“Did you pause it?”

Cathy Wolinsky — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:45:35 +0000

This past weekend I was reading E. B. White’s “Charlotte’s Web” to my nieces. At two and a half and five they have had it read to them before and of course they have watched the DVD many times. They were attentively listening and I was enjoying the deliberate language and word choices that make it so worth reading. Inevitably we needed to stop for a bit for a bathroom break. When all was done and we returned to the book, I picked up the book and said I remembered where I had left off. My younger niece looked at me with all seriousness on her face and asked, “Did you pause it?” Yes, I wonder about the range of media and technology that will be available to her in ten years… twenty years…

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“Did you pause it?”