Desktops: Poll: When did you first introduce your child to a computer?
- 5/23/08 1:52 PM
Poll: When did you first introduce your child to a computer?
by Lee Koo (ADMIN) - 5/23/08 1:52 PM
When did you first introduce your child to a computer?
Younger than 2 (Care to share the experience?)
Between 2 and 3 (Care to share the experience?)
Between 4 and 5 (Care to share the experience?)
Between 6 and 7 (Care to share the experience?)
Between 8 and 9 (Care to share the experience?)
My child still hasn't used a computer (Any particular reason?)
This poll doesn't apply to me
Six months old...
by smartipants - 5/23/08 6:50 PM In reply to: Poll: When did you first introduce your child to a computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
When my granddaughter was starting to crawl at about six months of age, we rebuilt an old Mac, loaded Baby Banger or something similar, and set it on the floor. By the age of 2 1/2, she was more computer literate than many of the adults I know. She was surfing the web (with supervision, of course) and playing games that would teach her early math and word and shape recognition. She would sit on my lap and video chat with relatives spread out across the country. She is truly a technology baby! =)
i will just do what you do to that little six months old ba
by emmyemoney - 5/24/08 3:58 AM In reply to: Six months old... by smartipantsthat great you just open my mind about my little baby of about nine months old. i will just do what you do to that little six months old baby that makes her to surf the web in less tha three years
When did you first introduce your child to a computer?
by kavonr - 5/23/08 6:51 PM In reply to: Poll: When did you first introduce your child to a computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
My daughter is a first grade teacher. This year the class had 3 assignments that required the use of Powerpoint. Apparently the school plans to use more computer time beginning with this group. Several children already knew how to change fonts, colors & print.
Between 4 and 5
by schulz - 5/23/08 7:04 PM In reply to: Poll: When did you first introduce your child to a computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
We had little choice about when to introduce our Grandson to computers: his mother was a web addict and if he was to have any attention at all it had to be in front of the monitor. When we got custody of him he used chatroom language and knew how to do a chat reply even though he hadn't a clue what he was doing. We immediately decreed our computers off limits except for one hour weekend days when we explored toddler-to-K learnware with him (also spent more hours than i want to remember on bubblewrap! gro-oan!). He was about 5 when we got him a computer of his own in order to keep him off of our business use machines...loaded it with all learnware and draw/paint stuff, NO INTERNET. So we did the ReaderRabbit and Candyland thing til we heard the tunes in our sleep...and have gradually aged him up.
He is 8 now and they are learning proper computer use at school, so now we have set up internet access 1/2 hour on school afternoons and 1 hour on weekends...only has links to select sites and one of us is within sight of his monitor frequently during his online time. I know we sound like paranoid fuddyduddies, but this seems right for our family. Last weekend he about blew Gramma away when he appeared at her elbow and asked her to show him how to do spreadsheets...seems he thinks it would help him with math! This is great because for now we want him to see the computer as a tool, not as a social substitute or his mechanical friend.
poll: age introduced child to compter
by greensouthern - 5/23/08 7:34 PM In reply to: Poll: When did you first introduce your child to a computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
as i mentioned in my response to bob's question - it was a great experience. my son was almost 3 & had always been in the office with us working so we got some little learning programs (sesame street, putt-putt, etc) and set him up in the office with us on an old laptop. in NO time he was absolutely comfortable with the whole thing & does much of his school work on his own laptop (bought it for him new 5 years ago). NOTE: he is not a computer junkie - would rather be outside playing, but since the world now runs on computers, we felt the earlier he got proficient with them, the better.
this doesnt apply to me
by b-rocker - 5/23/08 7:52 PM In reply to: Poll: When did you first introduce your child to a computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
but i got my first pc/laptop was when i was 4 years old but it was only one of those teaching ones. but i first started using a real computer when i was about 6 or 7, and im 15 now so yer. i would recomend you get your childs first computer/laptop would be around 8 or 9, just becouse they'll have a better unerstanding then when there only 5 or 6, cause they'll just think its a toy. but thats just my opinion.
It doesn't apply to me.
by samusgravity - 5/24/08 9:28 AM In reply to: this doesnt apply to me by b-rockerWhen I was about 6 months, I watched my mom use the internet and play Jazz Jackrabbit on our old Windows 95 PC! Then when I was about 1 1/2 I was playing all sorts of games (Elmo, Read with Me). By the time I was 2 , I was able to use the internet(w/ Adult supervision) , play games, and (when I was about 3) install new programs.
