My 9 year old daughter is working on a word problem in her math book. She asks me, "What's an encyclopedia?" I laughed before explaining.
She asked me if she had pronounced it correctly, since I had laughed. I told her she did pronounce it correctly, but I was laughing because she didn't know what it was!
Then I told her that when I was a kid, if we wanted information about a subject, I went to an encyclopedia, not the internet, since we didn't have that yet.
She looked at me with a bit of a sad look in her eyes, and said, "You poor thing." And I laughed harder.
She just can't fathom a life without the conveniences she is used to.
And here's another one...we were watching Fireproof on TV the other day. In the scene where Kirk Cameron smashes his computer, Ruthi was confused. She sees him smash the monitor, and then he puts the CPU tower in place to be smashed. When she sees it, she asks, "What is THAT?"
We ALL busted out laughing. It never occurred to me before that since she's been alive, we've only had laptops, so she wouldn't have a clue what that was! Now, her Poppy does still have a tower, but it's in a cabinet in his desk, so I guess she's never paid attention to it before.
Yes...this child is beginning to make me feel a bit OLD!
