What My Daughter Will Grow Up Expecting from Technoogy: Part 2

Now that my daughter, Makenzie, is nearing the one-year mark, she is really starting to interact with her environment in an actively thoughtful way. Though going from crawling to walking is no doubt the biggest milestone yet, sometime the little milestones are just as exciting to witness.

For example, she is now beginning to assign words to inanimate objects (her first inanimate object word: “baseball” – thats my girl!).

And just yesterday I got her dressed but hadn’t put her shoes on yet.  I then walked into my room, leaving her behind me for a moment, only to turn and see her walking towards me carrying her shoes that she had found and picked up completely on her own – as if to tell me its time to put her shoes on now.

She has even figured out how to scroll through my photos on my iPhone!Watching the progression of her understanding of how “things” around her work – seeing those gears start to really turn – is amazing (and exciting/wonderful).

Then just the other day, she was playing with daddy’s cell phone (a very old T-Mobile phone which takes pictures, but very poor ones – and of course no touch-screen capability) – and sure enough, there she was touching the screen trying to scroll from the picture on his home screen to the next.

Mommy’s does it, why can’t daddy’s??

I wonder – what will she think of this laptop I am using that has a basic keypad, when she has grown up being able to interact directly with a screen?  She will certainly think daddy’s cell phone is the most archaic device as soon as she is old enough to recognize the technology for what it is.  Who knows, maybe she’ll even think my iPhone is too..  Only time will tell!