The joy of text

[andrewducker]

To encourage Sophia's reading and writing we set her up with a locked-down chat application (Kinzoo).

With the result that she just video-called me at the shops because I was "taking ages". And then sent me this.

Comments

[cmcmck]

Awwww! :o)

[gingicat]

Aww.

[channelpenguin]

🩷🩷🩷🩷

Times have changed. At least sometimes in a good way.

I remember short weekly ship to shore calls with my dad when he was away offshore (for weeks and months sometimes). But they were very short.

"I love you" isn't a thing any of us ever say either. But maybe we would have texted it...

[mountainkiss]

Cutie

[bens_dad]

Is the app locked down, or the device ?
(How) do you ensure she doesn't use another app ?

[andrewducker]

Both.

The app requires unique numbers to add each other, and I get a notification if she does.

The phone has a kids account associated with it, and both Jane and I get emails when she installs anything.

[azurelunatic]

That's adorable!

Do you have a backup system in place so you can preserve all of these little gems, or is it manual?