computer-kids

Directly from the UK, we have ‘swinnie’ from the chat room responding to an earlier post from ‘psionicarchon’ RE: ‘You’re Never Too Young to Start Goal Setting’ – the YouTube video and corresponding blog posts. He writes:

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Via the southern hemisphere…

My name is Rodrigo, I’m 16 years old and I’m from Buenos Aires, Argentina (I think I’m the only South-American, lol). This is the first e-mail I’m sending, because I found your recent video on children and technology quite interesting. I totally agree with you on sharing technology with children, and the younger the better. I believe my family got their first computer when I was 7 or 8, mainly to replace an old typewriter. We didn’t have Internet (not even dial-up) until when I was 10 or 12. I mainly played around on the computer, with really old-school games like Doom, MDK, and Interstate ‘76 :P. My parents never actually “encouraged” me to use and explore the computer, they actually tried to keep me away from it. It might sound like my family is a bunch of cavemen, but actually it’s because they don’t have quite a “technological” background and they thought that I was playing around, wasting time. I probably discovered most of the basics (like Google, YouTube, IM programs, etc) either at school or by myself, or from my three-year-older brother.

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