When Alexa Becomes Part of the Family

Occasional creepiness notwithstanding, kids seem to love Alexa. Jeremy Cornforth works at the State Department in Washington and is the father of 5-year-old twins. When he brought home an Echo, "We just told them it was a speaker, and it was a computer, and it could understand the things they said. They took to it immediately," he said. "There's a little power struggle now over who gets to control it."