Without detracting from mediaman's politeness post, this is an interesting topic. First off, I rabidly limit the "screen time" my kid gets. That's the sum of

Without detracting from mediaman's politeness post, this is an interesting topic. First off, I rabidly limit the "screen time" my kid gets. That's the sum of TV, computer and (nowadays) my iPhone. I'd much rather have him wandering the great outdoors. When he uses the computer, he's got a set of sites that he likes and tends to stick to them. We'll collaboratively use Google to find answers to stuff, but he won't typically do it on his own. He recognizes that as parent-kid activity. I think this is a positive thing. The "google" is actually about three years old, when I was considering interviewing there and all roads led there. I suspect (and I hope the Googler's appreciate this!) that part of the question was based on how funny of a word it is. Especially drawn out: Goooooooooooooooooogle. Now he knows multiple people there, including his Godfather. But the money comment is all part of who he is. He loves money: counting it, trading it, scheming about it. He's not worried about money, but he is fascinated by it. He spent more time coming up with the pricing scheme for his lemonade stand than actually operating it. Think Alex P. Keaton. Then again, he's also fascinated by dinosaurs and how we'd repel their attacks, so I'm not too concerned. And he knows that I work for myself and that people normally get paid by bosses. So the leap of how does LuckyCal make money struck me as very natural. While I can imagine us having had such a discussion in front of him, I don't think we have. Instead, when he discusses it at all, he's always been very focussed on the application's social elements. In any case, while I appreciate mediaman sticking up for my kid, I tend not to worry about it too much. I wondered aloud to my mom recently that I thought he was smarter than I was. I expected her to rush to my defense. Instead, she agreed with me. And I'm pretty damn smart.