Clojurians Log v2

hello guys! 🙂 my daughter is an ipad "user" since she was less than a year old. she has already started interacting with it by touching before she was 2 years old. she is almost 6 years old now and i think she turned out well so far. she is playing simple games on it. drawing a lot with the paper app, but even more on actual paper. watches cartoons from netflix (deleted the utube app because of elsagate-like shit is just too easy to access). she regularly reviews photos on it, which are synced from my phone. uses the sample editor to record her singing in garage band. also connects her midi keyboard to garage band. teaches other kids how to use it...

but apart from that she rides the scooter since we was ~3 yrs old. started in-line roller skating and swimming about a year ago. spends a lot of time in our little above-ground pool either alone or with her friends. plays with the sand, shells and the dogs on the beach maybe 1-2 times a week. so i think we could strike a good balance between letting her interact with both the virtual and the physical world. so far...

and she started to ask me a few months ago to read bed-time stories to her. also asks me regularly to put on some music for the past year. im feeding her everything possible, from baroque classics to rock opera, folk and electronic. she listens to most of it in awe 🙂

2 months ago she was captivated by the kirov ballet for 20 minutes. she watched it like as if she would need to take an exam from it afterwards 🙂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rJoB7y6Ncs

really good actually, how are things on your end?

weirdly great

good for us 👍

good to hear! seems some people in tech are actually making out pretty well, just hope everyone stays safe!

i forget,were you mostly WFH before also?

yep

we also use a co-working space, which has been empty, so private offices 😛

cool. yeah being WFH helped, altho we'd just moved to a new place and it's gonna be a long time before we can meet new friends 😐

yeah how did the move go?

it was last year so it was fine, but we were just starting to get settled when this all went down

yeah, thats rough - fam doing well tho?

im sure they are probably bored

hanging in there

yeah unfortunately my daughter is 4 and hanging out with kids is what she really needs at her stage

but she's gotten into legos, which has been awesome

yeah, my nephew is also 4 and obsessed with lego

their imagination carries them through

have you seen the Lego Playgrounds app?

i have not

she might be too young for sticking an iPad in front of her but

Lego AR for kids

https://www.lego.com/en-us/aboutus/news/2019/october/lego-playgrounds/

Im personally really mixed about kids and tech, but there is huge opportunity for fun based learning and education

My thing is that behaviour reinforcement comes from them watching adults, which they don’t get with tech

that looks very cool, will definitely check it out

thanks for the pointer