While watching the Giants game yesterday, Malcolm asked if I could pause the game so that he could to the bathroom. While he was in the bathroom peeing all over the place, I got to thinking how different his life growing up is drastically different than mine. When I was a kid, I had to either hold it until a commercial break or turn the sofa into my own little cat box. What a difference technology makes!
Now, even the rides at Disneyland are in 3-D!
I laughed every time my parents began a sentence, “Back in my day…” I promptly tuned out whatever story followed, things like walking to school in the snow, working exhausting sumer jobs, or taking down water buffalos to feed the family for the winter. Now, I get it. Kids in each generation do and say things the previous generation never thought possible and this crop of kids are no different. Here are the things that Malcolm says that I find utterly ridiculous:
Can I watch shark videos on your phone now?
At the farmer’s market, can we go to the Afghani booth first?
This is my favorite website!
Can I put on another tattoo today?
I want another gummy vitamin.
Can we go on a long car ride? (Well, he has never technically said this, but you’d think he would have considering every long car trip means that he happily gets to watch movies on his portable DVD player.)
Me: Do you want to go play golf today? Him: Real golf, or Wii golf at Jack’s house?
I don’t like the strawberry toothpaste, can we get bubble gum next time?
And on and on and on. Personally, I am waiting for the invention which helps your kid actually hit the toilet when they go to the bathroom, but then again, I’m a dreamer. Do your kids ever make you shake your head in disbelief?
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I realized the other day that my sons have grown up thinking a blackberry is a hand-held gadget and with no idea that the fruit actually exists.
Should be a good laugh when someone offers the a blackberry to eat.
“You don’t eat blackberries! You make calls on them!”
My now 3 year old son practically grew up with my iPod Touch and it’s slick, “button-less” design. Fast forward several months when he was handed a normal cell phone with a keypad, he attempted to use it by holding it upside down and flicking his thumb on the screen (it wasn’t touchscreen). Also, it seems my daughter can’t accomplish homework without “internet” to look up answers.
Good post!
Thanks! Funny how cell phones aren’t even new to these kids, its the second generation swipe screens that are all the rage…
I loved that Malcolm kept wanting to pause our TV (Someday these backwoods hillbillies will get TiVo — just a little more convincing and Regina will be on board). Amy would just turn it off and say, “Okay, it’s paused.”
That’s the old school way to do it.