On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 04:13:49PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Why expose children to computers at such a young age? Shouldn't > they be running and jumping, playing with toys, coloring, cutting, > riding bike/scooter, etc, instead?
(Gosh, I never thought of that. Guess we should close down Debian Jr.) > Yes, I have 2 young children: boy aged 5.67, girl aged 4.25, and > yes, I am a database administrator (after being a programmer for > many years), and I've been very successful at it, while not having > been exposed to computers until 12th grade. (Although I could have > used WordStar to type book reports & term papers.) That doesn't mean anything one way or the other: you can't tell what your life would have been like had you started using computers earlier. Nor can I tell what mine would have been like had I not been exposed to computers as a child. Until one or the other of us can find a proper study, it's not really worth quoting such things as evidence. T
