{"id":20213,"date":"2018-08-10T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T10:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inspireafire.com\/?p=20213"},"modified":"2018-08-06T17:21:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T21:21:36","slug":"how-to-explain-the-olden-days-to-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inspireafire.com\/how-to-explain-the-olden-days-to-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Explain “The Olden Days” to Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Dear Granddaughter:<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

Since you asked about \u201cthe olden days,\u201d I thought you\u2019d enjoy a written account of the primitive conditions in which Grandpa and I grew up.<\/p>\n

Facebook hadn\u2019t been invented back then, so meeting people and making friends was a complicated process. It involved rituals like talking to people, shaking their hands, and asking them questions about their interests.<\/p>\n

Cars and Garages<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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photo by Pixabay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We lowered and raised our car windows by cranking a<\/span> handles attached to the inside doors of the cars. We unlocked the car doors with keys, and had to lock them by pushing a button down by hand!<\/p>\n

Garage doors could only be opened and closed manually, with a handle on the front. We had to get out of the car, walk to the garage, and open or close it ourselves.<\/p>\n

TV, Telephones, and Letters<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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Cartoon by Ron Levellie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

TVs in the dark ages had no remote controls. We got up from the couch and walked across the room to change the channel or turn the volume down with a knob attached to the front of the TV set. We had no couch potatoes<\/em> in those days, either.<\/em><\/p>\n

When we used telephones, we had to dial the other person by poking our finger into holes in a numbered plastic circle on the front of the phone. We even talked <\/em>to the person on the other end. In those days, a text <\/em>referred to a book we used for schoolwork.<\/p>\n

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Photo by Pixabay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We also sent messages to friends with items called letters<\/em>, written with devices named pens,<\/em> on sheets of paper, and we put them in a blue box on a street corner. They were sorted and sent in a truck to our friends\u2019 houses. Sometimes they took days to arrive!<\/p>\n

I know this has shocked you, and you\u2019re amazed that we survived. But people in the olden days were tougher. Without Facebook, remotes, and texting, we had to be.<\/p>\n

With love,\u00a0Your Savvy Grandma<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n