Elena has been loving imaginary play. Today when she was upset and cranky from not sleeping since she's been sick, I knew that Garin (the stuffed monkey) and Gorilla would be able to talk her into playing with them instead of crying. So we had a four way hug and went into my room, found and emptied a cardboard box, and we were set to go. (Thanks to all our online shopping, we ALWAYS have cardboard boxes around.) So, I put the box on the floor and put the animals in.
Me: This is their house.
ER: (grinning now) Oh, is there a TV in the house?
Me: Of course. (I took an imaginary TV and put it in the house.)
ER: What about the remote?
Me: Oh sure! (another imaginary object went in)
We continued to furnish the house with imaginary objects. I just cracked up about the "remote" since....ok...here come the mothballs and cobwebs...I remember our old TV when I was a kid that had a tuner like an old radio dial. My Papa used to yell for me as a little pipsqueak to come tune in Channel 7 for him, since he didn't have the patience to fiddle with the brown dial with the gold letters and red needle to get it to come in.
Then I remember our first color TV and the NBC peacock.
Anyhow, it is the 21st century, and Elena's imaginary TVs have remotes.
2 comments:
Ha! Loved your reminiscing, Loni. Times like this I’m acutely aware of how much closer in age I am to you than to your daughter, though she feels like a peer. Daniel even specifically requests “the DVD remote” or “the VCR remote” when he’s watching something. I also had a surrealistic moment recently when I introduced him to the movie that was my favorite when I was a girl (The Sound of Music) and realized that he assumed I watched it on video all the time, the way he watches his favorite movie (Cars). It was weird trying to describe movies before the invention of home video. And we got a DVD of the old TV show “Flipper” from the library—and I was shocked to see that it was in color! I guess we didn’t have a color television back when it was on in the late ‘60s. How much life has changed in a few short decades, eh?
The first movie I remember seeing (in a theatre) was "The King and I." I used to watch old movies on regular TV channels. "The Wizard of Oz" was a 1939 movie so that was seen on TV for sure. Did you ever see "I Remember Mama?" I can't figure out whether that was a recurring show or a movie. Anyway, our current TV/stereo etc system needs an engineering degree to sort out. We have to tell people how to do it if they are ever here alone.Bah!!!
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