Parents Just Don't Understand

He was completely correct.  They DON'T.

The best example was MTV.  If you're too young to be able to remember MTV it was exactly like the Beatles, except different.  Parents everywhere became very confused and did not know what to DO.


They would try to set all these nonsensical rules.

"Okay you CAN watch MTV but only for one hour per day."

"What?  WHY?  Is it still okay to watch other TV?"

"Yes.  When that hour is up you have to change the channel to Laverne and Shirley re-runs or something else."

"FOR WHAT REASON?"

"I don't know, Laverne and Shirley is more wholesome, slightly."


The same thing would happen with Atari.  Every kid was so excited about Atari and parents didn't know what to do about it.

"DO YOUR HOMEWORK INSTEAD!"

"It's done.  Now I want to play Kaboom."

"Well....DON'T YOU DARE ENJOY IT."


When Nintendo got invented they used to give you this fake gun that you could use to shoot ducks on a TV screen.  My mother would flip out if my brothers and sisters and I pointed the fake Nintendo gun at each other's heads.

"I DON'T WANT THOSE LASER BEAMS GOING THROUGH THE HEAD!"

and that was how we lived.  That and drinking a lot of Kool-Aid.

It's all true.

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