Introducing computers to young children
by rrelco - 5/23/08 8:38 PM In reply to: Poll: When did you first introduce your child to a computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
In our society today our young people must be able to use and understand the computer. I introduced my child at the young age of 6 and today he knows more about the computer as well as networking than I do.
If our young people are to stay with the times they must have access to a computer, but please remember this!!! As parents we need to monitor their use and where they may go and what they are doing.
The computer is a useful tool however the sick have found a way to use it in evil ways. So at the same time our children must learn they also need to be protected from the sick and the evil.
If you look computers are becoming a way of school, it is called Cyber school.
My son, now age 17, started using a computer at the age of 2
by camerams - 5/23/08 9:43 PM In reply to: Poll: When did you first introduce your child to a computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have four children, the oldest of whom is now 17. We introduced him to the computer at the age of 2 - we had some basic children's freeware on our computer which taught colors and matching skills. My other three children began using our PC at around the same age. They loved having the independence to play games by themselves (all of which were educational and all of which necessitated some amount of parental involvement and teaching at the beginning). We did not allow internet access until they were older and could access it responsibly. My youngest, now 8 years old, is only allowed on sites approved by us and placed on her desktop.
Can you recommend learning +programmes for kids 6+
by thomas charles - 5/26/08 12:23 PM In reply to: My son, now age 17, started using a computer at the age of 2 by cameramsYes Sir, I have an only daughter at home and sometimes I would have wished that she'd have another sibling with her!I,however, want her to be on her own.I was asking for some likely programmes that would help with her education yet be fun?She loves the dressupmix programmes but that's about all she's got!We have a Dell WindowsXP Desktop which we purchased last year!
Started himself on several formats at three
by gadgetdad - 5/23/08 9:53 PM In reply to: Poll: When did you first introduce your child to a computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have pictures to prove it. He now has a degree in Electrical Engineering but really loves the system administration aspect of work. His EE is just an attribute to his success. His early computer interests at three spearheaded him to be an expert by eight.
While in college he assisted his room mate computer engineering friends in assisting in their studies. The earlier you start them the better, there is much to learn and know and he loves his job at CNET.
Children and computers . . . My opinion
by Craig Scranton - 5/23/08 10:08 PM In reply to: Poll: When did you first introduce your child to a computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I am sure that anyone could say that I am NOT a whole lot of things that would make me and expert on the subject, but I believe that once a child is near three years of age, it is time to get some of the GOOD software that young children like and that is educational. I am NOT in favor of pointless, or in any way violent. I had good luck with shopping for VERY GOOD educational software for the kids I have raised, and today they know some things about computers that I need their help with. My experience with computers began in 1969 on a full time basis, so I am not totally ignorant, but there is an endless amount of knowledge a person can acquire using computers. For many years now, I have subscribed to and read one heck of a lot of consumer and professional level publications, and yet I feel that today I am a mere novice when it comes to "knowing everything about computers." Kids learn things I have never done, and sometimes I have to ask . . . "How did you do that?" ECS Madison, NJ
1st Computer
by forbein - 5/24/08 4:24 AM In reply to: Poll: When did you first introduce your child to a computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
We bought our kids a computer when the oldest on e was in kindergarten.
It was an Apple IIC. When my oldest went to 1st and 2nd grade, there were computers in the classroom, but the teachers didn't know how to use them. I always thought that was funny (in a not too good of way). The school bragged that they had computers in the classroom and were so progressive, but the teachers were not trained and the computers mostly gathered dust in the corner. My son taught his teachers how to use the Apples in the classroom. My son is 28 now, so that was along time ago and the schools and teachers in our school system are much better trained. Everything was new then.
Less than a year old...now she's 21
by daveHillman - 5/24/08 5:12 AM In reply to: Poll: When did you first introduce your child to a computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I introduced my daughter to the computer in the dark pre-Internet days. Mostly with games, educational software, and paint software. As she grew up, she was building web sites in the 6th grade and her own domain by the time she was in high school. She is completely proficient in Office apps, searching the web, and has installed/uninstalled more apps and games than I remember. Ironically, her interests are in the environment, the computer is a useful tool for her. Whe's one of the most talented PowerPoint users I have ever seen (and I teach the subject).
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