The E, the S and the M are all big fans of the Curious George movie, so much so that we downloaded the soundtrack for it and listen to it on various outings. One of the songs features a guest accompaniment by G Love (of Special Sauce fame for those keeping track).
So we had a chat in the car one day about G Love and what a silly name that was. The E asked a seemingly relevant question: "Does G Love have any babies?"
Good question I thought. Given the stereotypical, rock-star lifestyle I apply to social figures such as this... I speculated, but I didn't want to fabricate anything for the ever-impressionable E, so I said we'd have to check the computer.
Much thinking ensued on the part of the E resulting in: "Maybe you can ask your boss at work to ask his computer, then his computer will know and he can tell his computer to tell your computer, then we can look at it?" Astonishing.
At age 4.5, the E had captured the bulk of the technological and social constructs that form the modern day Internet; mostly that the Internet is a medium for people to transfer trivia rapidly to one another and it requires computers to make it go. To make matters more spooky, we had never talked before about computers talking to one another (at least overtly). Since the E still has fundamental issues along the lines of "where do the people in the TV go" coupled with "I want to be a person in the TV" I had obviously incorrectly assumed her grasp on all things techy were limited at best.
A virtue of all children is to surprise their parents with their ever accumulating nuggets of wisdom; watch for them, you'll miss them if you take them for granted.
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