Re: [NTLK] eMate for my baby?

naw. just download babybanger

http://www.pure-mac.com/kids.html#babybanger

for the mac and let the kid play on a real computer. totally safe
and educational.

On Dec 16, 2006, at 6:34 PM, Mathew Howe wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 matthiasm wrote:
>> On the software side, it would be great to find a language that would
>> work on other platforms as well (I believe NSBasic does, not sure
>> though). This would make the development more reasonable since there
>> are more possible contributers.
>>
>> On the content side, don't expect a baby to even remotely comprehend
>> a letter shape. Their brain is set up to recognize faces, so they
>> find their parents. My three year old now starts to recognize two
>> letters out of the alphabet - so many more to go ;-).
> NS Basic also works in palm devices.
> My 3 year old grand daughter knows all of her letters can spell her
> own name and can count to 20. Grandpa gets to brag a bit. But I
> think you are on to a real good idea here. I might buy an Emate for
> my grand daughter just to run this software.
>
> Matt "Ducky" Howe
> mhowe@gfn.org
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