How to Teach Tech to Kids Part 2
First like learning to walk, it is much easier to learn when you are little than when you get older. And I would certainly say that I was a kid today. I would just be dying. I mean serious this is just so, it is good time to be intact right now. I am glad on my age, I glad I am I was raised the way I was but certainly every year that goes by it gets better, faster, easier, so much more prevalent in our daily lives and if I had the ability to learn and absorb these things, much like I could have done as a child I would be all over this.
Number two, it is a fact of life your kids will be using technology for the rest of his or her life. And the ability to adapt to a new technology will be made much easier if they use technology at an earlier age. Example, I after using computers for the past19 years and as she notes can pick up just about any technology and within five minutes have a basic idea of how it to use, what to do with it and how to program information into it.
I feel that ability would have been dwarfed had I not started using computers on an early age. You have to understand two of that and I think and I she and I are both seemingly adults and then Amy is 20 years old. She says, she did not know if age is important but certainly she been through childhood. I am 34 years old so, 14 years older than that. And I have grown up as much as home technology has grown up at least what we have known is modern home technology. And I just loved it. Always love it and have had very little issues on picking up new things.
Number one, letting your child use the computer gives you the opportunity to spend the quality time with them and allows you to let them know what you know. As well as, allows you to know what they know. By sitting with your child when he or she is learning to play the computer, it allows you to communicate with them what a tool and opportunity the computer has or is, what that holds and as a parent you have the power to shape your child’s outlook on how to use the computer.
Example, she noted in her paragraph which will be including that she had been mentored by her grandfather. And as long as those lines are communication are completely open. I honestly think the sky is the limit and I know that some of adults are a little intimidated when well either their children or certainly people younger than they no more. I think it is sort of empowering, it is good to know that these younger generations are being lost to video games. And I know a lot of people video games. But that is just a small part of what can be gained from technology, even though they may spend most of their times playing those games and talking about it in the chat rooms.
No matter, if you are a parent, you have some more tips to pass along in terms of how you have done your best to incorporate technology in your child’s life or maybe just the opposite if you have not really opened that world to your child, you may have your reasons, I will just be curious to know.
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