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Agreed - I've seen a lot of popular HN blogs on passing on passions for gaming, programming, media creation. It's obviously great to pass on skills to our child

Agreed - I've seen a lot of popular HN blogs on passing on passions for gaming, programming, media creation. It's obviously great to pass on skills to our children (I have a daughter myself), but I know that the best memories I have of my childhood are all non-computer based. eg. fishing with my father, playing soccer with friends, playing music in the pub. There will be plenty (too much) of time for screens in their adulthood. Teach them the joys of play while they are young.

tpmoney 6y ago
Screens can be about play too. My dad took me fishing when I was a kid. While I remember those trips, when he came to visit recently I didn’t break out the fishing poles for us to enjoy. I set up the C64 emulator and dug out the old games we used to play together, and over many hours we learned neither one of us are as good at them as we used to be. I remember playing those games with him as a child much more fondly than any early morning fishing adventure. What’s important is not what you’re spending time together on, but that you are spending time together at all and you’re both engaged in it.
- brudgers 6y ago
  Fishing was a metaphor for together that's not about getting ahead...I mean that's why nobody has taken me to mean taking a child on an Alaska trawler during crab season. When I played video games with them...first Lego Star Wars and later FIFA...it was distinct from my "getting your kids to program" attempts that involved Alice and Processing and Common Lisp and Boxed Knuth progressively...the last meaning they are fully equipped to get as deeply into programing as their interest and ability might take them. I used fishing because as a new parent an older parent came into my office on their business and because part of my job was positive customer service taking time to chat was ok and the older parent learned I was I new parent and told me I would never regret time spent fishing together and because my spidy sense told me to trust them I did and they were correct. Growing up in the south, I've known a lot of people who were recovering from fishing as something their parents tried "to do to get their kids to fish." There's a qualitative difference between an afternoon gone fishing and getting up early for a fishing trip I think. That difference is whether the terms are mutual and the relationship equal. Whether the goal is the time together or ambition fulfillment.

tpmoney 6y ago

Screens can be about play too. My dad took me fishing when I was a kid. While I remember those trips, when he came to visit recently I didn’t break out the fishing poles for us to enjoy. I set up the C64 emulator and dug out the old games we used to play together, and over many hours we learned neither one of us are as good at them as we used to be. I remember playing those games with him as a child much more fondly than any early morning fishing adventure. What’s important is not what you’re spending time together on, but that you are spending time together at all and you’re both engaged in it.

brudgers 6y ago
Fishing was a metaphor for together that's not about getting ahead...I mean that's why nobody has taken me to mean taking a child on an Alaska trawler during crab season. When I played video games with them...first Lego Star Wars and later FIFA...it was distinct from my "getting your kids to program" attempts that involved Alice and Processing and Common Lisp and Boxed Knuth progressively...the last meaning they are fully equipped to get as deeply into programing as their interest and ability might take them. I used fishing because as a new parent an older parent came into my office on their business and because part of my job was positive customer service taking time to chat was ok and the older parent learned I was I new parent and told me I would never regret time spent fishing together and because my spidy sense told me to trust them I did and they were correct. Growing up in the south, I've known a lot of people who were recovering from fishing as something their parents tried "to do to get their kids to fish." There's a qualitative difference between an afternoon gone fishing and getting up early for a fishing trip I think. That difference is whether the terms are mutual and the relationship equal. Whether the goal is the time together or ambition fulfillment.