it's going to be an interesting next sixteen point whatever years

[castiron]

The not-yet-two-year-old has figured out that when the iPod won't turn on, a reasonable thing to try is plugging it in to the charger cord.

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[sollers]

There is a tendency to underestimate the abilities of very small children.

At the other end of the technological scale, my younger daughter was only a few months older when she showed the ability at a Pick Your Own farm to select fruit and vegetables accurately at the right stage of ripeness, after being shown once. She even got maize right, which actually isn't easy. In a hunter-gatherer culture she would already have been a productive member of the community.

[castiron]

Our pecan tree is starting to drop pecans, so I may have to see how he does with picking out fallen ones that aren't squirrel-chewed or moldy.