Thursday, September 21, 2006

Hacker

Kaite has become quite the computer-lover over the last year. We have 2 PCs set-up in the den, one is for daddy, and the other is shared by mommy and Katie. Katie loves to come into the den, hop on the PC and start surfing the web. She has taught herself how to open Explorer, navigate to a few sites that we have bookmarked (mostly Disney Pricess sites) and click on the fun things she finds there. Keep in mind that she has yet to learn how to read. She can minimize and maximize windows, close annoying pop-ups, follow links, and even print -- all by herself. Its really quite amazing and a little frightening. With so much content linkable on the web, we have to watch pertty closely to prevent her from going somewhere innappropriate. I actually think Jennifer is becoming a little intimidated by her daughter's tech-savvy! Her little hands move that mouse around with some serious skill.
It's actually gotten to the point where we have had to put a password on the PC to keep Katie from spending too much time in here. So now she gets thwarted by the password field and comes to me and says, "Daddy, the computer is broken, can you fix it?"
She has been playing an Ariel education game much lately, she sings songs along with the characters, coordinates some dance moves, colors, and practices her counting. Ill have to record the next musical segment she performs. She likes to dance while she is singing and wave her arm around in a very dramatic fashion. She even likes to sing, "La La La La, La Laaaaaa" when she forgets the words.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Isn't it amazing just how intuitive computers are for kids?? I remember learning how to write little programs on an Apple IIe in elementary school. Well before the days of a mouse. My favorite game was hangman. My brothers first computer was a Vic 20 and we'd load games with a cassette tape. Just think what our kid's kids will be doing with computers. Scary.

Anonymous said...

I can remember chewing on the pencil erasers as a kid and how they would not erase well afterwards. Didn't touch a computer until my fifties - now THATS scary.