I’ve talked elsewhere about the fact that today’s generation has essentially been born with keyboards & mouses (mice doesn’t sound right here) fused to them. My 21 year old cousin had his hands on a keyboard from the age of 5; he’s now a web designer. Our kids today know a language that didn’t exist when we were young. They don’t know writing on typewriters and mailing letters in odd large metal blue mailboxes. They’ve never needed quarters for payphones.

As for my own child, she enjoys shopping at the Apple store (preferably at Chandler Mall). We’re there often. (Mama says too often.) I will never own PCs again, and we’re quickly becoming a MAC family. Claire loves to play with the Macs at the store. Today she wanted to play the 5-7 year old games, and then she was excited, called me over, and showed me that she’d typed her own name. WOW.