My three year old knows how to turn on our laptop computer, start up Firefox and enter the word Noggin into the browser. She finds her favorite internet website and she is off to the races running her fingers on the pad searching her favorite computer games of interest. Now we do monitor her and we limit the time she is allowed on the computer, but here is proof that any three year old can operate a computer. She is in preschool. She gets lots of play time – physical activity at school and at home. Sure some TV. These days she is into Tom and Jerry cartoons. Great stuff. And she is read to every evening with original spur of the moment, off the cuffs story telling thrown in for good measure. When she is unplugged she entertains herself or with her sister finding creative ways to rearranged the furniture into forts, cars, boats, or whatever her young mind dreams up. She paints and draws, plays dress up with endless combination of wardrobe changes. No family member’s clothing is safe. So what’s the big deal with a little computer time.

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