Mum what are these?
I was out shopping the other day with Olivia, having a browse around the local charity shops and Olivia was looking at the kids toys and dvd’s when she picked up something she had never seen before. A Video tape!
“What’s this mum?”
She asked looking a little bit puzzled,
“Well, it’s a video” I told her “What we watched films on before DVD’s”
Oh, she said.
“What do you mean before Dvd’s? ”
?????
“Well before DVD’s were invented, we watched videos”
I started laughing, then I started to feel just a little bit old!
My child doesn’t know a world before dvd’s, before a time where you could access the internet from a home pc or laptop. She would never know what it was like to have to traipse off to the local library to do homework research, in the days before Google.
She is born into a generation of technology where children have mobile phones not have to sit by the home phone. To play games on an Ipod, yes she has one that does everything except make calls but she can video chat!, to surf the internet when she is bored and watch videos on You Tube. To have to choice to not only build friendships in real life but in the virtual world too.
She will never know the frustration of having to run to the loo, or to get a drink during the adverts, thanks to the invention of sky+, scared of missing your favourite programme, no on demand services when I was growing up!
She doesn’t even know why we have CD’s! I had to explain that to her too! But why she said when you can just put the Ipod or your phone on! Oh dear!
I wonder if in years to come Olivia will have to explain the Ipod or mobile phones to her children, what will she grow up with in the future that will be a totally alien concept to her children and possibly me in my senior years?
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It really does make you feel old doesn't it!
I have had this thought before that my children won't know cassette, records or vhs, it really does make me think how old I am , a different generation. #sharewithme
haha oh my gosh!!! Nice way to make all us mummies feel old 🙂 Great post!!! x
Thank you! It's a horrible feeling isn't it but I suppose kids have a way of making us feel old! x
I just want to share this with you>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLwnD0jwK0yymKsniXGb3IQoNmjhGGlE9K&v=Uk_vV-JRZ6E#t=128
kids reacting to what a walkman is =P
So funny. Yes it is a bit weird that they are reacting that way. Amaze of how things before DVD. But we are I think reacting to our parents stuff too when we are kids. I can only imagine the technology when are kids are the parents already! #sharewithme
I will have a look at this on my phone media doesn't work on my laptop thank you. I wonder what will be classed as 'old' when my daughter is grown up!
It is really horrible how old you feel isn't it! x
Hhahaa that just made me feel really really old too! lol Isn't it weird our kids won't understand pre internet and pre cell phones. There weren't cell phones when I was growing up. except those big box things. lol Too funny. Great post. Thanks for linking up to Share With Me. #sharewithme
It really made me feel my age too! Imagine that life pre internet! I am older than the internet! She actually shares her birthday with twitter same day same year x
hahaha! this makes me feel SO old! (but then I AM old…) 😀 Our kids will have NO concept of pre-internet!
Haha I am on a mission now to dig out some old things like a record player just to see what she thinks they are! Thanks for your comment x
My 12 year old asked me how old I was when I got my first Facebook account the other day. When I told her they didn't exist when I was a kid and that internet hadn't even been invented me, she just couldn't get her head around it ! Show her a picture of the old Vic 20 computers – that will blow her mind ! lol
Calling over from Share with me !