Overheard during our Day 2 Chinese New Year dinner at Lentor. Jonathan – one of my nephews – staggered into the house real tired as he had a long day. His cousin, Isaac, quips:
“Tired?”
“Yea…” Jonathan mutters
“I know what will wake you up… the iPad!”
The bunch of adults who were nearby overheard and couldn’t resist a chuckle. Because shortly after dinner, the entire lot could be found in the living room doing this again:
That’s all five of them grandchildren of the Foo clan. Even Hannah looks happily interested in what’s going on on Danyel’s iPad (he’s on Plants vs Zombies actually).
It’s certainly a sign of the times, and I guess we’ll all be wrestling with the new generation of digital natives who will be far more comfortable with technology than we were at their age, and it’ll come with all the accompanying challenges of responsible technology use.
Fortunately, while Hannah never fails to ask me in all innocent earnestness if her good behavior for the day has earned her 10 minutes of iPad time before bedtime, I’m still glad to report that she’s not actually ‘hooked’ onto it at all. It’s easy to tell; I just tell her I’ll like to substitute her iPad time with some other play activity and she’ll happily oblige.=)
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