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#1 Nov 17 2014 at 4:24 PM Rating: Excellent
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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.

...

...

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... Smiley: lol

Edited, Nov 17th 2014 2:58pm by someproteinguy
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#2 Nov 17 2014 at 4:52 PM Rating: Decent
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My son will sit at my computer, playing Minecraft while listening to a YouTube video in the background and texting mommy (who is in the bedroom) with my phone.
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#3 Nov 17 2014 at 4:56 PM Rating: Good
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Why is your daughter having to teach her nana how to spell such simple words...

Was what I first thought, like some kind of dementia thing. I assumed that taking was like a phone call or something. Smiley: lol
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#4 Nov 17 2014 at 5:00 PM Rating: Excellent
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Professor stupidmonkey wrote:
Why is your daughter having to teach her nana how to spell such simple words...
I think my first reaction was something like that. "How are you talking to Nana, it's quiet in here?" Then came, "oh right texting, that's what you're talking about. Okay that makes sense." Smiley: lol

Edited, Nov 17th 2014 3:00pm by someproteinguy
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#5 Nov 17 2014 at 7:51 PM Rating: Decent
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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?

The boy isn't really that interested in tablets and the like. We did the no screen time until 2 years old thing with him, because I'm with him all the time and we could, not because we're awesome parents (although, we totally are). Since he's turned two, he watches a few things, pre-nightmarish CGI Thomas and Friends, Mighty Machines, that sort of thing. He's aware of phones and phone calls, and he understands words have meaning and all that. I'm not sure he understands what's going on when I'm texting Nexa. He doesn't read yet.

Hannah has a tablet and a computer and a kindle and access to more of those things, but so far, doesn't seem particularly interested in communicating with people who aren't on a Minecraft server through any of those methods. I wouldn't see it as a big deal unless your kid starts demanding the phone or acting out in some other way.
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#6 Nov 18 2014 at 7:25 AM Rating: Good
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Time to take her in and have a usb port installed. Wireless just isn't going to give you the necessary constraints.
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#7 Nov 18 2014 at 8:04 AM Rating: Excellent
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My kid got a Nabi when he was three (last Christmas, actually). He actually does a fair job of self-regulating on it in that he'll get bored within a reasonable time and play with something else. It also has time controls so it shuts itself off at a certain time each evening which prevents an argument over taking it away for bed time.

Since he has that, he doesn't play with our phones so we don't have any random calling/texting going on. He does go on Youtube sometimes (we have to start it for him since it's on the parent-locked side) and I'll find him having moved on from Pocoyo to be watching Funniest Sports Bloopers or something. I assume he finds stuff in the sidebars and picks things until he gets something he likes. I've never found him watching anything actually objectionable though.
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#8 Nov 18 2014 at 8:15 AM Rating: Good
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Mine plays on abcmouse and a couple of edutainment apps on a Nabi, which keeps her attention until the dog shows up.
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#9 Nov 19 2014 at 4:07 PM Rating: Good
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My 5 year old has a Leap Pad Explorer and his own Galaxy Tab 7. The Explorer is the 1st gen one, so it doesn't have internet capabilities. The Tabis hooked up to our home wifi, but I don't have an email account set up on it and I haven't found any other way for him to communicate with the outside world from it. If he gets ahold of my phone, he is quite the little texter and has been known to text my ex-wife...unusual...text messages that she does not at first realize are coming from him.
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he is quite the little texter and has been known to text my ex-wife...unusual...text messages that she does not at first realize are coming from him.

"Back and forth, forever"
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Smasharoo wrote:
he is quite the little texter and has been known to text my ex-wife...unusual...text messages that she does not at first realize are coming from him.

"Back and forth, forever"


I had never heard this before, so I had to google it. Now I'm sorry I did.
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