My little Nino

With her sweet and innocent face she came and asked me, I want to have an e-mail!!

She is my little sister Nesreen, I was a little bit surprised not for a reason, but why would a 9 years-old child have an e-mail. I remember when I was her age; I used to play with friends, toys and read Mickey’s stories……etc. Oh I forgot we are in the 21st century, were children spend their time playing with  play station, games on the computer and watching TV that will almost destroy their little minds.

She told me, my friend has an e-mail and I want to chat with her! My reaction was, I’ll say that in Arabic “lsa ma f2sty mn el beda wo bedak t3mly chat” sorry cannot translate that. She used to see me using my computer, and learned some easy things about computers at school, but she doesn’t know how other things work.

What happened let me wonder will I let my children use computers at an early age?  I see very small kids age 5 or 6 using computers and playing games, which is okay. However, using the internet I might be a little bit concerned, and parents should always check on their children when using the internet. I might check on my son or I will check who my daughter is chatting with, so that she doesn’t chat with some ba****, liars..!!(Hmmmm)

Back to my sister, I let her use my messenger she was very happy with all those small emoticons and winks. And spend the time, showing her how to use some easy things. However, learning basic things about computers is necessary for everyone, I believe in the up coming years everything will be related to computers” hopefully in Arab countries!!” Even studying at school, kids can bring their laptops instead of books and notebooks “who knows what might happen” it will be much easier instead of holding theirs heavy bags.

So definitely I will let my children use computers at an early age, who knows maybe my son will be the next Bill Gates!!