l-u-n-c-h
*time passes*
How do you spell games?
g-a-m-e-s
*more time passes*
How do you spell excited?
What are you doing?
Talking with Nana.
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Wait... what?
Okay so my 5 year old has now figured out that when mommy and daddy are all talked out she can pull up the ipad and text message the other relatives. She first grabbed the phone the other day while my wife was in the shower and had left the it open to a conversation to her mom. Wife comes out to her daughter texting back and forth out of the blue.
I just had the same thing happen this weekend. We had finished homework and everyone was settling down in the afternoon and taking a break before dinner. I hopped on the computer, 5 year old grabbed the ipad, and the 3 year old was with the Legos. After a few minutes the "how do you spell" questions started popping up, and sure enough she'd looked up my sister-in-law on the contact list and was having a conversation, all the while watching a movie between messages. She's a natural at it apparently. Monkey see monkey do I guess, but this is like a fish taking to water.
So anyway, I wasn't prepared for this one yet. Does anyone have hints and tips about this kind of thing? How do you manage it at your house? Any good rules for phones and texting and stuff? Just trying to derive an ad-hoc policy before she defines her own by default...
Edited, Nov 17th 2014 2:58pm by someproteinguy