I got to spend a bit of time with the one year-old. She is good natured, mobile, curious, adventurous, friendly and very quick to laugh. I guess you can tell that I like her. It's fun to be around someone with such enthusiasm.
We got her some blocks in a bucket. She picks the blocks off the floor and throws them into the bucket (mostly). The she crawls over, grabs the bucket and dumps it over. She laughs heartily.
But whenever she spots any electronic gadget she immediately heads for it. An iPhone, and iPad, the TV remote. She already knows those things have magic power. She has apps on the iPad. She pushes the screen and animals appear. She pushes it again they made noise. She laughs.
She does Facetime on the iPhone. She smiles into the screen and says "Hiiiii. " Then she grabs the phone, turns it over and turns it off. She laughs.
First I thought, this may not be good for a child. She will think that all she has to do is push a button and the world changes. Then I realized, it is good for her. That is the way the world works.
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When cell phones and stuff like that began to arrive on the scene, Fisher-Price and other toy companies rushed to produce toy versions of these items. These our grandsons tossed aside immediately with contempt. They wanted the real thing. The same thing with keys. Forget the cheerful-looking red-turquoise-yellow-blue set of toy keys. Mom's or Dad's key set will do just fine, thank you.
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