My 13-year-old niece: So, what should we do? We could listen to the radio.
My 7-year-old nephew: Radio?? What are we, forty?
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My 13-year-old niece: So, what should we do? We could listen to the radio.
My 7-year-old nephew: Radio?? What are we, forty?
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This is one of the bonuses of withholding smartphones and internet access from the kiddos: they think obsolete tech is SO COOL.
They have acquired a cassette recorder and a stack of blank cassettes, have their own very nice digital cameras, top-of-the-line Smith Corona electric typewriters, and are constantly busy with various projects using these things– filming action movies, typing up invoices, letters, and stories, secretly recording each other for blackmail purposes, endless fun for a fraction of the price 😉 I’d get them film cameras, but it’s difficult to find film and develop it, anymore. That whole industry has pretty much died.
They’ve been begging me for a record player for over a year now. I’m still waiting on a working model to turn up at the thrift store so I don’t have to pay $100 bucks for a new one. But we’ll get one, eventually.
They’re intrigued by the radio, but mostly bored by it, having explored all the local stations and found nothing of interest outside the weather band, which they are obsessed with. I overheard my eldest explaining the radio stations to his cousin recently:
11yo: “around that number is just a bunch of swearing with something sort of like music in the background”
cousin: “Oh, that’s rap.”
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