Kids adopt to new tech SO FAST

[27MaD]

My wife is pregnant and our daughter will be born on October 30th, she warned me that if she sees our daughter in front of a PC because of me i am a dead Man

I'm 15 , and i don't want to get married in the future for this reason , i'll always stay in the front of this machine , without any responsibilities.

 

[Durvelle27]

She said one is enough two are too much

Well my first daughter is going on 6 years old (September 21st) and she could care less about computers and stuff. She just like watching videos and reading. When I’m tinkering she just looks at me and says welp dads fixing stuff again and walks away.

I'm 15 , and i don't want to get married in the future for this reason , i'll always stay in the front of this machine , without any responsibilities.

Not true

I spend hours in frnot of a game console or PC and my Wife could care less ie she wasn’t always that accepting

Just takes time and a lot of annoyances

 

[27MaD]

Well my first daughter is going on 6 years old (September 21st) and she could care less about computers and stuff. She just like watching videos and reading. When I’m tinkering she just looks at me and says welp dads fixing stuff again and walks away.


Not true

I spend hours in frnot of a game console or PC and my Wife could care less ie she wasn’t always that accepting

Just takes time and a lot of annoyances

Well , u have to spend some time with your wife .

 

[cadaveca]

All four of my kids take top marks in their schools for their grades. The real key to their success? Taking them to the library every weekend, which exposes them to a broader vocabulary and a sideline experience to many different looks at life through the eyes of hundreds of authors. They all have PCs... but they all spend more time with their noses in a book, by their own choice. As many of you have seen over the years, my one daughter has a hearing disability and has had many many surgeries to help with that. She does better than all the rest.

Teaching your kids what "no" really means very early helps a lot, but having confidence is a big part too. I couldn't be prouder of my kids, and I tell them often. Are they perfect? Far from it. Yet sharing in their success is so rewarding, I find it truly hard to understand why anyone would not want kids. I invest a huge amount of time into them though, and they are my #1 priority...everything else comes a far second. I guess maybe you get what you give? Too bad so few other parents invest as much as we do into our kids, because I'd really like to compare notes with other parents that do the same as we do to support our children's growth. The one family that does... also has kids with top marks, but one comparison is hardly a "scientific" compare.

 

[Durvelle27]

Well , u have to spend some time with your wife .

Correct “SOME”

 

[phill]

Well my first daughter is going on 6 years old (September 21st) and she could care less about computers and stuff. She just like watching videos and reading. When I’m tinkering she just looks at me and says welp dads fixing stuff again and walks away.

My daughter is getting pretty into the PC stuff when I do play around with whilst she's down with me, we sadly don't get that much time together at the moment (long story, but won't bore you with all that rubbish) but I've got her loading up the server, practising replacing drives and when she was about 4, she put together a very basic but simple PC together, one of the E-350 AMD systems, works and does all she'd really need with it but that said, now I do have a new build for her, so I might try and get her putting that together.. I'm sure she'll be trying to play on Roblox or something or other I thought it was Minecraft that was meant to be cool??

Isabelle was 6 on the 21st August, she's got a geeky Dad, she will always be into tech in someway I'm sure!!

My wife is pregnant and our daughter will be born on October 30th, she warned me that if she sees our daughter in front of a PC because of me i am a dead Man

Congratulations!!
I think Isabelle had a laptop and desktop PC by the time she was about 4 years old.. New AMD Ryzen system on the way next!!

 

[qubit]

@xkm1948 Nah, it's the cat wot's the business! Yes, I love cats.

But seriously, it's great to see her take to it as she should be very comfortable around computers as she grows up.

The only caution I'll give is to not let her use it for too long at one sitting. Young children's vision is still developing and it's possible that she could develop a lazy eye over too much use. I'm thinking of my friend's 11 year old daughter who's glued to her iPad and now has the condition, plus her dad said the doctor said this was the likely cause. Granted it's not 3D, but it causes the eyes to point towards each other significantly due to the short focal length that's the problem.

With 3D and VR especially, the main problem that causes nausea etc and possibly lazy eye in kids, is that the physical focal distance is different to the visual focal distance, whereas in real life they're always the same. The brain finds this hard to process which is why it can lead to these conditions. This is why some manufacturers of 3D TVs have warnings and disclaimers about kids and 3D use in the manual.

 

[FireFox]

Congratulations!!

Thanks

 

[Durvelle27]

My daughter is getting pretty into the PC stuff when I do play around with whilst she's down with me, we sadly don't get that much time together at the moment (long story, but won't bore you with all that rubbish) but I've got her loading up the server, practising replacing drives and when she was about 4, she put together a very basic but simple PC together, one of the E-350 AMD systems, works and does all she'd really need with it but that said, now I do have a new build for her, so I might try and get her putting that together.. I'm sure she'll be trying to play on Roblox or something or other I thought it was Minecraft that was meant to be cool??

Isabelle was 6 on the 21st August, she's got a geeky Dad, she will always be into tech in someway I'm sure!!



