I wouldn’t call it expert handling, but Caitlin’s been managing to get most of her food into her mouth with chopsticks these days.
She can’t open-close the sticks yet, but she makes enough of a fork-like position with them that she is able to get ‘em into her mouth. She is able to make the occasional grasp of the morsel; that will just be a matter of time before she will be able to grip all foodstuff, I reckon.
But the more remarkable thing for me is that she had worked out how to use my Macbook Pro’s trackpad!
Remarkable in that, since this is my precious, I very rarely let her out of my sight when she is “using” it for watching Sesame St podcasts. And since I haven’t yet invested in a good bluetooth mouse, I don’t let her use it at all, assuming she wouldn’t be able to work the trackpad- this kid has not been experiencing the human-computer interface as much as other kids her age. But I think she’s seen me use the trackpad enough to abstract-think my finger movement in the square of the pad and corresponding arrow on the screen.
Today I loaded the Playhouse Disney website and watched her interact with the instructions. Like a typical kid, she was “short-cutting” through the various screens not waiting for the kiddie voice to finish explaining how to proceed.
I think if and when I do get a mouse, I won’t be able to use my own computer much anymore… Just like how Hot Mummee’s already been monopolising the other time-waster: The tv remote.
Sigh…
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1 Moomykin // Oct 27, 2008 at 12:12 PM
Nice! Well done, Caitlin!!
I think girls do better with this wanting to feed self.
Micah still prefers we feed him and entertain him at the same time.Max is more independent though.
Oh, my boys can use the track-pad with no problem. Kids are simply amazing at how fast they pick things up.
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2 Ann // Oct 28, 2008 at 8:17 AM
Oh, the marvel of kids lately!
It was like, they were born knowing how to use the remote, make a phone call with the latest handphone and use a computer!!!
Times are changing for what defines a kid’s first “know-how”.
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3 Moomykin // Oct 29, 2008 at 1:33 AM
By the way, Daddee, got an award for you.
Please come by “my place”.
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4 Daddee // Oct 29, 2008 at 10:10 AM
An award?? Okay thanks! Will go check it out soon!
Oh, and by the way, in the photo above, I was showing my parents the footage of Caitlin’s school concert on the laptop! Not that you can see clearly, but you can see her and the others on stage with arms raised clapping!
5 lil prince's mum // Oct 29, 2008 at 11:51 AM
Wow! training for chopstick somemore.. great wor!~
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6 Daddee // Oct 29, 2008 at 12:01 PM
Thanks, Lil Prince’s Mum!
I forgot to mention that Caitlin did have a little training with the kids chopsticks before.
But to be honest she didn’t use it very much. But to be fair, I reckon the design of these were enough to teach her how and where to position her fingers to use the adults’ ones.
7 kouji // Oct 31, 2008 at 6:56 AM
very nice. i’m a big fan of chopsticks myself, and there was a time when i ate only with them, and not spoons and forks.
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