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Well I'm puting up a little poll. When I was in 7th grade our school got its first computer. Of all things the thing to do was play "oregon trail". We would dial up the local county service on this big machine with a daisey wheel and stick the phone handseat into a modem cradle. Ever since that upgraded to commodore pets and played lawnmower, and then got my first PC, a vic 20! wow, i am getting old!
Anyway, I'm playing on the laptop at the kitchen table and my daughter comes over and says, daddy can I do the computer. Not strange, she sees me on it all the time. So I finish what I'm doing and figure I can go watch some football if I get her on it. So I type in "mylittlepony.com" It goes directly to the hasbro pony site. Within 5 minutes she was pretty much navigating this site on her own. Is this unreal or what. She is just about 4 but dang, I had to show her how to use the mouse for a minute and dang it shes an expert. Now, if she wants to be on the computer. I get her to mylittle pony or barbie or nickjr. I leave and i hear all kinds of kids music, fun, laughing, and shes intrigued for an hour.
Shes a november birthday so she got to start preschool this year "early".
I know theres a few teachers on the board...is this normal or what should I expect out of this?
Brad
Jessie had her own computer when she was 3. We now have here connected to the internet and when she turns 9 we are going to let her have her own e-mail account. I also had a Vic 20 for my first computer and I did my first computer designing on an Omegia. I remember running through my dads computer at work when I was a kid...I mean running through...it took up a whole floor of his building. my laptop has more memory and speed than that thing ever thought about having. It was fun to color on the code sheets. Did I age myself??? Talk to you soon.
M
Hi guys, both my boys started on computers when they were about 3 or so. We have educational software that they LOVE to play, Headstart, Sesame Street characters, music, letters, songs, my kids just eat it up. At their school, they have computers in the classrooms and they have scheduled computer time at school each day. I'm not going to say what my first computer was, I can't remember that far back :D
Wow. Just the word 'Commodore' brings back memories. We are all aging ourselves. Ah, the days of junior high. Frightening. Anyway, I've got two kids and they both started before school - Sesame Street computer games, Arthur games, Reader Rabbit, some pretty fun things. Scary when you're the parent and they're the kid and you want them to go take a nap so you can play their game. ha.
My daughter is 1 and I bought her games for this already. Pooh pre school and things like that.
I voted 9 cause I was 10 when I started using my puter!
My first experience with a comp was when I was eight and I got to play Super Munchers all the time! I LOVED that game! But kids today now learn at earlier ages, so maybe 5 or 6 is better.
Hey!!
Well, my dad works with computers, so ive been around them since i was little... my mom says i started playing games at around 3... and i started the net when i was 8
First of all, I've been working with computers since 1964 - before there were microcomputers - computers took up entire floors of office buildings....
When microcomputers were first developed, I got an Apple ][+ (with a low serial number) and started to write (and sell) software to small businesses.
When my daughters were 12 and 13 - there was no internet then, only bulletin board systems, and one of the local colleges had one that I wound up helping them with. Back then there was no software to monitor what the kids were doing....to make a long story short, one of the people logging onto that bbs was a 25 year old who offered to take my kids "to the mall" for a little shopping....luckily I found out about it (by reading their posts) and was able to short-circuit his little trip with them....once I found out who he was, I managed to find out where he lived, and paid him a little visit - carrying a baseball bat....he saw the light and never contacted them again....
in retrospect I probably should have let the police handle him, but that was back in the 80's, I was a lot younger, and took it to him myself.
Letting a youngster have her own email account is something that I would monitor - there are more perverts and predators out there now - and the ease of use of the internet scares me for our kids.....
Be careful out there - on the internet no one knows what you are.
Jeff
All right, I'll be the youngin' to say I started at 6 on a macintosh in 1988. Was on Prodigy Internet by 9. But my, how do I describe this, my boyfriend's stepsister's daughter who lives with my b/f's stepmom (the kid's grandma) is 4 and goes online already, has almost as long as I've been with the guy (2 years) so I would say pretty young. You want to start monitoring when they hit 9-12 or so, cause that's when I started hitting sites my mom didn't really approve of. Mostly due to spelling errors (the evil poppup porn of doom) but, you get the drift.
