On line on the road

My 8-year-old has a virtual stable where other girls of her age (mostly, I hope!) visit. There are horses and ponies. There is a little shop full of virtual horse gear. And there is a discussion board. My daughter has given the other girls a horse for each to look after. The girls write stories about how they've taken care of their horses. Based on the stories, my daughter gives them points. A good long story and she gives 15p, a short one and she may give none! The points can then buy stuff at the virtual shop.

Pretty amazing, I think. Improves their writing skills -- and web admin skills; at the age of 8!

Yesterday we went to visit friends. They live in the woods so it took us almost an hour to get there. My daughter was on-line the whole trip. She used the 770 to maintain her virtual stable and give points and cretits to the users. A regular cell phone in my pocket provided the connectivity and and I didn't even realize that she was online until she asked me how to add a bookmark or someting. I said I'm driving, honey, cannot help you right now!

Using a cell phone while driving without handsfree is illegal in Finland. How about being online? Well, this time I didn't try but the back seat did!