Old School Life vs. The Kiddos

There's nothing worse than talking to a child and when you mention He-Man, they look at you like you just switched to Spanish. You talk about playing GI Joe as a kid and they say, "Oh, you mean from that movie?" Well, actually I meant from the 1980s cartoons, but okay...

If you mention The Beatles, they'll think gross little bugs. Nothing existed before the PlayStation 2 - and that's a dinosaur. There was no life before cell phones. Computers have always been around. The Internet was created on the Eighth Day.

I like to hip the kiddos to the fact that everything they deem materialistically worthy today, was around long before they were gleams in eyes, but now the stuff is just newer and shinier. Kinda like the exact opposite as in the Star Wars saga where as time goes on, things get older and dirtier.

So, without further ado, here's a list of things from back in our day that the kiddos should know about...

1. The Star Wars saga (obviously)
2. Nintendo NES (so they can fully appreciate the Wii, Xbox360 and PlayStation 3)
3. GI Joe and Transformers were '80s cartoons and comics before they were movies
4. Legos used to be just an uneventful rainbow mess of blocks in plastic tubs
5. He-Man and The Masters of the Universe
6. We used to have something called "VHS" and "video tapes" before DVD players
7. Life was perfectly livable when the Internet didn't consume us all because there was something called "outside"