The other day my son was sitting next to me while I did some work on the computer. He started pushing icons on my screen with his finger. My computer doesn’t have a touch screen like my iPad, so nothing happened, but it demonstrated an expectation my son is growing up with.
He expects to get the media he wants, when he wants it at a touch of a button. When I was a kid (not very long ago) the only options for watching cartoons were right after school and Saturday morning. I wouldn’t ever think of sleeping in on Saturday mornings or I would miss “Transformers,” “He-Man” and possibly even “The Smurfs” re-runs. I was completely at the mercy of the TV schedule. My son will likely never have to deal with this constraint. He can simply watch Cartoon Network all day every day, or the History Channel, ESPN or Seinfeld re-runs. I had to search through libraries to find content as a child; for my kid, finding content will be as simple as a Google search.
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