30 Years....

Has it really been 30 years since I graduated from High School?? From the carefree days of football games and friday nights, to careers, children and responsibility...
My High School days have been completely different for my children for many reasons--We had 600 students, they have 4000. My friends were all members of the church, they have a handful that share that bond. Now they have AP, IB, Honors, we just went to school and had fun! Everyone knew each other, there were no plain clothes police officers "mixing" with the students and it was very possible one of your teachers was in your ward. We had a long enough summer that we were actually excited to go back to school, not just a few weeks where its hard to believe its time to go back already. Its definitely more challenging that it was 30 years ago! The most valuable class I took in High School that has been a benefit to me is Typing! They didn't even call it keyboarding because we actually used typewriters! Had to go back and erase our mistakes, manually fix the margins, and start the whole thing over if you messed up! Anyway--here is my list of 30 things for 30 years that my kids enjoyed through their High School years that we would have never even dreamed of......
1. Digital Camera
2. Cordless phone
3. Cell phone
4. IPOD
5. Texting
6. Email
7. Debit Cards
8. Laptop
9. Snow Board
10. Instant Messaging
11. CD’s
12. DVD’s
13. Water Bottles
14. Airbags
15. School Shootings
16. Mapquest
17. The word “online”
18. Xgames
19. Photoshop
20. Skate Parks
21. My Space/Facebook
22. Xbox/Wii/Playstation
23. Itunes
24. You Tube
25. GPS
26. TV Remote
27. Flat Iron
28. Twitter
29. Hybrid
30. PC/Mac