My 2 year old daughter likes to watch when I play the DS Lite, a.k.a. “the little tv”. One day she decided that she wanted to play the DS Lite. I told her that she wouldn’t understand how to play it because she is only 2 years old. Being as stubborn as her old man, she insisted on trying, and is now a New Super Mario Bros. (minigames) champ. She knows how to play almost all the minigames and how to switch between them. I guess the d-pad is still a foreign concept, but using the stylus to play the minigames is like second nature.

My wife popped into the office a few days ago while I was filing some old paperwork and started laughing – I didn’t get it until I turned around and saw Sydney sitting like this playing the DS Lite. I shed a solitary tear of joy that day.