LEAPFROG'S EDUCATIONAL CAPACITIES
I had dinner at Erin and Joe's last night. Erin showed me a toy that Ben had received recently. It's really cool ... some sort of A to Z LeapFrog deal. You press a letter, and it gives you the letter sound. Erin usually spells things out like, B-E-N, or C-A-T, you know the drill. As teachers, we think this toy is WAAAAAY cool, because it helps kids see the relationship between letters and their sounds way before they get into school.
"Joe found out that if you type out cuss words, the toy says, 'That tickles'!"
I just looked at Joe.
"I leave him home alone for five minutes and this is what he comes up with!"
Joe just shrugs.
Erin proceeds to hit the F, then the U, and when she hit the C, the caterpillar starts giggling and says, "That tickles!"
"Oh my gosh!" I say. "What is wrong with you?"
"Hey!" Joe replies. "Another dad did the same thing, obviously, because they had to program it to do that!"
"Whatever! Leave it to the dads of America to cause the LeapFrog people to have to do that."
Erin and I just shook our heads ....
"Joe found out that if you type out cuss words, the toy says, 'That tickles'!"
I just looked at Joe.
"I leave him home alone for five minutes and this is what he comes up with!"
Joe just shrugs.
Erin proceeds to hit the F, then the U, and when she hit the C, the caterpillar starts giggling and says, "That tickles!"
"Oh my gosh!" I say. "What is wrong with you?"
"Hey!" Joe replies. "Another dad did the same thing, obviously, because they had to program it to do that!"
"Whatever! Leave it to the dads of America to cause the LeapFrog people to have to do that."
Erin and I just shook our heads ....
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