OMG I guess I was born in the stone age according to my son

[jessica31876]

The conversation went like this:

Him:Mom are you looking at the keyboard when you type?
Me:No Nickolas I have been typing for a long time. Since I was in the 6th grade.
Him:Oh that was a long time ago. How many words can you type in a minute?
Me:About 50-60 (which I know is not a whole lot compared to some people)
Him (about five minutes later): What did you learn to type on mom? One of those old timey typewriters?
Me:No Nick we had computers back then (Apple computer I believe) although we also had typewriters as well.
Him:Wow they had computers way back then? LOL

I could not respond to that one.

[jessica31876]

oh yea my son is all of 13 years old...so I was 21 when I had him!!

[Ebony]

*snort* kids. :p

[Paula]

ROFL My kids were shocked when they found out that I drove a car to school. What the heck did they think I drove? LOL

[schock77]

My 7 year old son told me the other day that I was born in the 1900's... while technically correct (late 1970s), you know I had to straighten that one out!

[Paula]

LOL Stephanie!! My kids tell all of their friends that I was live during Woodstock. Yes, I was all of three years old. Like I really remember it. LOL

[Laura_A]

So funny! The other night I had this conversation with my 8-year-old...

Regan: Mom, were you allowed to have your cell phone in the halls when you were in high school?
Me: Baby, we didn't have cell phones when I was in high school.
Regan: Then what did you have...walkie talkies?
Me: Haha.. we had a paper and pencil... we wrote notes to each other.
Regan: Wow, that must have been hard.

[Paula]

LOL Laura!!

[schock77]

Love it... our talk is about how cartoons were only on for two hours Saturday mornings and we couldn't dvr anything. And no internet, etc. Gosh... now I AM feeling ancient!

[Leila]

My 7 year old son told me the other day that I was born in the 1900's... while technically correct (late 1970s), you know I had to straighten that one out!

JP tried that with me a few weeks ago. He said, "Mommy, you just don't understand kids, you were born in the last century...in the 1900s!!" So I looked him and said, "And your birthday is when?" He attempted to get away with it by saying, "So, it was two weeks away from 2000! Close enough!" Let's just say he was quite bummed to find out that 2001 was the first year of the new century. (Yes, I know not everyone agrees with that.)

[jessica31876]

LOL I just felt ancient tonight because my son told me that Journey, Foreigner, Reo Speedwagon, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin & alot of my favorite groups/singer growing up are for old people. In fact I think he used the words "those groups are ancient mom". I wonder what he would think if he found out I did not get my first cd & cd player until I was in my late teens and still had alot of my favorites on cassettes into my 20's. Gosh I even wonder if my kids even have a clue what a record or a cassette is!!

[Sharon Kay]

Wonder what your son would think if he knew when I was in high school ... yes we had those old typewriter thingys ... actually that is what I learned on in JUNIOR HIGH (I know...what's a JUNIOR high?) ... we only had a card reader in high school and I didn't go anywhere near it ... little did I know that computers were going to be my true love only 3 years later!

Gee jessica you should send your son to our house ... My 21 yo ds loves Foreigner and Styx ... in fact the first REAL concert I took him and his bf was to Styx! My 16yo and 15yo ds listen to Journey and Foreigner on their Ipods... and I have some of "their music" like Matchbox 20 on mine!!

...and come to our house ... we have 2 jukeboxes in our living room that dh has restored ... one plays 78's and the other plays 45's ... so my boys are usually the first to correct other kids on what "records" are ... or what the difference is between the different types like 45's, 33 1/3, and 78's! hee hee

We used to have 3 pinball machines that dh worked on until oldest ds wanted his own private room and dh built one down in the basement and had to get rid of the pinballs.

He'd probably think we are ancient ... lol ...btw when did woodstock happen...was I around??

[adrianka]

Girls, you crack me up.

[Buggie185]

I LOVE this conversation LOL!
When we were kids if we would have seen people talking out loud all by themselves with a little thing attached to their ear we would have thought they were a little crazy.

[Sharon Kay]

I LOVE this conversation LOL!
When we were kids if we would have seen people talking out loud all by themselves with a little thing attached to their ear we would have thought they were a little crazy.

Isn't that back when they used to lock them up when we saw this? ;)

[Buggie185]

LOL! We wold have gawked and tried not to giggle, and our mother's would have told us, "it's not polite to stare." Now kids would just say, "cool bluetooth" - oh wait... they probably wouldn't use the word cool would they?

[Valgal]

So funny! The other night I had this conversation with my 8-year-old...

Regan: Mom, were you allowed to have your cell phone in the halls when you were in high school?
Me: Baby, we didn't have cell phones when I was in high school.
Regan: Then what did you have...walkie talkies?
Me: Haha.. we had a paper and pencil... we wrote notes to each other.
Regan: Wow, that must have been hard.

LMAO! That is tooooo funny. I literally LOL'ed.

And I DID learn how to type on a regular typewriter, then later a PC. My kids have the hardest time understanding that we didn't have cartoons to watch all day, everyday of the week. Only on Saturday till noon!

[jessica31876]

Oh gosh I did not get my first cell phone until I was in my late 20's now some of my friends kids are 7 years old and have a phone. Some of them even have I-phones or Droids. WTH? At 6 or 7? Who do they have to call aside from their parents? I dont even remember really using a phone until I was in at least 5th grade which was about 11 or 12 and even then I had a time limit on the phone because there was no such thing as call waiting. or at least we didnt have it. And if you wanted to know who was on the phone you actually had to answer the phone. Thats right no such thing as caller ID. I do not think most kids could deal growing up without the stuff they have now. Oh and we were lucky as kids we had a video game. An Atari!! With the most basic graphics but we LOVED it!! I wish we still had an Atari. A real one. Im sure my kids would get bored with it in minutes.

[Jengerbread88]

Hahaha, that's funny.

I had this conversation with my cousin:

(Spencer is playing his GameCube, which, oddly, is kind of outdated nowadays... haha)
Me: Wow... I haven't played a video game since Atari.
Spencer: What's an Atari?

....ouch. WHAT is an ATARI?! Geez...

[hollyxann]

I'll have you know that I am only 25 yrs old and in high school, my computer teacher made us learn keyboarding on a typewriter. Obviously a new-ish typewriter but it was still a typewriter. She would make us tape a piece of paper over the keyboard and put our hands underneath it so we couldn't see the keys. And thats how we learned keyboarding.

[jessica31876]

we had typewriters too. They were pretty nice ones. I know they were electric and had all kinds of good stuff the one I had at home did not have (which was my grandmas). So we did learn on typewriters but we also learned on computers as well. We had Apple computers back then. Honestly it was so long ago I can barely remember the computers. They were not nearly as nice as what we have today and we only had so many for the school so we had to share computers with other classes. I dont think kids realize how much they really have in school nowadays. I know my kids have computers in the library at their school and every siingle class has several computers if not one for each kid (in classes which are computer related they do anyhow)

I'll have you know that I am only 25 yrs old and in high school, my computer teacher made us learn keyboarding on a typewriter. Obviously a new-ish typewriter but it was still a typewriter. She would make us tape a piece of paper over the keyboard and put our hands underneath it so we couldn't see the keys. And thats how we learned keyboarding.