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What's Up Word Whammer?

Tuesday, January 22, 2008
filed under: taiwan-on

Jackie's Mom•Logic: Preschool toy teaches my kid spelling and violence?

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My three-and-a-half-year-old stands in front of the refrigerator for what feels like hours a day, playing with his Leap Frog Fridge Phonics. He just loves the accomplished feeling of making three letter words. But the other day, the toy that has catapulted his reading and rhyming skills to that of a five-year-old, suggested he put words together that left me and my husband anything but amused. Bum, Gun and War were a few words that he put together at the request of our fridge pal, Professor Quigley. I'm a pretty open-minded Mom, but while I'm not really sure where they were going with the word bum -- is it part of the anatomy? A homeless person? -- it's gun and war that I didn't expect to have to explain this early on.

On a side note, without prompting from us or the toy, our little word-lover also spelled out A-S-S, not realizing it was actually something anatomical. Professor Quigley didn't justify it with a response. Nice to see the Word Whammer does have limits.

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