My kids don't know what a matchbook is...

[HaleyB]

I told them I would get one to show them.

I guess I will have to go to a bar
Parenthood, the sacrifices we make

 

[TammyJ]

HaleyB,

I had to explain to my DD 5 the other day what the ashtray in the car was. At first I simply said it was an ashtray. That was met with silence...followed by "But what do you do with it?" Then I had to explain to her about the cigarettes! I'm not willing to light one up to help satisfy her curiousity...but I'd love to go out for a drink...I mean to find a matchbook.

 

[susan1]

hi
reminds me of the time we went to my great aunts and my ds aged 4yrs saw her making tea. he wouldn't drink it. asked nicely if he could have a glass of milk . when we got home i asked why he wouldn't drink the tea, he explained that she was making it with earth from the garden. he had never seen loose tea only tea bags

 

[Maude4Disney]

When we were looking at houses a couple of years ago, one that we looked at was quite a bit older. It had a rotary dial phone on the wall and DS9(at the time) had no clue how to use it. The realtor let him dial our home number. It took a couple of attempts to get the dialing part down but it does make you stop and think about how times have changed.

 

[SheriN]

LOL I had to laugh at the rotary phone! We bought our house almost a year ago and it's also got a rotary phone installed on the wall. After months of being in the house the kids figured out it was a phone, and had to ask if it still worked, and how the heck did you dial the thing! LOL

I'm glad we have it though, because my 3yo decided he likes to pick it up and say "hello mommy" on it...with it being a rotary I've got no worries about him actually dialling someone before I can get to him!

 

[sara74]

My friend's kids were perplexed when Dad was eating corn on the cob this summer. He was doing the old typewriter method - eating across the row and returning back to the start with a 'ding'. Their 5 and 7 year old kids have never seen a typewriter! I can't wait to see what DD3 and DS1 have never seen!

 

[LoveBuzz2]

What about tapes? My son brought me a tape and asked if I'd put this "cd" in. DH had an old Starwars tape. I told him it was a tape. He looked at it like how in the world do you get the tape out for wrapping? LOL

 

[SheriN]

LOL Yes tapes, ah the wonderful joy of pulling the tape out and watchng it pool to the floor. Much fun for kids...not so for moms who have to wind it all back in.

Kids had no idea what they did was wrong. LOL

Which also reminds me...11yo ss had to do a project on someone in the family's history. So he did his dad. Talking about things dad did when he was his age, and boy was he blown away with the thought that we actually went outside and played even on the coldest days! And computers??? When dad was little they never heard of them...and it wasn't til I was in that 12-14 age range when the first personal computers came out! There's a 12 year age difference between dh and I. I can look around the room right now and see 4 computers, so our kids have no concept of doing without them

It's amazing the things kids take for granted now that either we never had, or only the lucky few had.

Sheri

 

[AuntPatti]

When I told my nephew that we didn't have bottled water or juice boxes when I was a kid, with much concern he asked "What did you drink?" The look on his face was priceless?

 

[JulieEck]

Love this thread!

We have one of those old timey looking record players with radio, tape and cd player also. I got some of the records that I listened too when I was a kid (Cinderalla, Peter Pan, etc. - read along book/record) and dd3 keeps calling it a cd. When I remind her it's called a record she says "record??" I've been wondering what else she won't have a clue about as she gets older and it is a lot of fun seeing life through her eyes!

 

[mco-missy]

My nephew (age13) wanted to know what the round "knob thing" was on the inside of the car door. I told him it was to roll down the window. He never knew you could roll down a car window- all the cars he had ever been in had automatic windows!