Recently, my sister visited us, bringing my niece (Georgia, 10) and nephew (Max, 6) with her. At some point during the day, Georgia and my daughter Niamh (who is almost 6) spent a little time playing girlie games on the computer. I didn’t think much of it, other than how nicely they played together, printing things out, doing virtual makeovers and generally having a good time.
A few days after our guests left, Niamh came to me and asked if she could play “that dressing up game on the computer where you put clothes on the celebrity cardboard cutouts”. I told her that I was sorry, but I didn’t really know what that was or where on the computer it could be found.
She replied “Come on Daddy, it’s easy. Just go on to Google and type dress up celebrities”.
Now, that is not the sort of thing I expected my almost-6 year old daughter to say! Don’t they grow up fast? Of course, being a Microsoft employee, I had to spend the next 10 minutes explaining why “we don’t GOOGLE honey, we use MSN Search for all of our internet information needs”. 
It sounds like moving on to Kids Programming Language is not too far away. Like father, like daughter. *grin*
NOTE: I cannot recall exactly what the search term she said was, so I am using artistic license. If I do remember, I will post it here for all you other dad’s with daughters… 
