> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://daysofadomesticdad.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # 23 Things My Kids Will Never Know - URL: https://daysofadomesticdad.com/23-things-my-kids-will-never-know/ - Published: 2013-02-19T12:00:56.000Z - Updated: 2026-01-05T21:41:31.000Z - Author: Colby - Tags: Tech, Kids, Parenting, Teens, #Migrated-1767645712313, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-05 14:42 ![My Kids Will Never Know rev](https://storage.ghost.io/c/b9/55/b955f19e-2d72-43e0-ad6e-7ea2d292618a/content/images/2026/01/my-kids-will-never-know-rev-1.png) ## My Kids Will Never Know Princess and I were headed to Happy Hour at Sonic today to get a half price drink and I was jamming out to some old 80's jams. When we came to a stop, I turned down the radio and she asked me if I really like that kind of music. I was blaring [The Vapors, Turning Japanese](http://youtu.be/gEmJ-VWPDM4) and remembering the first time I heard it. I was on the way to the Mockingbird Drive Inn in Dallas. Before I replied I thought to myself, "*Okay she is only 7, my kids will never know this type of music. She doesn't know anything but Justin Bieber and the Disney Channel*." Princess, I like/love my rock/pop/funk music from the 80's era like you adore Justin Bieber and everyone on the Disney channel. She kind of just sat there with a disgusted look on her face and asked if I could change the channel. Nope. I started to think about my kids and what they may miss out on as they get older. ![My Kids Will Never Know](https://storage.ghost.io/c/b9/55/b955f19e-2d72-43e0-ad6e-7ea2d292618a/content/images/2026/01/medium_2336601848.jpg "My Kids Will Never Know") photo credit: tracitodd via photopin cc ## 23 Things My Kids Will Never Know 1. **Rotary Phone** \- There is something about putting your finger in the rotary dial and hearing "*click, click, click*" by the numbers as you dial. 2. **LP Albums** \- The sense of placing the delicate needle on the record and then hearing the crackling through the speakers. 3. **Saturday Morning Cartoons** \- Waiting until Saturday morning for cartoons. Funny cartoons. Looney Toons, Hanna-Barbera, Tom and Jerry, and Wacky Races. 4. **TV sign off** \- The sound of the static and a rainbow colored screen on the TV late at night when programming is over until morning. 5. **Pen pals** \- Those friends far away that you actually write a letter to. 6. **Cassette Tape** \- The need to flip over the tape from side A to side B. 7. **[beeper](https://daysofadomesticdad.com/throwback-thursday-beepers/)s and Pay Phones** \- The "*Beep, Beep, Beep*" sound of someone receiving a page on a beeper and using a pay phone to return the call. 8. **MTV** \- Back when it just played nothing but music videos. 9. **Dial Up** \- The unmistakable sound the modem makes while connecting. 10. **Going beyond security at Airports** \- Arriving at the airport 10 minutes before your flight and having your family watch you get on and off the plane. 11. **VCR Rewinder** \- Actually needing to rewind the stack of VCR tapes from a weekend of watching movies. ![My Kids Will Never Know](https://storage.ghost.io/c/b9/55/b955f19e-2d72-43e0-ad6e-7ea2d292618a/content/images/2026/01/medium_6691711665.jpg "My Kids Will Never Know") photo credit: adam & lucy via photopin cc 12. **Party Lines** \- Dialing a phone number, waiting for a "*click click*", and then listening as a bunch of random people talked to each other on the same line. 13. **Disposable Cameras** \- The idea of actually sending your camera in for processing the film after 24 shots. 14. **US Mail** \- Receiving mail on Saturday (*which is apparently going to end in August 2013*). 15. **Address Book** \- Writing down a phone number to find it later and memorizing it. 16. **Own an Encyclopedia** \- The pride of having the whole set of the Encyclopedia Britannica on a bookshelf in your home. 17. **Time/Date** \- Calling the operator to get the time and date. 18. **Check** \- Get paid or pay a bill with a paper check. (*Yes, still existent but seems to be slowly evolving to become extinct soon enough*) 19. **\*69** \- Dial \*69 to find who called you last. 20. **Laundry** \- The art of hang drying your laundry on a clothesline (*another one still around but losing its luster*). 21. **Post Card** \- Writing a short note on the back of a picture card and mailing it to someone via US Mail. 22. **Paper TV Guide** \- Holding a TV Guide in your hand that you can thumb through to see when your favorite TV show comes on next. 23. **Record** \- The idea of recording a playlist on a cassettes tape or CD for playback... from the radio each time a song was played. ![Encyclopedia](https://storage.ghost.io/c/b9/55/b955f19e-2d72-43e0-ad6e-7ea2d292618a/content/images/2026/01/medium_2641415853.jpg "Encyclopedia") photo credit: Shishberg via photopin cc It is weird to think that several of the things we once did in our childhood have now been modified or phased out over time. I can only hope that all of the changes we go through as we progress can only be good for us... ad our children. **Is there something you miss having or doing? Something your children will most likely never know as they grow?** photo credits in top image: records - [David Gallard (Mr Guep)](http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrguep/4275862715/) via [photopin](http://photopin.com) [cc](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/) mailbox - photo credit: [Eric Fischer](http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/6847093045/) via [photopin](http://photopin.com) [cc](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/) letter - photo credit: • Happy Batatinha • via [photopin](http://photopin.com) [cc](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)