I tell my kids I used to have to walk two miles through the snow uphill just to get to the bus stop. Some of that is even true. But truthfully, times have changed, and I'm not even really that old.
Here's a comparison of what my kids have for entertainment versus what I had when I was a kid.
My Kids | Me as a Kid |
Ipod | AM Radio – Casey Kasem's Top 40, Records – We had a cool autoflip player thing (okay, that hardly ever worked), cassettes, reel-to-reel tape recorder |
Computer | Commodore Vic 20 |
Wii | Board Games, Football, Basketball, Tennis, |
Television | Television with 4 stations: ABC, NBC, CBS and PBS   |
Digital Video Recorder | Live television with 4 stations: Miss it and never see it again. |
DVDs | Talking about movies with friends who also haven't seen them. |
Internet | Not so much |
An update on my daughter's blog: Frustrated by blogger and blogspot web pages being blocked by default in Vista parental controls, she's not even trying to use it now. I think she can make modifications to her existing blog and get what she wants. She wants to create a new blog. Still working on her.
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