Birthday present for my daughter.

Today is my youngest daughter’s 7th birthday.
For several weeks, she had asked me for the birthday present that she had longed for.
That is an e-toy which you can grow an e-imaginary beastie in it.

She wanted it because her best friend has same one and she always dangles it from her neck when they play together. Her best friend wants to communicate with my daughter through the e-toys. So she urged my daughter to ask me to buy one. My daughter gradually became eager to have one.

Every time we went to supermarket, she rushed to the toy department and asked me to buy one with pulling my hand.

At first, I had reluctance for those kinds of small e-toys because I believe that staring the small screens for long time is not good or even harm for little children. I myself have been troubled with my poor eyesight since I was 7 years old. So my daughter may inherit the gene from me. That alone makes me worry about eyesight, and I didn’t want to add more causes for her eyesight.
But when I tried to convince her that the toy was not good for her eyesight, she cried as if it was the end of the world. “I really want it! And I promised with my friend that I definitely buy it.”
I yield to her adamancy with a promise that she can’t use the e-toy one-hour stretch.

When she opened the present, she was overjoyed and danced and even said “Is this real life? Is this real life?” over and over.

But now I regret.
The e-toy automatically and irregularly “chirms” when she is studying.
That lapse her concentration.
Sigh.