December is the month we slow down with our schooling. We will still do some, but we’ll be done by lunch every day. I need to do some organizing right now (I’m getting off this computer very soon) so I’m letting my kids watch a movie (it’s too cold to play outside: SNOW!).
They put in a VHS tape instead of a DVD. The VHS tape was in the middle and needed to be rewound. My children, who can work an iPod better than I can, know how to get to any scene they want to on any DVD available, and love Photo Booth on the computer, are completely stuck when it comes to rewinding a VHS tape.
Conversation:
Kids: “Mom, we need you!”
Me: “Yes?”
Kids: “Look – The movie is in the middle. We can’t get it to start over.”
Me: (I punched the button to switch the remote to VHS, pushed “stop” and “rewind”)
Kids: “Wow! How did you do that?”
Yep, there’s still some magic left in old school technology. Wait until I introduce them to the audio cassette. Yeah, baby.
Half-Pint House 
My kids don’t understand why we can’t pause, record, rewind everything like we do with our DVR. Even I do it: I was at a drive-thru and I couldn’t understand the person talking through the speaker. My first thought was “rewind”.
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Wow, the things our kids admire in us.
Happy Advent.
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Yes, but the magic ends when the VCR starts eating your tapes. Three cheers for the DVD player!
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Ha!
I’m in the process of trying to convert some family video from analog to DVD….when I have to stop and rewind the entire tape I’m so annoyed. I guess in 2008 I’m so used to just pressing the “back” button and going right to the beginning in a matter of nanoseconds!
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THAT is hilarious. Laughed outloud.
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Better still, break out the record player. 😀
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How about an 8 track tape??? 🙂
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