Here are some things I say to my kids that my mum never said to me. Modern parenting just seems a little more complicated these days …
“No, we cannot buy that on eBay.”
“Go play Angry Birds on dad’s phone. Mine has no games on it.” (I’m lying to them, but it stops them playing with my phone.)
“Who re-programmed the dishwasher again?”
“That’s called ADVERTISING. They want us to spend our money on more stuff we don’t need.”
“I don’t know the answer why. I’ll look it up on the Web later.” (See my earlier post Curiosity killed (by) the Internet.)
“If you don’t finish your homework, you can’t play Star Wars games on the computer.”
“Stop right-clicking the mouse! Use the other finger!”
“No, the Lego company does not use the money we give them to help poor people.” (A true answer to a real question about whether Lego existed to help the disadvantaged…)
“Can you please help your sister find the Angelina Ballerina website? Make sure you turn off that sound!”
“It’s full of chemicals and I don’t think it’s good for you. Have some organic locally-produced cold-pressed vitamin-enriched guava infusion instead.”
“Shall we Skype our friends in America?”
“I’m making dinner. I can’t find Puff the Magic Dragon video on YouTube right now.”
Brought to you by the Interweb – Angry Birds film
Seems like we have so little creative talent left in the world that the Angry Birds app is going to be made in to an Angry Birds film. I wonder if they’ll be producing Angry Birds shaped cheese-flavoured ice-cream snacks for the little ones?
A life less digital 