[Jeff Chandler]

3 year olds were way more useful before television remote controls became ubiquitous.

[Paladin2]

Are there now “go get a beer from the fridge bots” yet?

[Kipp]

I don't buy that three year olds think that they don't feel like a particular sex. That seems like it's way too complex a thought process. Some three year olds like to think they're dogs or robots or a particular fictional character.

I'm a female and was a tomboy. I sometimes pretended to be Annie Oakley, but more often pretended to be male characters, very likely because there were more of them on tv. I remember when I was two or three, I tried to pee standing up like my dad - needless to say, that didn't work too well. (I mopped up the mess with a towel and "hid" the towel behind the toilet.) I would compete with my brothers. But I never thought I felt like I was a boy. I never thought I felt like a girl. I just felt like me. These days, I suppose a lot of parents who had a girl pretending to be Seth Adams on Wagon Train (though I did think the scout Flint McCullough was cute) or Rusty on Rin Tin Tin would assume their daughter wanted to be a boy.

[Sacajaweau]

Can't even imagine life without a remote. But there were only 2 stations back then (1950').

So you watched what mom wanted....or you waited till she fell asleep and watched what you wanted to watch.