Grandboy: I’m Superman.

Me: You’re Soup and Ham?

Grandboy: No. I said I’m SUPERman

Me: You’re Snoopy Dad?

Grandboy: AAAUGH NOW I’M SUPER MAD

Me: I thought you said you were

Grandboy: GWUUUUMMMMPPPAAAAAAHHHHH

Grandboy has graduated to the next level: Making video games instead of playing them.

Nothing spectacular – at this stage he’s doing the equivalent of using sandcastle-making tools to throw sand in the air and bury the other tools. But that’s how kids learn, yep?

Roblox looks to be one of the best ways for kids to learn object-oriented programming.

His goal is to “publish games on the platform so he can use them on his own YouTube channel that he’ll host. The channel will feature the music he’ll create during his night job. Engineer by day, deejay by night.”

His words, not mine, haha

Grandboy: I have a girlfriend, you know.

Me: O, really?

Grandboy: Yah. She’s at school. She’s squishy.

Me: Squishy?

Grandboy: Yah, I hugged her once and she’s squishy.

Me: Boy, you’re too young to be thinking about girlfriends. And when you ARE old enough, don’t go round calling them squishy or you’ll get in trouble with ’em.

Grandboy: Even if they ARE squishy?

Me: Especially then.

Grandboy is teaching me music basics. When I sing a tune in what I think is in a minor or diminished key, he gets angry. Same tune, in a major key, gets kudos (yes, good JOB, Gwumpa) and he may even chime in to harmonise. Some folks pay money for that kind of tutoring, haha

Grandboy (playing a video game): What is that FLIPPIN’ zombie doing?!?!

Me (in a dangerous rumbly voice): WHAT did you say, boy?

Grandboy (realising the gravity of the situation): Oh, no Gwumpa I mean it’s really flipping over and over like cartwheels but forward, look Gwumpa look at the screen…