Things our LO's won't know/have

valerieanne9015 · October 2012

I was thinking about this the other day and thought I would see what all of you could come up with.

What things from your childhood, will your LO not know about, or experience?

Going to a restaurant and being asked, "smoking or non?" WI is smoke free so LO will most likely neve be asked that.

Hand drawn cartoons, almost all cartoons are computer generated now.

smilelari · October 2012

Sitting in the front seat of the car

NineTwentyOhEight · October 2012

bad photos. in my parents' attic there are BOXES of photos and negatives (another thing!) and only like 1/10 is frame/album worthy, the rest are in boxes...now we just delete the bad ones, so they won't know the horror of unflattering photos! I'm saving some weird/bad ones just for fun.

I had a walkman, then a discman as a kid.

I was watching an old episode of Roseanne the other day where someone in the kitchen was on the phone and all the kids/other family members were getting wrapped up in the super long cord. Remember that?

valerieanne9015 · October 2012

NineTwentyOhEight:

bad photos. in my parents' attic there are BOXES of photos and negatives (another thing!) and only like 1/10 is frame/album worthy, the rest are in boxes...now we just delete the bad ones, so they won't know the horror of unflattering photos! I'm saving some weird/bad ones just for fun.

I had a walkman, then a discman as a kid.

I was watching an old episode of Roseanne the other day where someone in the kitchen was on the phone and all the kids/other family members were getting wrapped up in the super long cord. Remember that?

That's a good one! I've thought abotu that when looking at play kitchens etc. that have phones on them, I'm surprised they aren't cordless!

What about TGIF and Saturday morning cartoons. I think there are so many kids channels out there that fun special things like this are gone. I used to looooove watching TGIF everyweek!

Rosebud2587 · October 2012

Double buckling with their sibling or friend (in the front seat).

mbgreenwalt · October 2012

Film cameras and 1 cent gum balls.

ewilliams1127 · October 2012

Cassette tapes, VHS, Betamax yes I still have one that works!, pay phones, and typewriters.

It's funny to think about it! The oldies station here in Cincy plays 70's music. That makes me feel OLD! So when our LO's are teenagers they will be playing Justin Beiber and One Direction on the Oldies lol.

varkeyr · October 2012

one TV in the house and only catching 3 stations if we were lucky it was clear.

riding on back of a friend's bike without a helmet

riding in the back of the station wagon.

Drive in movies

Vieve831 · October 2012

passing notes in class

Encyclopedias

I'm sure they'll still have books but I imagine e-readers will be much more popular

non-flat screen tv's

ellehinck · November 2012

Life without the internet! 'In my day, we had to look things up in BOOKS!' Ha ha.

mbgreenwalt · November 2012

ellehinck:
Life without the internet! 'In my day, we had to look things up in BOOKS!' Ha ha.

DH and I were just joking that we'll get to tell our children and grandchildren that we were alive when the internet was invented and what life was like before it.

turtlewifey · November 2012

Having to pre-set to VCR to record a show or movie if you weren't going to be home for it.

JamiesWife2010 · November 2012

turtlewifey:
Having to preset to VCR to record a show or movie if you weren't going to be home for it.nbsp;

This!
Making mixed tapes by recording songs off the radio.

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