He doesn’t know how to make his own sandwich but . . .
A few weeks back, my five year old son informed me and the wife that he wanted a Wii game called Skylanders. Having just given him no less than eleventy billion toys for Christmas, we said no. He, then, informed us that he had his own money and asked if he could buy it with that. Sure. I hop on Amazon and order it. I tell him that it will be here in a couple of days. He looks frustrated because he wants it now. He then turns the laptop around and shows me Target’s webpage and says “Target has them. We can just go there and pick one up.”
A five year old who can’t clean his room, fold his own laundry, or remember to flush the toilet can hop on the internet and tell you that the local Target store has an item in stock. I like living in the future but not that much.
January 24th, 2012 at 12:08 pm
This future is so much more… domestic than I wanted it to be.
January 24th, 2012 at 12:11 pm
Ha. The 3 year old nephew flies through the Kindle Fire like a professional. And the five year old tells me I need to practice Wii more.
January 24th, 2012 at 12:16 pm
I still don’t fold my laundry or clean my room. That’s why I got married!
January 24th, 2012 at 12:19 pm
If he was a Democrat he’s be voting already!
January 24th, 2012 at 12:26 pm
I use my three and four year olds to perform QA checks for touchpanels I have design to go into multi-million dollar A/V installations.
The bad thing is, I still have customers tell me that the touchpanel is hard to use and doesn’t make sense…
January 24th, 2012 at 12:29 pm
I bought that game on Amazon for my nephews. They love it!
January 24th, 2012 at 12:38 pm
I have a ten year old, an eight year old, a five year old and a three year old. Got Skylanders for Christmas for the lot. They all like to play the game (with more or less help) and my wife and I like it as well. That takes tremendous skill to make a game like that.
January 24th, 2012 at 1:25 pm
So, what was the price delta between Amazon and Target, sales tax included? And, did he figure that into the equation?
January 24th, 2012 at 1:26 pm
It can work in your favor, too. Ours is at the age of being ready to disbelieve Santa, and had convinced himself that there was no way that he was going to get a certain precious Lego for Christmas as HE (just turned six) had been searching the internet relentlessly for weeks and the item was a limited production run & sold out, apparently, everywhere including the manufacturer’s on-line store.
He got the Lego nonetheless and will enhoy the myth of Santa for at least one more year. Old-fashioned Dad found one without the computer.
And ours does flush & put the seat down (most of the time), but do you think he would remember to wash his hands after being reminded constantly for several YEARS?? Nope.
Enjoy being a Dad.
January 24th, 2012 at 1:43 pm
“A five year old who can’t clean his room, fold his own laundry, or remember to flush the toilet can hop on the internet and tell you that the local Target store has an item in stock. ”
What are you doing with my son? And does he still have my Netbook?
January 24th, 2012 at 3:00 pm
I wandered over here from Instapundit. Thanks for the laugh. I don’t understand dc, I laboriously try to teach them basic hygiene, but they require no tutorial for their DS.
Go figure.
January 24th, 2012 at 9:26 pm
When my baby ‘sis was four she took my mother’s cc from her purse. Long story short, Mom never new a thing ’till the box of new clothes, from a reputable retail outlet, showed up at the door. 1982, if my memory serves me. Children are smart. Not intelligent, by any means. But, they are smart, even the stupid ones.