Electronic Universe

There is a lot of electronic equipment in baby’s house. Two cordless phones, two cell phones, three Apple computers, an external modem, a wireless hub, one Dell computer, a TV, a VHS player, a DVD player, a set-top digital cable box, a Canon digital Rebel camera, a digital camcorder, two Hewlett-Packard printers, one Brother printer, and a ten-year-old shelf-unit stereo. And I will earnestly look you in the eye and tell you that I’m not very technically oriented. Baby, on the other hand, will almost certainly be technically oriented, already is in some ways. Not only does she have a toy cell phone, a toy karaoke machine, and a toy laptop computer, but she prefers the real thing. She wants to handle, and learn how to operate, our phones, our computers, our everything. She has successfully turned the TV on and off with the remote control, changed the channel, adjusted the volume, as well as called a variety of people using the cell phones and the home phones. You could reasonably assert that she didn’t know what she was doing when she did these things; and I might say back that she has a better idea of what’s going on than any one-year-old could have had a generation, or two, or three, ago. May the Holy Spirit accompany her through the electronic universe.