Is this normal?

My 3 year old knows how to turn on the computer, double-click on the Internet Explorer icon, then scroll down the address bar to find her own websites (nickjr.com and elmosworld) in order to play her online kids' games. Is this normal/common for a THREE year old? She's been using the computer since she was about 18 months old, when she learned how to move the mouse and click on things.

How many other parents have kids who do/did the same at about this age? Oh, and do you have any other preschool websites to recommend? She's getting bored with those two I just mentioned.

Answers:
Yep. My kids were on the computer, finding things from an early age. I think it's the amount of exposure to the medium - some kids can use the TV remote and run the VCR and DVD player by this age, others can read by age of three.

Question - is she finding them by shape of word recognition, or is she actually reading? I'd promote reading as much as possible right now, give her a head start for school and life. I could read at three, and I've never regretted it.

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yeah my brothers three and he can do things like that. i mean yeah hes smart but its mostly because he has memorized what we do to get him there.

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