On Mar 8, 2005, at 1:58, radek kosciuk wrote:
On 2005-03-08, at 07:37, Charles Martin wrote: [cut]Keep it in a room the children don't have access to. :)
that's the best idea :) as long as you don't want your kids to touch your precious, blink-blink computer :)
I don't have children of my own, but I do have friends who have kids. All of them (from ages four to nine) understand that the ONLY time they can touch the computer is when I have specifically allowed them into that room and am with them.
my son uses the computer whenever he wants. I don't care. I have computer in my office too so I store all my data over there, at home I have computer for fun.
This is not a comment on people who have kids, probably more a reflection of how I was raised, but I have to say it: I really don't understand the logic of allowing small children anywhere near something as valuable as a home computer, particularly one with sensitive or un-backed-up data on it. I can't picture it.
agree, but I don't store any sensitive data at home.
The next computer I buy will probably be worth about $2,000-2,500, but that's probably the sum total value of every xmas present I got for at least the first six years of my life! Entrusting such value in the hands of a child is, to me, like letting a six-year-old drive my car.
not really, if you pay enough attention to your kid and what it does then not to worry. Your computer will be safe and sound. The only thing what was ruined ONCE was the keyboard, flooded with a glass of juice.
Call me a scrooge, but I don't think young children have a sense how valuable the thing is -- to them it's just another toy. To that end, I'd let them use a worthless hand-me-down computer to run their educational or game software, but touch my workhorse? Not a chance.
You scrooge :) I only agree with you that kids shouldn't have access to the computer where valuable data is stored, but normal, home use computer is, for me, nothing but the toy. so let the kid play with it.
regards
radek
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I bought an old 5200 or something similar about a month or two ago so I can let a couple of kids use it. I paid about 15$ for it. Now I need to get a keyboard and trackball for it.
I plan to install Jump Start Kindergarten and Jump Start Second Grade in it. I look for old Macintosh compatible software that I could let the kids use. It will be nice to get the old 52xx running so the kids will not have to use their dad's Windoze noise box.
James
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