4 + 4 =
4 + 4 =
It’s a learning game we bought for the kids years ago. We started with Zoë and it’s worked its way through the ranks having finally reached Zella and Zander. Zia will still fight for her computer time though Zane and Zoë seem to have moved onto meatier things like books and such.
The twins will be all of four years old in just a few weeks. Zella knows how to access the program on the computer and get it up and running for her “session” without any assistance. Hell, when I was three years old about to be four a computer was commonly referred to as an abacus and even then I didn’t know how to use one. I still don’t.
Times, they are a changin’.
(And no, she did not immediately know that the answer to the problem was 8. But she recognized that it was a math problem and that the numbers on a keyboard are located just above the letters. She and Zander were making their way through the number line in search of the correct answer which they did eventually find. I know I’m supposed to be sitting right there helping them but sometimes it’s just fun to watch the two of them work their way through a “session” helping each other along the way. Or yelling at each other, “Zander, that’s not right!” “Zander, you’re doing it wrong!” Either way, it’s pretty good entertainment.)
An abacus, huh, you don’t look that old Ed!
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Good livin! I’m actually pretty ancient.
When I was four, computers were only found in sci-fi programmes like Fireball XL5 and Dr Who, and those computers ruled the world and made being human irrelevant, where did we go wrong, why did we tame the computer ?
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I’m not so sure I’d call mine tame.
Aw how cute! Daughter has been on the computer since she was a baby; we started her off with a program called “Baby Keys”. Ah the days of monochrome monitors and XT PCs!
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And now you can’t get her off of it, can you?