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Unfortunately my mother trained herself mostly (I do block a bunch of stuff at a DNS level though on her PC), she lives with me and umpteen times a week: "Can

Unfortunately my mother trained herself mostly (I do block a bunch of stuff at a DNS level though on her PC), she lives with me and umpteen times a week: "Can you come here the computer/phone/ipad is saying something, have I been hacked" - no, it's telling you that you have an email, no it's telling you that you are getting a call, no that's your other son asking you a question... "How do I save something again" - you've been working with computers longer than I've been alive... click the save button "where" the disk "where" or go to file save "where is file" points "I don't see it" my finger is touching it!!! - Are you ^(!@#$@ kidding me - Look at your paper, you've written this down three times "How do I save something to my zip disk" - You don't have a zip disk, you have a usb drive or a thumb drive, you've never had a zip disk, I've never had a zip disk, zip disks were stupid and still are and I don't understand why Amazon has them for sale for so much! "can you print this for me at work" - no, I've told you this 37 times, go to FedEx office with your usb drive, I'm not printing 173 pages of whatever that is and risk getting fired I promise you, it's all a con. There's no way she doesn't know exactly what she's doing and just likes messing with me. I've showed her how to turn the volume up and down on her iPhone at least 100 times. You've got 3 buttons, figure it out mom! I swear I'm going to have a stroke or a heart attack one of these days while showing her how to do something for the 97th time. My brother on the other hand... when he still lived close it felt like every other week I was reinstalling windows for him. He'd torrent everything, click any link, open ever attachment... eventually I just blocked obscene numbers of domains and ran him through a 'family safe' DNS filter. I don't know what he does now, I guess his teenage step son has to suffer through helping him.

vorpalhex 7y ago
Don't baby them. Ask them productive questions in response - "well, which icon do you think is for saving?" You can guide them "well usually that's at the top of the screen" but don't take the device from them or do it for them. You want to teach them how to fish, not hand fish to them every time they ask.

vorpalhex 7y ago

Don't baby them. Ask them productive questions in response - "well, which icon do you think is for saving?" You can guide them "well usually that's at the top of the screen" but don't take the device from them or do it for them. You want to teach them how to fish, not hand fish to them every time they ask.