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[xiphias]

One of the things I like about small children is watching them learn, experiment, and figure out the world.

With older babies, and younger toddlers, they sometimes look like someone playing a text adventure

>TAKE LION
You take the stuffed lion.

>DROP LION
Dropped.

>TAKE LION
You take the stuffed lion.

>DROP LION
Dropped.

>TAKE LION
You take the stuffed lion.

>TAKE EGG
You take the plush egg.

>I
You have:
A stuffed lion
A plush egg

>PUSH LION
Nothing happens.

>PULL LION
Nothing happens.

>PUSH LION
Nothing happens.

>USE LION WITH EGG
You can't use those two items together.

>USE EGG WITH LION
You can't use those two items together.

>USE LION WITH EGG
You can't use those two items together.

>DROP LION
Dropped.

>EAT EGG
You can't eat that!

>EAT LION
You don't have the lion.

>GET LION
You take the stuffed lion.

>EAT LION
You can't eat that!

Comments

[rosefox]

I know a friend whose toddler is quite contented to watch that video over and over and over and over again. The previous generation was raised in front of the television; this one will be raised in front of YouTube.

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

This is probably a good thing. YouTube at least offers an element of interactivity. (Hopefully the various copyright holders don't end up shutting it down.)

[azurelunatic]

My previously-local Virtual Nephew was raised on "Yes and No", among other things. He couldn't get enough of that, and then he graduated to Strongbad (and learned what kind of a bad role model Strongbad was, and got grounded from watching Strongbad once after following Strongbad's bad example, & never did *that* again).