21st Century Kids

Recently, I've been reminded that my kids are being raised in "modern" times. Not quite to the extent where I feel the need to tell them about "walking to school, uphill, in a blizzard..." (that wouldn't totally be true, anyway!). Nonetheless, I am aware that in many ways their lives are different, simply because of the era into which they were born!

One of the first times I can recall thinking about this was when I was looking at an alphabet poster with Madelynne. She was maybe 2 or 3 and when we came to the letter Q, there was a picture of a quarter. She guessed it was a DVD! :-)

The other day, the girls were playing in their room and I heard them reciting some sort of commercial...as if they were hosts of a TV show. The funniest part to me was hearing them say: "Find more stories and games. Click on www-DOT-12-dancing-princesses-DOT-com!". I remember, LONG ago, playing with my sister and recording "commercials" on the good old cassette tape recorder!

Finally, I had taken the girls grocery shopping with me and, in the search for the BIGGEST watermelon, somehow we mistakenly put a SEEDED watermelon into the cart. As a kid, seeded watermelons were the only kind I knew existed...but my kiddos have been raised on seedless! At home, the kids couldn't get over how many BIG BLACK seeds were in there! After eating it for a few days, Lukas lamented, "This is just TOO much work to eat...getting all of those seeds outta there!!!"