Today was one of those days that makes me forget about gifted denial... I decided to let DD12mo play on starfall. We haven't been on there for months and before that she just sort of watched because she was pretty young.
Well, today, she did a lot more than watching! She was repeating all the letters and the sounds they made and trying to sing along with the songs. She even said some new words (moon and I forgot the other one, but there was one more!). She seems to really like the "a" song and kept asking for it all day. I'm pretty sick of hearing it now.
She also even was figuring out how to click on the letters even though she's not very good at it yet.
But now I have a lot of questions for you about computer using toddlers:
- how often do you let your toddler play on the computer? do you set time limits?
- when were they able to navigate sites by themselves? (I'm especially interested in this because she's given up her nap entirely and I REALLY need some down time! She doesn't watch TV so I'd love it if she had some quiet activity for 15-30 minutes to do so I had a break from reading Green
Eggs and Ham non-stop.
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- I'm thinking of buying a mouse for her (i just have a touch pad on my laptop), any good ones for little hands?
- how do I teach her to respect my laptop? She thinks that not only is it fun but it also doubles as a chew toy!
