Teaching Grandma New Tricks

I came into the dining room the other day and found Spencer perched on the table sitting on my lap top, making a pretzel out of his granddad's reading glasses.  He was obviously trying to send an email and probably would have succeeded if only he could have worked out how to get the glasses on........ I have always been gobsmacked at the grandchildren's gadget savvy, from very young ages they have had great technological skills.  They could l take photos with their phones, put them up on Facebook, bluetooth them to friends, when me, their extremely intelligent grandmother had trouble getting a call through.  Josh is only in preschool but is on the genius level of the computer game he is obsessed with.  We should have realised he had a knack with devices, when his mum gave birth to his baby sister seven weeks early, I got a text saying 'baby in distress, emergency c section' I wasn't able to text back as the boy genius who was then only two, had changed the language on my phone to Danish the night before.  I couldn't change it back as the only Danish I knew had pastry at the end of it.  Eventually, we heard all was well, mum and baby were fine and though her birth weight was only 1.6 kg you would never know it to see her now.

I do however, draw the line at being shown up by toddlers.  The grandees and I were dancing around the kitchen one night when the music suddenly stopped.  No amount of button pressing, thumping or bashing buttons on the machine by me would bring it back to life. I hadn't gone two paces from the room when music once again blared out into the kitchen.  Our little red head Jordy, three at the time had stopped at the stereo, pressed the magic button the music started and the dancing could resume. I consoled myself by assuming it was beginners luck and anyway, although I am ashamed to admit it, I feel smugly superior to Spencer, cos at least I can send and email!