4 things from our childhood kids think are older than dinosaurs
by Charlie Brooks posted in Parenting
Times change, and while some iconic images last forever, others fade away. I?m becoming acutely aware that there are some things in my childhood media that my kids will never really understand. These tropes only really made sense in a certain time period, and that time has passed.
This change in popular consciousness is one reason why I?m not enamored with A Christmas Story. It just doesn?t represent my childhood the way it did for my parents. The movie relies on its audience sharing certain experiences, and I never listened to Little Orphan Annie or drank my Ovaltine.
So what will be our kids? A Christmas Story" It?s hard to say what might find a niche in the public consciousness and stick around, but I?m pretty sure kids will never quite understand these things when they pop up in old media: Pay phones
One of my favorite tiny jokes in Little Shop of Horrors is when the giant plant makes a call on a pay phone. After hanging up, it checks the coin return slot, despite having no use for money.
When we watched this with our kids, my wife and I laughed. Our kids looked at us, waiting for us to explain the joke. We couldn?t, really. Pay phones are just an anachronism now. Superman has to find somewhere else to change his clothes.
Typewriters
This isn?t even a kid thing ?- in a college course I?m taking, the teacher felt the need to explain what a typewriter is. They?re like computers with no memory and no backspace. More than likely...
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