It popped up on feeds a few times during the weekend on social media.
MTV was officially 40 years old, debuting on August 1, 1981.
I barely remember watching it the first decade it was on. Heck, I was barely a toddler when it debuted. Being as young as I was I don’t believe my parents let me watch it those early years. I do recall A-ha’s “Take on Me.” I loved the music video – still do. It’s a classic as well as the tagline “I want my MTV.”
I do remember when MTV actually played music videos. I spent a lot of time watching in thoe early teen years. I discovered a lot of music during those teen years on MTV and VH1 in the mid-1990s.
I did watch mostly for the music, waiting for favorite videos to play or watching until the end to see who the artist was and what the song was called.
My first dose of reality television was on MTV. Not with “The Real World,” you know seven strangers picked to live in a house “and have their lives taped to find out what happens when people stop being polite and start getting real” – geez it sticks with you.
I started with “Road Rules” and then weened into “The Real World” for a few seasons. But, then life changed and I wasn’t watching television or MTV. I had a driver’s license, a car and places to go. I was back to listening to music mostly on the radio.
But those MTV summers…
I had high hopes for this summer.
When preschool ended in June for five-year-old Jonathan. Every student in his classroom received a drawstring backpack with their names on it. JD’s backpack had a folder filled with activities to do throughout the summer with working on numbers, writing out alphabet letters, practicing cutting and more.
I had high hopes. I wrote down in my planner for the first week of summer vacation how many worksheets for him to do every day.
Realistically, really lucky if he does one of the sheets. I have tried the chipper voice of “let’s write our letters.”
I have tried “let’s do some worksheets” when he has proclaimed he is bored. Kudos teachers. Huge kudos on everything you do. Just had to change it up and carry workbooks I already had in the vehicle or in my backpack when we are out and about. But…ready for school to be in session.