7) One parent recalled how their 4-year-old managed to order a pizza using Alexa while they were trying to ask the assistant how to spell “elephant.” They didn’t realize until the doorbell rang and a pizza delivery arrived!
8) A mom found her phone gallery flooded with hundreds of nearly identical selfies. Her 5-year-old had discovered the front-facing camera and spent half an hour striking “model” poses and making funny faces, completely unaware that the phone was saving every picture.
9) Kevin O’Brien: “Liam, age 7, thought our car’s GPS was an all-knowing entity. He kept asking it questions like ‘What should I be when I grow up?’ and ‘Does Santa like chocolate chip or oatmeal cookies better?'”
10) A parent shared the heart-stopping moment when their child, playing with the family’s phone, unintentionally called 911. It resulted in a very polite conversation with a police officer who showed up to check on them—only to leave after being shown the culprit, a giggling 3-year-old.
11) One clever child, after overhearing their parents talk about online privacy, decided to take matters into their own hands. They decorated the laptop’s webcam with stickers, thinking they were protecting the family from being “watched” by the internet.
12) Amanda Foster: “Our 5-year-old son Charlie tried to ‘rewind’ our cat after it ran away from him. He kept swiping right on the poor confused feline, insisting it should ‘go back’ like his favorite YouTube videos.”
13) After becoming used to touchscreens, many kids today assume all screens work the same way. One dad shared how his toddler kept swiping at their big flat-screen TV, getting increasingly frustrated when the images wouldn’t move like they do on her tablet.
14) Gregory Hansen: “8-year-old Lucas set up a ‘digital lemonade stand’ where he tried to sell emoji lemons to passersby on the sidewalk. He couldn’t understand why no one wanted to buy his ‘virtual refreshments’.”
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