Katherine, they say that child development depends part on nature and part on nurture. Well, when it comes to you and technology, I’d say both play a big part in your young life. Both your daddy and I love technology, and learning it comes easy to us… and for the nurture part, well, we encourage you to play with technology and our “tech toys”.Your favourite? Hands down my iPad. Yes, I am still claiming it as mine – just so we’re clear on it. Even though I had to explain in a couple of business meetings last week why my portfolio case had a nice old fashioned paper notepad in it, but my high-tech iPad slot was empty.
You are having so much fun playing with it – we have installed some great toddler games on it including some simple puzzles, animated picture books and my favourite – fun German word games, all of which you effortlessly navigate. Watching you over the past few months, I have watched you go from randomly tapping onto the screen to today, where you know exactly how to swipe your finger over the screen to flip between the pages and to tap on the icon of a specific game you want to play.
What I love about watching you play with the iPad is that it’s nothing special to you – you’ll seamlessly switch from playing with it to building something with blocks to running around outside or “reading” a book.
You are teaching me that life never stands still – new things to learn, new technologies to embrace. For you it’s normal to see and be exposed to new things every day, but as we grow older we sometimes tend to stay still with the knowledge we already have. Life is about growing and learning, every day. I love you always and forever.
