Comments on: The Apple of Her Eye

By: Dad’s Phone | DDOE - Your Daily Dose of Ethan

Dad’s Phone | DDOE - Your Daily Dose of Ethan — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 02:05:02 +0000

[...] (Which is unrelated to, but reminded me of, Eric’s story.) [...]

By: Derek K. Miller

Derek K. Miller — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:17:06 +0000

Recently I got a free old iPod mini promotional T-shirt. The front is light blue, with an iPod scroll wheel graphic and nothing else. Both my daughters (5 and 7), on first seeing it, said, “iPod!” and started poking at the buttons to get me to “pause” and “play.” Without any prompting from me.

And while we have an iPod, it’s a Shuffle, and doesn’t use those exact controls, but they knew anyway.

What’s more, my adult friends did the same thing, and I had several total strangers say “cool shirt” on the first day I wore it. (Thankfully, they resisted the button-pushing.)

That is some damn good marketing buzz.

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:27:51 +0000

My 2 1/2 year-old twin daughters like point to my iBook and say “That’s Daddy’s apple!”

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 16:13:08 +0000

Reminds of the time my daughter (then two-years-old) would walk around the house with a dead electronic game and a pen, pretending it was a Palm Pilot, saying, “My Palm. My Palm”. At the time, I had a Palm Pilot.

By: Jules

Jules — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 15:15:42 +0000

You wrote “I”m thinking that maybe I need to spend a little less time on my PowerBook.”, perhaps it is Carolyn who needs to spend less time on your PowerBook.

By: z720

z720 — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 10:31:40 +0000

It reminds me a french sport newspaper TV ad, where a child is afraid by his father’s face because he always saw him behind the newspaper.

By: Gini

Gini — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 04:52:10 +0000

Reminds me of the winter when Erin was three and John was rewiring our garage. She described her father thus: “Daddy comes home from work and eats dinner and goes into the garage.”

By: DanielBergey.com » Blog Archive » Eric’s Archived Thoughts: The Apple of Her Eye

Wed, 23 Nov 2005 23:33:47 +0000

[...] 8217;s Archived Thoughts: The Apple of Her Eye Eric Meyer’s little girl thinks her daddy is Apple. This entry was posted [...]

By: Craig C.

Craig C. — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 23:05:35 +0000

Reminds me of this comic by Scott McCloud.

By: Marc

Marc — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 22:31:35 +0000

isn’t it said “children always tell the truth” ?

By: Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 22:17:37 +0000

A father can dream, can’t he? (Most. Awesome. Post. Ever.)

By: John Evans

John Evans — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:16:14 +0000

LOL, I have been there, for a good time the only english words my son knew were ‘daddy’ and ‘Apple’. Hey the brigth side is at least it isn’t Dell ;)

By: Richard Earney

Richard Earney — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:15:20 +0000

My sons first pair of words were “Apple Mac”

By: Maxine

Maxine — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 20:33:33 +0000

:-) Nice story Eric, thanks for sharing.

By: Eric Gruber

Eric Gruber — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 20:19:58 +0000

Classic. :D