Anyway, I'm playing on the laptop at the kitchen table and my daughter comes over and says, daddy can I do the computer. Not strange, she sees me on it all the time. So I finish what I'm doing and figure I can go watch some football if I get her on it. So I type in "mylittlepony.com" It goes directly to the hasbro pony site. Within 5 minutes she was pretty much navigating this site on her own. Is this unreal or what. She is just about 4 but dang, I had to show her how to use the mouse for a minute and dang it shes an expert. Now, if she wants to be on the computer. I get her to mylittle pony or barbie or nickjr. I leave and i hear all kinds of kids music, fun, laughing, and shes intrigued for an hour.
Shes a november birthday so she got to start preschool this year "early".
I know theres a few teachers on the board...is this normal or what should I expect out of this?
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Brad
Jessie had her own computer when she was 3. We now have here connected to the internet and when she turns 9 we are going to let her have her own e-mail account. I also had a Vic 20 for my first computer and I did my first computer designing on an Omegia. I remember running through my dads computer at work when I was a kid...I mean running through...it took up a whole floor of his building. my laptop has more memory and speed than that thing ever thought about having. It was fun to color on the code sheets. Did I age myself??? Talk to you soon.
M
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Hi guys, both my boys started on computers when they were about 3 or so. We have educational software that they LOVE to play, Headstart, Sesame Street characters, music, letters, songs, my kids just eat it up. At their school, they have computers in the classrooms and they have scheduled computer time at school each day. I'm not going to say what my first computer was, I can't remember that far back :D
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Wow. Just the word 'Commodore' brings back memories. We are all aging ourselves. Ah, the days of junior high. Frightening. Anyway, I've got two kids and they both started before school - Sesame Street computer games, Arthur games, Reader Rabbit, some pretty fun things. Scary when you're the parent and they're the kid and you want them to go take a nap so you can play their game. ha.
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My daughter is 1 and I bought her games for this already. Pooh pre school and things like that.
I voted 9 cause I was 10 when I started using my puter!
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My first experience with a comp was when I was eight and I got to play Super Munchers all the time! I LOVED that game! But kids today now learn at earlier ages, so maybe 5 or 6 is better.
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Hey!!
Well, my dad works with computers, so ive been around them since i was little... my mom says i started playing games at around 3... and i started the net when i was 8
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First of all, I've been working with computers since 1964 - before there were microcomputers - computers took up entire floors of office buildings....
When microcomputers were first developed, I got an Apple ][+ (with a low serial number) and started to write (and sell) software to small businesses.
When my daughters were 12 and 13 - there was no internet then, only bulletin board systems, and one of the local colleges had one that I wound up helping them with. Back then there was no software to monitor what the kids were doing....to make a long story short, one of the people logging onto that bbs was a 25 year old who offered to take my kids "to the mall" for a little shopping....luckily I found out about it (by reading their posts) and was able to short-circuit his little trip with them....once I found out who he was, I managed to find out where he lived, and paid him a little visit - carrying a baseball bat....he saw the light and never contacted them again....
in retrospect I probably should have let the police handle him, but that was back in the 80's, I was a lot younger, and took it to him myself.
Letting a youngster have her own email account is something that I would monitor - there are more perverts and predators out there now - and the ease of use of the internet scares me for our kids.....
Be careful out there - on the internet no one knows what you are.
Jeff
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All right, I'll be the youngin' to say I started at 6 on a macintosh in 1988. Was on Prodigy Internet by 9. But my, how do I describe this, my boyfriend's stepsister's daughter who lives with my b/f's stepmom (the kid's grandma) is 4 and goes online already, has almost as long as I've been with the guy (2 years) so I would say pretty young. You want to start monitoring when they hit 9-12 or so, cause that's when I started hitting sites my mom didn't really approve of. Mostly due to spelling errors (the evil poppup porn of doom) but, you get the drift.
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