I was surprised to receive a message from Nissa early this morning asking me to add Nate to my list of contacts on Messenger. Only Messenger is installed on my tab, no FB because I use it for my e-books. Nate prefers video chat where he can see me. Our conversation goes like this:
Nate: Hello Nonna (with so many love emoticons). I Love you.
Nonna: Love you too baby. so glad to see you online.
Nate: I am studying. (Nissa says he had live lessons a couple of hours ago).
Nonna: Study well and please don’t go out.
Nate: I won’t Nonna.
A few minutes ago he called me up again and he said he is on a class break. I asked him if he is enjoying his online study and he said, he does. Well and good. Nissa created Nate’s messenger account so they could talk when she is at the office. He knows how to send a text message now but is still quite slow. Oh my gosh, my message chat box is full of emoticons from him. Now we think of it, I know it is not that healthy to let kids stay too long in front of their tab or PC but that is the new normal now….online learning. They could adopt to it but there is still a need for supervision from parents especially those kids as young as Nate. A teacher friend told me that only two hours continuous stay in front of a computer is allowed and in-between they should rest. Nate said his class is until 1:30 pm.
This pandemic is changing lives and we are forced to adopt to it.
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