[Roderick Usher]

Originally Posted by urgeok

1) I still cant get my head around how swiftly the internet rendered most reference books obsolete. You cant even give encyclopedias away anymore.
Dictionaries, Thesaurus, all found online. I dig the practicality but at the same time it makes me a little sad ... i remember early schooling activities where we had contests to see who could find a certain word first in the dictionary.
I remember how much i loved the old science and nature Time-Life series of books (which i still have and will always keep) but i doubt my son will look at them much longer. No more door to door encyclopedia salesmen ! (ok - i guess it's not all bad)

2) When you sent your kids to school with lunch - and on those odd days you didnt have (or they didnt want) balony, etc, for their sandwich - the old school standby was peanut butter and jam sammies.
Now - you cant take peanut butter to school so you dont kill someones kid.
Death by sandwich. you cant tale anything with peanuts - or any other nuts in them. boys are forced to wear hermetically sealed asbestos underwear !!
They're taking no chances !

they dont even want you eating it at home before school incase you have trace amounts on your hands, etc..


I dont remember s single solitary kid having a peanut allergy when i was a kid .. whats going on ??!!


I think of some more later .. i'm not thinking things so obvious as the CD/DVD and the generation who never knew any differently .. i'm thinking of the wierder more subtle changes i've seen.

My kid's class has a big ol unabridged dictionary (he told me he looked up "penis, vagina, shit and sex" the other day)

AND

I pack him a PBJ almost every day