Just because an 8-year-old child has a working cell phone doesn't mean he didn't have a toy one which he grew out of at three. I know I ceased to be amused by those by the time I was in Kindergarten. By then my sister had taught me to read, and we would spend after-playtime hours on the livingroom floor with pencils and paper, collaborating on satires of songs and poems and writing some of the best science fiction stories ever. :-)
Had mobile phones been invented then, my parents would have gotten us one each, because by the time I was six, we were both tying up the one home phone talking to friends. There were fights.
My nephew was using his mother's Mac when he was three. He made a birthday card for me with Pagemaker. He's now a programmer for a major defense contractor and going for his master's in CS. Outside of work he's a fairly normal guy except for all his girlfriends (he's a serial monogamist) being large and blonde. He has about 150 friends on Facebook, all of them he know IRL, mostly from college, and he joins his sportscaster father and superfan mother every year to see baseball spring training in Arizona. His MySpace page documents his tour of Ireland when he was 18, beer by beer. I don't think all his high tech baby toys did him any harm.
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Date: 2008-09-16 03:18 pm (UTC)Had mobile phones been invented then, my parents would have gotten us one each, because by the time I was six, we were both tying up the one home phone talking to friends. There were fights.
My nephew was using his mother's Mac when he was three. He made a birthday card for me with Pagemaker. He's now a programmer for a major defense contractor and going for his master's in CS. Outside of work he's a fairly normal guy except for all his girlfriends (he's a serial monogamist) being large and blonde. He has about 150 friends on Facebook, all of them he know IRL, mostly from college, and he joins his sportscaster father and superfan mother every year to see baseball spring training in Arizona. His MySpace page documents his tour of Ireland when he was 18, beer by beer. I don't think all his high tech baby toys did him any harm.