I suddenly got into a panic last night after talking to my friend Dan, who was saying that his almost-2-year-old granddaughter watches videos and can really follow them in a sophisticated manner, and that she has a ton of educational toys, including Tom the Train, and I started to think that I really need to get Rachel a play kitchen and an easel and a toy vacuum cleaner and shopping cart, and why am I being such a hard-a-- about the TV, she really needs to be way more technologically savvy than her parents, and I don't want her to be left behind when her other little friends figure out how to program their iPods and design knockout computer games at the age of 4. Whereas Drew and I are so behind the times that we still marvel over cell phones.
But as usual, I digress.
I was sharing some of these concerns with Jennifer, one of the teachers at daycare who has a 16-month-old son. The first thing she said when I picked Rachel up today was that Rachel refused to wear her lion costume when the kids went trick-or-treating throughout the school. Then she said that Rachel was so adorable; Jennifer was carrying her around when suddenly Rachel said, "Whew! It's been a busy day!"
Jennifer added, "She's really smart. No other kid said 'it's been a busy day.' She talks really well and if we had enough staff to be the right ratio to the kids, we'd move her up to the Beginners class. She's mature enough to handle it.
"Right now the most important thing you can do is talk to her and read to her." Which I do, so I will try to stop worrying about the educational toys and the DVD issues. At least for now.
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