Parents are dinosaurs
This happened a while ago, but I haven't gotten around to writing about it until now.
Samantha was taking a dance class at the Y a few months back, and at their last session the kids were going to do a mini-recital for all of the parents. Their instructor asked the kids to wear as much black as possible to make their costumes look better (they were bees, I think), and Sam informed me in the car on the way home that she would need black tights, a black ballet tutu, black ballet slippers, etc.
I told her I wasn't sure we'd be able to get all of those things, because I wasn't sure where to find some of them. She looked at, rolled her eyes, and in a tone of great exasperation said: "But dad, can't you just look it up on Google?"
She's five.
My five year old knows about Google. She's never known a world without cell phones, voice dialing, dvd's, TiVo, the net, and digital cameras.
Parents are such dinosaurs.
Samantha was taking a dance class at the Y a few months back, and at their last session the kids were going to do a mini-recital for all of the parents. Their instructor asked the kids to wear as much black as possible to make their costumes look better (they were bees, I think), and Sam informed me in the car on the way home that she would need black tights, a black ballet tutu, black ballet slippers, etc.
I told her I wasn't sure we'd be able to get all of those things, because I wasn't sure where to find some of them. She looked at, rolled her eyes, and in a tone of great exasperation said: "But dad, can't you just look it up on Google?"
She's five.
My five year old knows about Google. She's never known a world without cell phones, voice dialing, dvd's, TiVo, the net, and digital cameras.
Parents are such dinosaurs.
posted by Matt | 6:19 AM
1 Comments:
Joanna saw my new cell phone and promptly informed me that it was a cell phone. Then she took it from me and ran around using the camera feature. I'd never owned a camera phone before so I was a bit stunned that she was so immediately knowledgable and proficient with the thing.
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