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| The author of this book shares the same name (almost) with Mrs. I's father, so we thought this was funny. |
rlschultz has left a new comment on your post "Lasting Values":
Spending time with your children when they are younger often seems to produce interesting side benefits, as exemplified with your experience with the Atari. I had one of their game consoles, along with a Commodore Vic 20. I used to collect movies on Betamax and our oldest son does this in different way.
When growing up, this kept him out of the trouble that so many boys could get into. I had a black and white darkroom. All three of our daughters have taken an interest in either photography or art. One of them uses her creative skills in a bakery. Another works with custom clothing and the modeling of it.
Many parents would like to keep their children in organized activities. The unorganized activities at home seem to often stir the interest in children.
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| Mrs. LI took this photo, which is on Facebook. We are contemplating the intricacies of Internet Protocol version 6. |
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GJ - We had a darkroom, too. A lot of kids got to make their own light pictures and see them develop in the darkroom.
We had the most fun with the Atari and video arcades. Soon the home games were better than the arcade games.
One granddaughter could dual-boot (Windows/Linux) very early and now studies Java and Mandarin in high school.
We were not keen on organized school activities. Instead, we did everything as a family and had great discussions in the car - on short trips and long trips. I enjoyed the Atari games and often destroyed LI in them, but he took advantage of youthful coordination and energy to repay me in those same games. Needless to say, I was shut out by the same strategies I discovered.
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rlschultz has left a new comment on your post "Unorganized Family Time":
I would not want dual income families to take this the wrong way. But, so many skills used to be taught at home. The older siblings knew how to raise children. There were also babysitting opportunities in the neighborhood. With the prevalence of institutional child care, some of this is gone. Also, single parent families have halted the way that these skills have been transmitted to the next generation. Newer technologies allow the parents to encourage the children to continue to learn on their own. Formal education is important, but it is not the only way to knowledge. When family run businesses were more prevalent, children learned early many aspects of it.
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LPC has left a new comment on your post "Unorganized Family Time":
Huh? Your g daughter can do Java?
Looks like she knows more than the students I have seen so far.
I would love to have her as a student, I can probably discuss with her if she might have a theory on whether or not P = NP, i.e. polymorphic time complexity.
LOL.
LPC
