Draw Something with a 9-year old

I am playing Draw Something with my 9-year-old daughter.  For those of you who do not know what Draw Something is, it is a game similar to Pictionary that you can play with your friends on an iPod or Smart Phone.  Her friends told her about it and then she started playing with random people online and me being the paranoid dad said, "why don't you play with me instead of people you do not know."  So, this is how I came to be playing Draw Something.  I do not consider myself an exceptionally good artist, but I do pretty good for this game.  Of course, we all think our drawings are good when we know the word, but have no idea what a person is trying to draw when we do not know the word.

Anyway, I am wandering.  Delaney chose a category "Rock & Roll" and then drew a picture of the word.  On the receiving end, it displayed the category to give me a hint.  I was ready.  The drawing began with what I thought was a guitar, which made prefect sense to me, being that it was Rock & Roll.  There was a kinda of curved rectangular shape with a circle in the middle and what looked like two dots of some kind.  Now, for those of you that have not played this game, the guesser is presented with about 12 letters and the numbers of letters in the word.  Kind of like a cross between hangman and the word jumble, with a picture for a clue.  Sometimes it helps, sometimes it just confuses.  So my first problem was there was no "G", so guitar was out.  I started to think of any six letter word that I could create with the letters available, but either it was a word and the picture didn't seem to connect, or I couldn't think of a word that related to Rock & Roll.

After a certain number of guesses, the game takes away a number of letters available to help narrow down you guesses.  At this point, I saw the word "Poison".  You know, Bret Michaels, big hair, glam metal, "Every Rose Has A Thorn".  Delaney had drawn a poison bottle with a skull and crossbones symbol, not a guitar.

Once again, the game may be played by all ages, but different words and categories have different meanings to different ages and generations.