Congratulations!!
I think Isabelle had a laptop and desktop PC by the time she was about 4 years old.. New AMD Ryzen system on the way next!!

Nope my oldest doesn’t really care about tech

Hell even my wife is hard to get to sit down and show her different techy things.

 

[27MaD]

I love cats.

Nah , u love to WASH DOGS.

 

[phill]

It's a shame if they don't share an interest but maybe when they are older they might?

Isabelle and I are always being daft and silly.. I mean, I think the pic below shows how daft we are pretty well

Can't wait to see my little lady tomorrow evening... Ah

 

[27MaD]

It's a shame if they don't share an interest but maybe when they are older they might?

Isabelle and I are always being daft and silly.. I mean, I think the pic below shows how daft we are pretty well

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Can't wait to see my little lady tomorrow evening... Ah

Oh , looks like u have an Extended ATX girl , she fits very well.

 

[qubit]

Nah , u love to WASH DOGS.

Shhh, don't tell anyone!

 

[27MaD]

high schools (and, sadly, universities) have to ban smartphones during classes.

Believe it or not , in my country smartphones are forbidden in all schools , if a teacher or anyone caught you using your smartphone , u will eat $H!T , and your smartphone will be confiscated.

 

[Space Lynx]

The Chinese actually have schools where they don't let kids use VR, computers, or tv's /tablets of any kind, because its been proven it leads to nearsightedness. So your daughter will prob need glasses eventually, depending how many hours she is in front of a screen / how close she is in front of a screen. Doesn't affect us older folks, only the development period.

 

[xkm1948]

She only got like 20 mins max they she was dragged off by her mom. So yeah.

Meanwhile I am planning to get her this, gotta pass on that molecular genetics research to the younger generations.

Those surplus scientific equipment sales from Universites are quite cheap. Won't take long to fix them up so I can teach her all about the cells

 

[Mussels]

my almost 4 year old is the same, he uses my laptop for youtube and likes some of the less interactive VR games

 

[John Naylor]

My kids have been exposed to PCs since the time they could waddle. But, was careful to give them opportunity to other avenues of stimulation. The Mercer mayor CD Rom based story books were their favorite ... click on a chimney and it tooted, click on a beach blanket and a grouchy crab came out. Equal time was give to actual touch and feel type toys, and they spent as much time as those to combined doing stuff with other children at the playground. Now in their twenties, they have varying groups of friends ...

28 year old is a pilot ... he shares his times amongst his piloting friends, he helps run a non-profit helping kids with cancer, has a "Jock group" and a "online community" of friends he plays competitive flying and shooters with ..... 26 year old works a lot burning the midnite oil trying to advance his career, also has nerd group of fantasy role player games ... online and board. Also has an off roading group that does, well you can guess and spends much of his time doing GF stuff.. The youngest (22) is too busy with work and college to spend much time doing other things. But what little time he has is split between GF and gaming.

As a former scoutmaster and little league coach, I'm always running into kids who Id frequently see when my kids were younger So many of these kids severely lacking in social skills because they just forgot how to talk to real live people. So while exposure to tech is a wonderful thing, allowing participation to the exclusion of all else is all to often stunting their growth as a person.

 

[Atomic77]

I was literally geeked at birth. Technology was just starting to get a foothold in the world as I grew up. It is true that early exposer to tech at a very young age can be harmful.

 

[Caring1]

The Chinese actually have schools where they don't let kids use VR, computers, or tv's /tablets of any kind, because its been proven it leads to nearsightedness.....

You sure that's not just genetics with Asians?

 

[Toothless]

I am a child


I should note this post wasn't actually made by me, but someone else got a hold of my phone. However the statement is true either way.

 

[king of swag187]

aww
This is too cute! In a few years, she'll have her own LAN tournaments!

 

[Ruru]

Don't have kids and for now I'm happy with that, I'm 28 so I'm more or less a kid myself.

Tho my ex's old cat (RIP that furball, heard that he died some time ago) liked to chill on top of my PC pretty much, though sometimes when playing games it drove me nuts when the cat's paw hit the power switch (Define R2 case, button on top), fixed that problem with Scythe's Kama Panel which has also a power button, and removed the case's button. No more shutdowns by cat! That cat also liked to chill next to me when I played PS2.

Also the cat often used to walk around on my keyboard, and you sure know what kind of crap that can do when you have your PC running 24/7 like me, and often I forgot to press Win + L

 

[Space Lynx]

You sure that's not just genetics with Asians?

pretty sure its not just Asian related. no one in my family has glasses but me and I have done nothing but stare at a screen my whole life lol and im not asian. im caucasian, so maybe that counts as asian lol

 

[cornemuse]

I do not do online banking etc. 'cause of what my kid with my (new at the time) 386 pc with 4 megs ram & Dos 5. He was 9-10 at the time, it scared me what he could do, , , , he's a good kid (36 now!), with a good mindset, but not all people are like-minded.

(edit: and a 14.4 modem!)