Generation DVR
May 7, 2008 by Tracee Sioux
Filed under Parenting
My 2-year-old has taken to expressing indignation at all commercials.
He hands us the remote and demands that we fast forward.
Even my 6-year-old daughter, Ainsley, is confused about how this happened.
It’s LIVE TV Zack. You have to watch the commercials. Geez, she’ll tell him.
I mean, hasn’t everyone on the planet lived with commercials since television was invented?
Everyone except the new people who have never known television without a DVR, I guess.
It’s a unique generational experience. I am grateful for the miraculous invention that has revolutionized television and that I can get for only $5 a month. I experience a little glee every time I hit fast forward.
He’s watching the same program and wondering what idiot invented commercials in the first place and why anyone would put up with it.
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My five year old is like that with an old school phone.. When we go to my grandmother’s he looks at it like “Whaa?”
It’s so funny the difference between what we have to learn “How do you turn the sound off on the computer” and what children intuitively know – my 6 year old totally knew how to do it and thought I was rather “slow” not to automatically know.
LOL
I can’t help but feel like I’m spoiling my children when they say, “Let me see!” after I take their picture with my digital camera. I’m thinking in my mind that we didn’t have all of these modern conveniences when I was growing up and how much different things are today. I’m sure my mom thought the same thing of us though.
I know! Mine do the same thing and it’s like impossible to take some really good pictures because they pose real quick and then break-neck it up to me to see the result. Remember the excitement of going to Wal-Mart and picking up pictures (in an actual paper envelope)? My mom and I would stand in the aisle and look through them seeing which ones turned out good and which ones were duds. Our children are definately growing up in a ‘right-now’ time.. There’s no delay of gratification in any area of their lives.
I still have a 35 mm for my “real” picture taking. My kids look at me like I’m a real backwards hoakie when they ask to see the pictures and I tell them they can’t.
Get a better camera Mom! Geez.
I still have a 35 mm too. I just recently stopped using it because my hubby bought me a digital. Now we both have digital cameras.
We only have cell phones in our house though. I have to wonder what my kid’s perception will be of growing up in a house without a land line. Things are so much different now.