So, since you have a limited window to work with where the kid can't see how the modern world is today, this will be a 2 year old learning basic and/or C on a 4

So, since you have a limited window to work with where the kid can't see how the modern world is today, this will be a 2 year old learning basic and/or C on a 486? Their brains aren't ready for that kind of cognitive development at that age. You were a lot older back in the 80s and weren't exposed to people or society with much better stuff. Kid is going to see that dad forces them to use a 33 year old machine with poor resolution graphics and sound and is slow as molasses. Let me frame this differently. Your father or grandfather cut the grass with a sickle. Why aren't you doing the same thing? You can buy a sickle even now. Yet, you presumably use an electric or gas mower. Why not a sickle? Because a sickle sucks and it was fine for the time. Not now. PS. After a kid has frustrated out, it's already too late. You're never getting them back because they've already decided they hate it. Lots and lots of kids with parents who wanted to live through them again or wanted them to be a clone of the parent, and these kids rebelled against their planned lives. Same thing with parents who force their kids to eat a food that they've already expressed that they do not like the taste of it. They don't suddenly start liking the food when they are older. Listen to what they're saying, don't force it. This isn't the army.