The newsletter is basically an announcement of all the activities going on in October that anyone can attend and no one will. Next Thursday, all the Clubs will have an open house to celebrate “Lights on Afterschool” – a program that works to ensure that children nationwide will have access to afterschool programming.
To accompany this article I’ll be including the official 2010 Lights on Afterschool poster. While visiting their website this afternoon to find a .jpg of the poster, I came across the gallery of poster runner-ups. Incorporated in the majority of the posters (due to the “Lights On” theme) are light bulbs. Light bulb superheroes, light bulb suns, intense, zooming all around light bulbs… light bulbs.
What’s interesting about all of this is, as I observed poster after poster, I realized something was off. It was the way the kids were drawing the light bulbs. In the majority of the posters, light bulbs were represented as little, swirly lines – energy efficient light bulbs – not the big yellow circle with a black square base that I drew when I was little. How crazy is that?
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If you’re a 7-year-old and you’re going to draw a light bulb, it’s probably going to look like a yellow poop spiral vs. a hot air balloon. Weird, right?
And that got me thinking…If I walk into a grade school right now and ask a kid to draw me a telephone, what are the chances it has a swirly chord attached to it (like I used to draw). How about a television? Obviously there won’t be an antenna attached, but is a second grader going to attempt a flat screen? And how the heck do you even draw a flat screen? And how old am I that this is even a blog post? At least I know what a blog is though... not dying yet.
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