Just touch it

Kids now days seem to be growing up so fast. They are really smart and learn things at a much younger age than we did, electronics and computers are almost as common to them as breathing is for us.

I have a few electronic items, a computer, my Kindle, well maybe I don't have so many, but I can operate them just fine, and if I ever get stumped our Grandson finds the solution and fixes it for me, rather quickly too.

He is quite the expert for a seven year old.

When he was a little younger Cindy and I had gone for a visit, we were just walking in the door, getting our hellos, hugs and kisses, when Benjamin asked Cindy "Hey Mimi, do you have games on your phone?" Cindy replied "No, but I have you on my phone" she then handed him her phone so he could see the picture of himself on the screen.

His thumbs immediately began working so fast, they were moving in a blur, you know how it looks when a car is driving down the road and it looks like the hubcaps are spinning backwards, or when you move a pencil up and down giving the illusion that it is rubber, kind of like that, I knew they were moving with purpose, but I just couldn't make it out, it didn't look real.

Just about as quick as Cindy had handed him the phone she took it back, and asked "What are you doing Benjamin?" He smiled at her proudly and said "I'm playing a game Mimi" I didn't know games could be found and downloaded that fast by a three year old.

Cindy was angry after that, and I don't mean angry mad, I mean angry birds, because she and Benjamin were now tossing birds or whatever it is that you do to make those birds angry on her phone.

After this Tim (Our son, Benjamin's Dad) brought home a tablet in hopes of keeping Benjamin off of his phone, he downloaded games and set up an account for Benjamin to download games for himself, they were all free on the page Tim had loaded.

Tim told Benjamin if he wanted a different game to just touch the picture he liked, Benjamin was not reading yet and this was a teaching moment for Tim.

A few days later Tim started getting emails/alerts on his phone, telling him of transactions on his bank account, Tim was working at the time and had a hard time checking into this right away, on his lunch hour he called his wife Elisa to ask if she had been shopping, she was home with Benjamin and hadn't bought anything.

Tim thought his account had been hacked and was getting ready to have the bank delete his account and stop payment on the purchases.

To make a long story short, on Benjamin's tablet Tim had upgraded one of the games for a small fee, his credit card information was now stored on Benjamin's account, and Benjamin had watched the process. Benjamin had switched from the free page and was now upgrading all of his games.

In addition to upgrading his games, Benjamin was touching the pictures he liked and downloading new games for a nominal fee each. Tim had to go through and reverse all the upgrades that he could, and return the games as mistaken purchases, and remove his credit card information.

Not all the games were returnable, and Tim was stuck paying for a few upgrades and a couple of games that were not free.

For about fifteen bucks Tim learned a lesson about storing his credit card information on Benjamin's tablet, and also a lesson about telling a three year old to touch the things he liked.

Tim was now the owner of a new game called "Big Boobs Poker"

Do you have games on your phone?