or is dd just a bit of a dimwit rather than the genius I like to think?

[stripeymama]

4 yo dd was given a "kiddy laptop" that you put cards in and it then asks inane questions for her birthday. Having a deep dislike of those type of things I wanged it in the shoe cupboard, where it stayed til today when it fell out when I was looking for my slippers. And of course she fell on it, "Oh mummy look, I thinked it had gone forever". I wish...
Anyway, she then got all upset because it asked the question (bear in mind its for age 3+) "Can you indicate the position of the monkey in relation to the lion?"
She didn't understand (I only just did).
Is it me or is that a bit beyond the cognitive development of 3 year olds?

that is ridiculously hard for a 3 year and I reckon a badly worded question for anyone

but on a side if it did ask nice easily understood questions why would you still dislike it when your dd likes it and it is exercising her brain

maybe it was too tricky for you and you hid so not to be shown up by your genius dd

That is a very strange question.

By this time of day most things are too difficult for me
I just can't believe that anyone would expect a 3yo to understand that. Its a V-Tech one too so you'd think a bit of research might have gone into it.

just the use of the word "indicate"for a 3 year old is ridiculous

LOL Just evenings - I feel like that all day!

LOL LOL i want to play this game

'At which cognitive domain was the Fat Controller working when he had Henry the Green Engine bricked up alive?'

'Describe the lexical ambiguity displayed by Kevin the Spaceman when he named his dog Spanner.'

'At what age should children develop past the tendency to errors such as Tubby Tustard?'

obv if your dd cannot perform at the highest level with these questions, she was unfortunately cuddled for more than 10 mins a day as a newborn, and therefore it will be Your Fault.

Complain to the company - you might get a free voucher!

I do hate presents that are not Parentally Vetted first [control freak emoticon]

lmao

Bugger.

I am a Bad Mum.

stripeymama - I'm with you on this. We have one of these stupid machines and I have hidden it under the bed because I can't bear it when I end up sitting there thinking 'wtf does it mean??'

And I don't even have the defence of it being a present.........we bought it for ds for Christmas because he so deeply covets DH's lappy it's impossiblw to use while ds is around!

We've got one of them (given not bought)! Ds1 (3 1/2) and ds2 (18m) periodically go and poke at it and are happy as long as it makes a noise and the lid opens and shuts. We've got another one (again given not bought) that's a "smart book" which "reads" special books if you move a special pen across it. (Un)fortunately battery running low so not being very clever at the moment which is funny. Hopefully it will die soon.

Who invents such things!?

I would advice leaving such toys out to play so that get broken sooner.