"...the perfect IM-ing, texting & twittering back-to-school phone..."

[SoCalDem]

Oh GAWD.. I am SO glad I am not a high school teacher :)

When I heard this commercial, I could not help wondering what I, as a teenager in 1966, would have thought if I had heard that commercial script :rofl:

We knew all about 'How'd ya like a Hawaiian Punch?" & Breck shampoo & Ipana toothpaste & "Just Wonderful" hairspray:)

No one could have imagined a tiny phone thingie you took everywhere.. we had lunchbox sized transistor radios that were totally banned from school:)

[Skink]

1. Whatever it is you can't drive with it.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. My niece just HAD TO have the first gen Ipod Touch

just HAD TO because of the web ahem, twittering, possibilities. I got a second gen to replace my PDA...

I just went, kid you just got an IPOD classic six months ago... you know how much these things COST?

I saved for my IPOD for over a year...

And as a teacher... I know the new age of cheating in class has gone to whole new levels. I'd forbid them things in school, but that is just me.

[Neecy]

19. Kids today take cheating to a whole new level

I do some work on the side doing voice transcriptions for a service where people call in and we text them back answers to their questions.

When school starts it gets outrageously busy, because everyone's calling in with their homework assignments. I really dread the long math questions, but hell, they pretty much cover all of the subjects. I never had such "help" when I was a kid!

I'll just add that parents who give young children unrestricted use of a cell phone have no idea what their kids are doing with them. At least half of the non-school year questions I get are of a graphic, detailed sexual nature - don't they teach sex ed anymore?

[nadinbrzezinski]

20. WOW I knew of the papers for hire in College

you are right, they have taken it to a whole new level.

There are days I am glad my "kids" have feathers and will not go to college, or any school for that matter.

The help I got when I was growing up was... my mom hired somebody to help me with math... ADD kid, 2+2 =5 truly. really... I did those stupid mistakes regularly. Or she pointed to the encyclopedia and other history books.

Ok she might help with a grammar looksie, but that was about it.

Thanks mom...

[Neecy]

23. yep

My "kids" have fur and I've already told them - no cell phones! They don't seem to understand.

I've been doing this for about a year and a half and I can trace the economic downturn month by month. I've had young kids call hysterical because somebody is repossessing the car and they don't know what to do. And adults calling in giving us their medical symptoms because they can't afford a doctor. That's why I get so angry at these RW dolts screaming about the public option - I hear the need for it every day. I can hear how frightened people are.

[nadinbrzezinski]

24. WOW, I considered going back to get my EMT cert back

so I could go work for Remote Area Medical... just that my diabetes actually holds me back. A 12 our day with irregular meals is not a good way.

The old adage, don't add to casualties, came to me hard.

[BlooInBloo]

3. (shrug) In my day it was the little handheld electronic football game...

Times change, but people don't, mostly.

[SmileyRose]

4. LOVE THE SIG PIC !!

BTW, my mother STILL has an empty can of "just wonderful" in her bathroom closet. We got together and did a nice thing to clean that thing out and found it way in the back -- and put it back there again behind the stuff she uses, to be discovered by some time traveler in the future.

[SoCalDem]

7. Thanks , I just made it today.. hoped people would "get it".

I liked Aquanet better :rofl:

JW made me sneeze :)

[NYC_SKP]

5. High School? Hell, kids have 'em in 3rd and 4th grade...

And if you don't have one by 6th grade, man, you're not ever going to be in with the popular kids.

Very sad.

[seabeyond]

9. i couldnt believe the first i saw in elementary with kids. but... can still be well liked

i am not into peer pressure buying and that is what you are saying is a must. it isnt.

i had posted below. my kids dont have this and wont. and they are well liked.... and doing fine. they just blame me with their friends. cool by me.

[Hawkeye-X]

6. *whistles innocently*

[Rhiannon12866]

11. I remember those!

When I was a kid, they still had some Burma Shave signs along the old roads up in the North Country (Essex County, NY). My Dad used to read them aloud and we thought they were very entertaining... :D

[grasswire]

12. sad but very true

In southern Washington state over the weekend three carloads of teenagers took off for the beach. On a stretch of road, one of the cars pulled out to pass. Then the second car pulled out to pass. Then the third car, driven by a 17-year-old cheerleader, pulled out to pass and didn't have enough room. Four bright young kids died at the scene, and a fifth is hospitalized. The lives of so many people were changed in an eyeblink. The community is reeling.

So be careful, parents, about the whims of teenagers. No texting was involved in this crash, but the whole hyper-socialized culture opens doors for tragedies of new kinds.

[seabeyond]

8. my son walking into high school this year im-ing, texting, twittering free....

i wont buy him this crap

[SoCalDem]

10. My boys were sure they were the last kids on the planet to get a "GameBoy"

:) and we didn;t even get them their own.. one only and they had to share it :)

They lost interest pretty quickly when I told them I was NOT going to buy them the games.. they had to earn the money to buy them or use birthday money from grandparents.

[seabeyond]

13. lol. we do that with the computer games. either a bday or xmas or they buy

also, they are now having to spend money earned on computer parts when they want to upgrade, lol. i said no to x box. only computer games. (dont know what gameboy is). my husband works in computer industry. he won THREE xboxes in a damn contest with microsoft, so they won on that one.

[SoCalDem]

16. My husband won a iPod 8g something or other as a door prize

We had our son sell it for us ..We told him to keep everything over $75..He sold it for $150, and everybody won:)

[seabeyond]

17. that's funny. lol

yup.

[mamaleah]

25. My kids too.

1) They are too expensive for us to get and 2) totally unnecessary.

I wish more parents would understand: your kids do not need to be plugged in 24/7. You survived without these things, they will too.

[seabeyond]

28. oh, i so agree

and this give the kids other stuff, parents saying no. i agree

[madokie]

14. I guess I was a 7th or 8th grader when the two transister am radio hit the scene

you could put it in your pocket if you had a big assed pocket and yes it was not allowed any further than your locker. Man o man that two transister radio was some kind of something though.

[BattyDem]

15. AWESOME sig pic!

:applause:

[SoCalDem]

18. Thanks , I just made it today..you're the 2nd one to "get it"

I just wish the lady was examining a $100 bill:)

[billyoc]

21. What IS she examining?

:shrug:

[SoCalDem]

22. I think it's a newspaper..maybe a contract?

can't really tell:)

[ContinentalOp]

26. Large print, illustrated bible. -nt-

[SoCalDem]

27. That's probably it.. or maybe it's a birth certificate

:rofl:

I wish I knew photoshop:rofl: