Comments on: When the world plays telephone with ideas https://lauravanderkam.com/2016/04/when-the-world-plays-telephone-with-your-idea/ Writer, Author, Speaker Tue, 17 Apr 2018 14:04:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Ana https://lauravanderkam.com/2016/04/when-the-world-plays-telephone-with-your-idea/#comment-31949 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 13:42:23 +0000 http://lauravanderkam.staging.wpengine.com/?p=6038#comment-31949 In reply to lauravanderkam.

Our kids can’t fathom the concept of the radio either, since we usually just listen to music on demand….they keep wanting to “skip that song” and “play this song”.

]]> By: Katherine B https://lauravanderkam.com/2016/04/when-the-world-plays-telephone-with-your-idea/#comment-31948 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 12:53:51 +0000 http://lauravanderkam.staging.wpengine.com/?p=6038#comment-31948 In reply to lauravanderkam.

What about there only being three TV channels, and them not being on air all the time i.e. no morning TV and closedown at 11 p.m.? I know I am showing my age (52) and maybe it was different in the US even then – I am British – but it didn’t seem that bad to us at the time! I certainly got to read loads of books and play outside a lot too, just friends out on our own.

]]> By: lauravanderkam https://lauravanderkam.com/2016/04/when-the-world-plays-telephone-with-your-idea/#comment-31947 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 12:12:11 +0000 http://lauravanderkam.staging.wpengine.com/?p=6038#comment-31947 In reply to Revanche.

@Revanche – possibly apocryphal, yes, but very funny!

]]> By: lauravanderkam https://lauravanderkam.com/2016/04/when-the-world-plays-telephone-with-your-idea/#comment-31946 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 12:10:55 +0000 http://lauravanderkam.staging.wpengine.com/?p=6038#comment-31946 In reply to Lindsey.

@Lindsey – the idea of only watching TV at the time it comes on is the one that gives my kids the most trouble. The few times we’ve been in a hotel or rental house and I turn on Disney Jr. and they say something like “we don’t want Little Einsteins, we want Doc McStuffins!” and I explain that the only thing on is what the Disney corporation is showing, they are aghast. Or the idea that we waited a whole year to watch Wizard of Oz when it aired, and you had to go to the bathroom during the commercials.

]]> By: Lindsey https://lauravanderkam.com/2016/04/when-the-world-plays-telephone-with-your-idea/#comment-31945 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 01:36:16 +0000 http://lauravanderkam.staging.wpengine.com/?p=6038#comment-31945 Re. the rotary phone… on a related note, my 5 yo daughter can’t BELIEVE that
1) I didn’t have access to an iPad as a kid
2) iPads didn’t exist when I was a kid
2) I could only watch TV shows at the time they were on

I think a rotary phone might make her head explode!

]]> By: D https://lauravanderkam.com/2016/04/when-the-world-plays-telephone-with-your-idea/#comment-31944 Wed, 27 Apr 2016 22:02:46 +0000 http://lauravanderkam.staging.wpengine.com/?p=6038#comment-31944 In reply to lauravanderkam.

My first reaction was, “I know what cc stands for!!” And then I remembered I’m 31. Oops.

]]> By: Revanche https://lauravanderkam.com/2016/04/when-the-world-plays-telephone-with-your-idea/#comment-31943 Wed, 27 Apr 2016 19:12:06 +0000 http://lauravanderkam.staging.wpengine.com/?p=6038#comment-31943 This reminds me of a (possibly apocryphal) story I heard in college from an English professor. T.S. Eliot was receiving an honorary doctorate from a university and he sat in on an English class that was discussing The Wasteland. The students and professors were working their way through the poem, discussing allegory and meaning and so on. He finally spoke up to clarify what “the author meant” and one of the students stridently corrected him!

That must have felt … odd!

]]> By: lauravanderkam https://lauravanderkam.com/2016/04/when-the-world-plays-telephone-with-your-idea/#comment-31942 Wed, 27 Apr 2016 16:58:35 +0000 http://lauravanderkam.staging.wpengine.com/?p=6038#comment-31942 In reply to Ana.

@Ana – one of the toy companies re-issued a lot of the vintage toys like the phone. I picked up a few at Target this Christmas – I’m sure it’s more for the parents than the kids : )

]]> By: lauravanderkam https://lauravanderkam.com/2016/04/when-the-world-plays-telephone-with-your-idea/#comment-31941 Wed, 27 Apr 2016 16:56:52 +0000 http://lauravanderkam.staging.wpengine.com/?p=6038#comment-31941 In reply to Christina.

@Christina- oh, that’s funny – 3D printing the icon! For another fun conversation, try asking anyone under 30 what “cc” stands for.

]]> By: Ana https://lauravanderkam.com/2016/04/when-the-world-plays-telephone-with-your-idea/#comment-31940 Wed, 27 Apr 2016 16:51:12 +0000 http://lauravanderkam.staging.wpengine.com/?p=6038#comment-31940 Yeah, I’ve seen the 10,000 hours one garbled quite a bit over the past few years. I like the analogy to “telephone”, not everyone goes to the primary source to write their article or talking point, and along the way little changes/misinformation start to pile up. I think those toys are still ubiquitous enough that my kids can recognize that it is a phone, even though they have no idea how to use it.

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