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Thank you very much - I'll have a look at all the suggestions! It's not that they're not setting up the laptop - it's just a spare that I offered to give him.

Thank you very much - I'll have a look at all the suggestions! It's not that they're not setting up the laptop - it's just a spare that I offered to give him. However, it doesn't have a wifi card in it, and unless they specifically get him one, I doubt he'll be on the internet at home(knowing the parents, this will likely be the case). They have tablets, etc for that - my understanding is that this is meant as a learning/homework machine.

brudgers 12y ago
These days homework and programming tend to involve accessing online resources...and if the goal is to make using a general computing device more attractive than a media consumption device, gimping a laptop by not installing a wifi card is counter-productive. As a disclaimer I lean toward Thomas Dewey's and Maria Montessori's ideas of child development in that my parenting style is oriented toward developing my child's habit of making good decisions independently of my presence. I prefer dialogs to prohibitions. But that's just me.