Growing up, I'm sure all of us have heard variations of "you'll understand when you're older" from parents and such, and typically, they've turned out to be right.
Not always though, so I was wondering if we could pick out moments from our childhood when we were right, despite what the adults said.
Mine seem to relate to technology:
When I was a kid, I hated math, specifically memorization, like the multiplication tables, and I told my mom I didn't need to know them, and should just use a calculator. She replies, "you're not going to just carry a calculator everywhere you go."
A few years later and cell phones were ubiquitous, and I in fact always am capable of calculating from my picket.
Also, in my early school years, I remember that the teachers insisted I do essays by writing a first draft, then rewriting the second draft, then writing a final draft. Now, computers were pretty new at the time, so the teachers weren't considering them, but as an impressionable young kid, I was.
"That's stupid," I said. Why rewrite everything when when you can just go over what you typed on the computer and edit as needed? I tried explaining this to my teacher, but she insisted I do things the old fashioned way. By the time I was in high school, everyone was expected to have a computer, and I suspect little kids aren't being taught to write essays longhand anymore either.
So how about everyone else? What things were you right about as a kid?
Not always though, so I was wondering if we could pick out moments from our childhood when we were right, despite what the adults said.
Mine seem to relate to technology:
When I was a kid, I hated math, specifically memorization, like the multiplication tables, and I told my mom I didn't need to know them, and should just use a calculator. She replies, "you're not going to just carry a calculator everywhere you go."
A few years later and cell phones were ubiquitous, and I in fact always am capable of calculating from my picket.
Also, in my early school years, I remember that the teachers insisted I do essays by writing a first draft, then rewriting the second draft, then writing a final draft. Now, computers were pretty new at the time, so the teachers weren't considering them, but as an impressionable young kid, I was.
"That's stupid," I said. Why rewrite everything when when you can just go over what you typed on the computer and edit as needed? I tried explaining this to my teacher, but she insisted I do things the old fashioned way. By the time I was in high school, everyone was expected to have a computer, and I suspect little kids aren't being taught to write essays longhand anymore either.
So how about everyone else? What things were you right about as a kid?
