I wrote a couple of days ago about getting Dylan 'connected' with online educational games on the internet. The more I search, the more I find, and he is totally fascinated by them all. Especially the ones on PBS. He loves the Caillou Train Game, Dinosaur Train's "All Aboard", and a Super Why "Three Little Pigs" game featuring Alpha Pig. I am amazed...simply amazed...at how a 4-year-old can catch on so quickly to clicking and dragging and maneuvering a mouse around. I thought my children's generation was tech-savvy. Now it's their children who are making us older folks not just dinosaurs but literally extinct!
One thing I have noticed is even tho Dylan's a very big boy for his age -- in to size 8 clothes and he isn't even 4 1/2 yet -- his hand isn't quite able to grasp an adult-sized mouse very comfortably. I decided to do a search this evening to see if I could come up with a smaller alternative and the ones I have pictured here called the Tiny Mouse by Chester Creek looks like it might fill the bill for both of us. Not only is it advertised for kids but it's also supposed to be very comfortable for us more advanced in years who have arthritis in our hands and fingers, like I do. I also have the disadvantage of being totally left-handed and was forced in the 1980s by a boss to learn how to do 10-key and the mouse right-handed. Maybe a smaller less-bulky mouse will help me be a little more coordinated with scrolling and all that. I have tried switching my mouse to use left-handed but it scrambled my brain so much learning to do it right-handed to begin with I don't want to scramble up what brain cells I still have left any further. I had to bring an adding machine home to use every evening after work to punch in telephone numbers to learn 10-key. I would go to sleep dreaming about numbers and wake up thinking about numbers. All that on top of being a mom, a wife, and trying to run a household as well as an 8-hour job every day. I would practice for a couple hours every evening. It was a time in my life I was so sleep-starved that a good portion of that decade is a blur to me. Back then you couldn't complain about stuff like that in the work place. You shut up and did your job.
So...I ordered one and it should arrive in the next few days.
4 told me what they're thinking:
Oh, goodness! A mouse for kids (and seniors)! What will they think of next?
When I was still using a computer with a mouse, I used the mouse with my left hand. But I'm not really left-handed — more ambidextrous. I write with my right hand — always have — but bat both ways when playing ball. Go figure.
Have fun with your (I mean Dylan's) new mouse.
Good for you! I´m sure you and Dylan will love it.
You are so right about kids. Hardly anything is surprising me nowadays.
I have a lefty child.
Never thought about how the numbers keypad is on the right. :)
My tech support guy at work is a lefty. He's constantly moving my mouse when he "fixes" my computer.
Instead of spending money on a branded "child" mouse, I think laptop mice are the smaller size. They might not be special colors, but you should be able to pick one up quite cheaply. The Man swears by Logitec, but any of those mini-mice are probably pretty much identical anyway.
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