Raising digital native kids when you’re a kid of the 70’s or 80’s can be a challenging thing.
While we grew up with VHS machines, taping songs from the radio and ‘mood rings’ being the best wearable tech available, our kids are all about movie streaming, iTunes and smartphones.
Here we take a humorous look at the differences between the Analogue kids of the 80’s and the Digital natives of today.
Analogue Kids…
- Write deepest darkest thoughts in a hidden diary with a miniature lock on the cover.
- School photos are nearly always terrible.
- Spend hours painting coffee and burning edges of paper for a history assignment.
- Have embarrassing photo albums filled with self-conscious poses.
- School assignments begin in the encyclopedia section of the library.
- Get in trouble for being on the home phone for too many hours to their friends.
- Avoid the apple packed in their lunchbox.
- Waste time by practicing their signature on bits of paper.
- Know how to rewind a tape by using just a pen.
- Show their multi-tasking skills by deftly hitting play and record at the same time with considerable finger-strength.
Digital Natives…
- Write deepest darkest thoughts on Facebook with next to no privacy settings in place.
- School photos are nearly always airbrushed.
- Can whip up a Powerpoint presentation for History class in about 10 minutes.
- Have endless selfies with just the right amount of squinching.
- Know that Google is the holy grail of all information and the key to all school assignments.
- Get in trouble for being on Snapchat until 1am.
- Have a hardwired ability to understand and operate any Apple product.
- Waste time searching for just the right emoticon.
- Instinctively know how to fix any glitch on any smartphone ever made.
- Show their multi-tasking skills by texting, instant messaging, Skyping and watching TV all at the same time.
What are some of the funniest differences you’ve noticed about analogue versus digital kids?
Source : parents[dot]nickjr[dot]com[dot]au
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