Generation Z
Originally uploaded by kitakitts
It has been months since the little girl inherited my old unit. We were thinking it'll help the little girl improve her reading and spelling skills all the while encouraging her to express her thoughts and feelings via text messages. Really, it's not a status symbol kind of thing otherwise we would've given her an iPhone haha.
For practical reasons, we bought a prepaid sim card from the same network. Her phonebook contains numbers from people we know and mostly family members. We specifically instructed her to only send and reply to the ones in her phonebook and never accept calls from numbers only.
She sends around 2-3 messages a day. Most of the times I had to help her spell some words but she has a great recall and won't need the word to be spelled out again next time. On lazy days, she'll just send generic messages like "I love you" or "I miss you". (we have yet to teach her the templates feature). At times she'd share that she has guessed correctly the side from a toss coin game. It was kind of sweet-- receiving random and simple messages from the little girl.
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