Generation DVR
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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7 opinions for Generation DVR
Ashley
May 7, 2008 at 6:07 am
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?”
Tracee Sioux
May 7, 2008 at 6:09 am
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.
Ashley
May 7, 2008 at 6:24 am
LOL
Thrifty Karen
May 7, 2008 at 8:09 pm
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.
Ashley
May 8, 2008 at 6:17 am
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.
Tracee Sioux
May 8, 2008 at 7:20 am
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.
Thrifty Karen
May 8, 2008 at 7:26 am
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.
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