There should be an App for that!
Monday, May 20, 2013 at 9:14PM Okay, it has been a rant here that the kids are more interested in watching hours of Tamil Variety TV programs or nail polish videos on Youtube.
Wile checking the history recently, had found that the two of them had watched more than 7 hours worth of Nail Polish videos on youtube in just one week!
So when all other attempts to steer them to subjects like Geography and science during the hours after they just make it back from school had failed... there was only one thing left to do!
Find Geography quiz and science quiz apps on the iPad and play with them. It has been a very successful program, if one can call it that! The Geography rehabilitation program..
Today I watched with pride as Jr. correctly identified the Capital of Azerbaijan as Baku and the little one said Brunei's capital is Bandar Seri Begawan... Life has its little moments! They are able to identify capitals and flags reasonably well.
Next step, they have to actually be able to point to them on the world map. That is a work in progress.
All this app business gave me an idea, given there is no App for making them eat a quick breakfast.
We should have an App that shows them a mish mash of nail polish videos, my little pony, good luck charlie, an occasional geo quiz question, and every 90 seconds those should be interrupted by a video of daddy saying "take another vai (mouthful)!" or "another spoon" or "chew and swallow" or "why is the throat not moving!" .. the App should let me pre record 3 or 4 such 10 second videos which the kids have to hit with a snooze type button (or we could rename it the "I ate" button.
That app alone has the potential to improve the quality of our life 347.5%!
Sometimes I wish my day job was to write apps.. would at least write some for my kids. Unless there are some crash courses for old engineers whose last programming exercise was with Fortran 77 or C++ in the late nineties.
Let me know if there is a weekend course for app writing in the local area or online..
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Reader Comments (1)
Hello, My twins who are 2.5 years old is on the same boat. i initially thought as they get older it would get improved. However seeing your blogs makes me losing that hope. My parents who take care of them in the day time literally spends 5 hours just to get their meals(breakfast, lunch and 2 times milk that is 6oz) Dinner and another 6oz of milk is my responsibility which takes another 3 hours... I'm still looking for reasons on why most of the Indian kids are picky eaters and other kids are not... My doctors say not to push them. My kids will happily go starve than eating if I don't push. So without nagging, threatening(poochandi or Boothanai and other imaginary characters for my daughter and switching off the laptop for my son) there is no way of getting them to eat. I'm with you on the coding... May be I'll start my own coding :)