Husband was telling Daughter that we didn’t have television while we were growing up.
Pat came the question, ‘So how did you watch the telly, on the phone? Or on YouTube?’
After we stopped laughing, we told her that at her age, we didn’t even have a phone in the house, asking her, ‘Can you imagine how tough it must have been to call our friends and relatives?’.
‘So did you communicate using emails?’
It is funny how Daughter finds it so difficult to even understand how different lives were while we were growing up. She couldn’t bring her head around the fact that so many things that she uses on an everyday basis, was not even part of our lives, when we were her age.
So much so, that she had to ask, ‘So, did you feel like you were living in the olden times?’
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Sounds very very familiar 😆
Are you back from holiday?
Kind of……missed your blog, so was digging out things you did while I was away 😛
🙂 I was away too:)
Ummm yes, it was very olden times indeed 🙂 But golden times for sure. We had so much time to run around and spend time outside the house, make new friends, play with them, play different games. Why, even invent some. Listen to granny’s stories etc. Ah, now you opened a box of nostalgia.
🙂 They were fun times, weren’t they? I’m sure childhood memories will be special for everybody. Our children would (hopefully) say the same about theirs.
I’m sure they would. If they could have a sneak peek at ours they would probably find it boring 😛 Generation gap as you aptly said.
I know. She can’t understand what we did:)
Ha Ha Ha… I remember while growing up I wondered how sad my parents life would hv been minus radio, TV n stuff 😉 So the circle continues hu…
Yes:) And I think for each generation, it must feel so different from their own:)
I do think about this generation gap myself many times. I had thought of it before regarding the circumstances my parents grew up in, and now I look at what my daughter is growing up with…
I wonder how many years really can be termed a generation? 10 years?
I wonder! Things have been changing so quickly that even 10 years seem a long time. My cousins, the younger ones, seem to be in a generationnof their own! While me and me older cousins, even with a similar age gap seem to be more of the same generation…
LOL. On that thought, I find college kids these days so weird. Their dressing, talk, everything is so fancy. heh 😛 And I just addressed college crowd as kids! I sure am getting old fast.
Lol! I realized that I was getting old when I was older than all the achievers that came up in the news these days:)
Oh.. Ha ha .. But that was so cute and innocent of her.. Yes.. Little does she know that there were hardly any phones during our college days.. And tv was something we hardly got to watch.. I can understand that she wont believe we stayed in such an ancient period according to her.. Nice post.. Keep writing..
Welcome here! I like your name 🙂
I know! She finds it difficult to get her head around. She can’t imagine a life without all the technology that we are surrounded by.
My husband is still laughing after I read this out to him! Children…Great post!
LOL, Sandhya! I’m glad 🙂
I feel ancient. Tell her when she starts doing assignments that we didn’t have Google. Sigh!
I know! How on earth did we do our assignments in the good old days?
How cute !!! Kids these days are so smart and the kind of questions they ask.. i usually don’t have the right answers 😉
I’m not sure of smart or not, but yes, things are certainly different 🙂
We are fortunate to have seen both worlds.
We are indeed!
Jeez! I am a dinosaur eh?
ha ha! We all are! One time, she went on a field trip to a recreation of a Victorian place, and she came back and asked, ‘Was it the Victorian times when you were little?’
LOL. I can quite imagine the discussion happening. 🙂
🙂 I find it amazing sometimes that things have changed so much, so quickly.
So much has changed in the last 4 decades. But don’t we too are surprised when our grandparents tell us that their salary was 10 Rs a month. 🙂
Oh yes! That is life, I guess.
Interesting post.Every generation wonders how their ancestors lived.
Very true. For every generation, the way the previous generation’s life does seem so very different.
Sigh…yep. That’s me in 3-5 years time! 🙄 😛
🙂 I can’t wait 🙂
Haha.. I can picture her confused face. How different times really were.. I can’t imagine how my parents grew up with doordarshan being the only channel.
Pepper, that reminds me of how young you are 🙂 I grew up watching only doordarshan too 🙂
Haha I so understand. I guess every generation goes through this…… of having explain to their kids that their time wasn’t THAT old and they had fun too! 🙂
Absolutely!
Lol kids these days are exposed to many gadgets and tetchy stuff, yep we did live without them. But can’t imagine how it would be to do so now.
Oh yes! It is something they find difficult to imagine.
Sometimes, I long for the ‘old’ days – but of course without technology we wouldn’t be connecting! 🙂
I know! I can’t imagine how difficult it must have been for my parents to be so far away from theirs and have to rely on letters to communicate. Of course, the joy of receiving a long, detailed letter from a loved one, must have been unparalled, but still.