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Weirdly enough there’s one of the original versions of this toy in the toy box at our local pub and my three year old saw it and immediately knew that it was a
by mxxx 5y ago
Weirdly enough there’s one of the original versions of this toy in the toy box at our local pub and my three year old saw it and immediately knew that it was a phone. I have absolutely no idea how.
- aembleton 5y agoMaybe they have one at nursery
- lotsofpulp 5y agoMovies/tv shows/books?
- dspillett 5y ago> I have absolutely no idea how. Nurseries have a lot of old books, and TV channels repeat a lot of old cartoons & other shows, so a kid may be exposed to old-style phones in passing quite a lot. And “in passing” is enough at that stage, when a growing brain readily hoovers up any and all available information.
- bluGill 5y agoWe made an effort to not expose our son to that at a young age (no screens at all, and we didn't send him to daycare) He still figured out the first landline phone he saw.
- minhazm 5y agoPossibly the shape. The symbol/icons for a phone are still old style corded phones, even an an iPhone.
- bitwize 5y agoWell, even the most modern smartphone uses an icon of an analog landline handset to represent "make/end a call". She may have recognized that.
- jedberg 5y agoSesame Street still includes their old sketches with corded phones. I'll bet other kids TV does too. I've found the answer to pretty much every "how do they know that?" is "A TV show". Although now that the older one can read and is in-person school, the answer is increasingly "Books" or "Someone at school".