This last weekend we had an overnight visitor, an almost 3 year old grand daughter. Being adorable and precocious, she is 100% a child of this millennium.
We watched some “Wow wow wubsy” and “Dora the Explorer” and at one point she needed to do something (“Potty” I think) and she wanted to pause the show. Not having the DVR her parents have we couldn’t comply – she didn’t understand.
Later we found a kids movie on VHS tape but it was not rewound, she didn’t understand that we had to wait.
She called her mom and luckily we do not have a corder phone, she walked through every room in the house during the conversation – imagine her dilemma had our phone been attached by a 3 foot cord.
Then at bed time I asked her if she wanted to listen to one of my old time radio shows – a Popeye show. She got very concerned that there was no picture – it made so “nervous” (her latest favorite word) that we turned it off and told her a story.
Looking back at when my family got their first TV with three local stations, the amazingly small transistor radio when I was 10, using a computer for the first time at age 23 using a rotary dial phone and a modem built into a wooden box connected to an IBM Selectric typewriter, she will never believe all these things happened in my lifetime.
I can’t believe all the things that will happen in her lifetime.