Like Father, Like Daughter
I am so proud. Jessica, my three year old daughter is now using the computer. I found this coloring site, courtesy of Matt Homann’s the [non] billable hour blog.
I colored with my daughter, having her point to the color she wanted and then point to what she wanted colored as she sat on my lap. I then realizedd that she could probably work the trackpad on the MacBook Pro all by herself. Within minutes, she was working the trackpad and clicking on the mouse.
The next day she pulled the oven door off her Little Tykes kitchen set and walked around calling it her computer, using the oven door window as her screen and the base as a computer She repeated all of the things for her coloring program on her oven door ‘computer’.
I decided if she was using an oven door as a computer, it was time to get her a computer. She now has her very own Barbie laptop. The first night I brought it home, she slept with it in her arms like it was a teddy bear.
I am so proud.
Congratulations. My son started on my desktop at 2 1/2 and he hasn't left me alone since. All the PBS games (Sesame Street, Teletubbies, Clifford, Dragon Tales, etc.) When he sees me working he says, "my turn" and has to play games. One time I got preoccupied and realized he had been on for more than two hours! He had told me all the games he played, knows how to get to his games and get out of his games. So I bought the MacBook Pro and relinquished my desktop to him. Yes, it is quite an amazing thing to watch. (He's now 3 1/2...nearly one third of his life he's known how to operate a computer.)
