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What's excites us is that he is getting the kids excited in something important. He is showing the kids that they can have their OWN computer -- like Dad -- ins
by no_more_death 14y ago
What's excites us is that he is getting the kids excited in something important. He is showing the kids that they can have their OWN computer -- like Dad -- instead of promoting the "exclusive priesthood" concept of computer programming.
What if your dad pretended as if cars were a black box, "don't touch them!" and you are never allowed to look under the hood? You will have a very different outlook on life than if your dad had you help with the tools and showed you what they do and how they fit together, or sat you on his lap in the driver's seat every now and then while the car is parked and let you pull the steering wheel this way and that.
Unfortunately, most people probably promote the "don't touch it!" mentality.
- cookiecaper 14y ago>Unfortunately, most people probably promote the "don't touch it!" mentality. Because computers are black boxes to most adults. They don't want their child to touch it because they wouldn't know how to resolve the problems that may occur. When the adult nearly breaks something every time he/she touches it, they are definitely going to be worried about letting kindergarten-aged children touch it.
- geon 14y agoTo be fair, my then two y.o. son locked me out of my iPod touch by enabling the internet access restriction. Without the pass code, there was nothing else to do than to re-install the os. He is still allowed to play with it, but I won't let him touch my phone.
- AlexDanger 14y agoOnce the father gives them a copy of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle maintenance they'll be tinkerers for life.