(Yes, yes…I know that just because he’s now 30 and I’m still 29, the age difference doesn’t actually change but because I get to rub the fact that I’m younger by number for the next 5 or so months, I’m going to.)
Today is Jon’s 30th birthday, in case you haven’t figured that out yet. As in, the big 3-0.
I could spend this time making fun of him for finding a couple of grey hairs or make jokes about Peanut sharing her diapers with her old man, but instead I’ll talk about all the things that our little Peanut will never understand.
(circa…5 million years ago and pre-babies: just got engaged; Vegas trip; Dominican Republic vacation)
Peanut will never know what a VHS is or that a VHS player can “eat” a tape. The phrase “be kind, rewind” will never make any sense to her.
I’d love to introduce her to POGS some day but my POG-making machine (yes, I had one) is broken and I don’t think they sell them anymore. I also wonder how her life will shape without My little Pony, Care Bears, or a plain ol’ Barbie in hot pink heels.
There will pretty much never be a time that some sort of cartoon or tv show is not available to P. It’s not like she only has 6 channels and if one of those 6 channels isn’t playing a show appropriate for her age, well that’s just too bad. Long gone are the days of antenna televisions. I doubt that she’d ever understand why in the world someone would make a channel appear by using tin foil.
I think the phrase “walking for miles up hill in the snow” probably won’t make much sense to P since everyone has a can, most roads are paved, and children don’t walk to school unattended.
She’ll never have to “roll down a car window.” Or know what it’s like to drive a car that doesn’t have power steering.
Although I keep saying that we won’t buy her a phone until she’s 18, I doubt that’ll be the case since we don’t even have a house phone. With that, P will never know what it’s like to miss a call because of a busy tone or wait for mom and dad to hang up before she can use it.
Two words: dial up.
(pregnant with Peanut; now a daddy; expanding our family)
Children of the 80′s and 90′s….what will your kids never know?
I was thinking about this while I was walking last night.
*My mom would send me out to play and when the street lights came on it was time to head home for supper. And she wouldn’t even look for me before then.
*Riding a bike without a helmet and knee/elbow pads. I survived.
*Not wearing seatbelts in the car, because that’s what mom’s arm is for.
*Eating Halloween candy right after ringing the doorbell.
*Waiting and waiting by the radio for that one song to come on so you can record it on your cassette tape!
I could go on and on, but I’ll stop.
omg I think I still have “mix” tapes with the beginning of the songs cut off and the DJ at the end lol
I was trying to think of something different….having to go to the library to look something up in an Encyclopedia, and not just “googling” it on your smart phone! I am pretty sure My Little Pony, Care Bears and Barbies are still quite popular…although with a ton more accessories! Happy Birthday to Jon! I’ve got 9 more months until the big 3-0.
I was thinking that too Aimee. Writing research papers would have been so much easier if we had all that information online!! Kids now don’t have to search for that last source for hours in the library. lol
Happy Birthday to your husband! I turned 30 about a week before we found out that I was pregnant with Porter. I’ll be 35 this year and I have to say the 30s have been really great! I finally feel settled into life as a confident adult. I was born in 1978 and my children will never know what an 8 track tape looks like or how to wind the tape in a cassette with a pencil. My children will never know the delicate challenge of getting an TV antennae into just the right spot so a channel on a black and white TV comes in perfectly. My kids will never know a life without computers when I didn’t own a computer until I turned 18 and started college.
And my 2005 Chevy Cobalt totally has crank windows and Porter knows how to roll them up and down! (My car doesn’t have power locks either–I’m so Old School!)
You had a POG making machine? Why were you so much cooler than me???
There was always a fight in my house over who had to get up to change the channel. While we now have a remote at home (which Parker loves to chew on), I am proud to say we also have a TV antennae. Maybe there’s hope for us.
Jon shares his birthday with my sister so he’s already pretty awesome right there. Happy Birthday to your husband! Also, I totally have some of my mixed tapes still and it’s highly amusing to see what I wrote down as the song title on some of them when I didn’t know what the real title was. And yes, dial up internet and sometimes having to wait hours to get online because the line you were using was busy. Or how about just AOL in general-signing in and having chat rooms and profiles for your screen name.
I seriously just threw out three huge tubes of pogs last month. You are welcome to any that I might yet find.
This might be the most depressing post you’ve ever written. LOL
Nate will never know how it feels to need to find a payphone to call home and tell your mom where you are (or lie about where you are, lol). I’m pretty sure latchkey kids are illegal now. And along with tapes, kids will never know the joy of recording songs off the radio and trying to time it perfectly so you didn’t get the DJ in there.
I have seen My Little Pony and Care Bears in the stores again.
I miss Rainbow Brite and She-Ra.
She will also never know a world without internet or some type of magical electronic device that can access all kinds of information. Remember when having an Apple at school was mindblowing? Oregon Trail and Where in the World is Carmen San Diego. Oh yeah!!!!
They will never know about passing notes in class or in the hall to friends. We even perfected the neat ways to fold the paper up!
Text messaging has taken that away!
I wonder all this stuff too! Kids now dont know what they are missing….kind of sad.
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I love the reminiscing about “the good ole days”, I’m actually 10 years older than you but I think of these same things all the time. My daughter is 4 and she loves My Little Pony and Care Bears, she even likes to watch the DVD’s.