This blog’s name comes from an old joke that any child knows the answer to:

“What is red and smells like blue paint?”

“Red paint”

The idea that an adult would think of the most complicated answer while a kid would just look at you like “Duh” appealed to my sense of simplicity.

Something just happened to me that reinforces that.

Have a look at an icon you’ve seen a thousand times:

We adults know what that is… an old 3.5 disc. However, it’s very doubtful that a teenager like my daughter has ever even seen one. Yet, the icon is so engraved in their brains that they know WHAT it does without knowing WHAT it is.

Out of curiosity I asked my daughter’s boyfriend (God it kills me to type that) if he knows what that is.

His answer… “You mean the thing that looks like a SIM card.. or a floppy?”

It never dawned on me that it could be read to look like a phone SIM card. He took an icon that dates back to 20 years before he was born and re imagined it to something that makes sense to him.

At least my little girl isn’t dating a moron.