Ellie and I have been reading the Harry Potter books to Nora and Andrew. They absolutely love them, particularly Nora who begs to read more chapters every night. Given this excitement, we decided to let them stay up last night to watch the first Harry Potter movie, which was being shown on ABC. Nora and Andrew, who rarely see non-animated movies, were transfixed.
Anyway, here is the interesting thing. Andrew and Nora have been raised in a world of DVDs and PBS. The idea of commercial television is largely foreign to them. Thus, when a commercial break would interrupt the movie, they did not take kindly to the intrusion. Andrew simply could not understand why we couldn't just skip over the commercials and go back to the movie. We had to repeatedly assure him that the movie would return in a few minutes.
It struck me that my kids are already living in a different media world than the one I was raised in. The world is changing.
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Read Anna's blog to be convinced of the pure awesomeness that is DVR.
Why haven't we discussed this? I've been chomping at the bit to start HP with Tanner. Let's talk.
I was just pondering on the old order having changed when Shannon came to see the digital picture on the back of the camera an instant after it was shot!
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