Our eldest grandson has just turned seventeen. I think next year all our grandchildren will be teenagers, they are either growing so fast we can't keep up with their age...or is it that we are getting older and having seniors moments and just forgetting?  To our memory it seems only a couple of years ago we were focusing on baby shower invitations from invitationbox.com.

Now the grandchildren are young adults. 
With Christmas only three moths away I find I am looking for young adult gifts for them, not children's toys. 

What do you give teenage grandchildren for Christmas?

I know I can always please them by giving them money...sometimes I do.  I far prefer to take the risk of not choosing what they want and selecting a gift.  Sometimes I have given an iTunes card and watch for when they are on special. Often I give a gift card to a book store or computer games shop.  My favorite gift had been a book. With the iBook revolution and my grandchildren moving to iReaders even that has become a redundant gift in my family.

I was delighted when the catch of the day, on line shopping people I bought my iMac computer from had a special on brand name gift boxed gold pens with a recommended retail value of $54.95 for only $12.95 with a limit of 5 per customer.  Now I don't know if a gold pen is going to excite an older grandchild as much as the latest whiz bang computer game or $50. to spend, but I just saved myself $200. which I could sure use right now and it is a practical gift that should be something they might grow to like, if not love.  I know how I love a good brand name, smooth flowing ink pen.

I assume that today's computer generation 'kids,' still use pens. 

Well...do they?