ianw1974 Posted September 27, 2007 Report Share Posted September 27, 2007 My son has already made his choice of distro at 15 months old. OK, maybe it was the fact that I had this baseball cap and no other that kind of didn't give him much else of a choice! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaelcole Posted September 27, 2007 Report Share Posted September 27, 2007 My son has already made his choice of distro at 15 months old. OK, maybe it was the fact that I had this baseball cap and no other that kind of didn't give him much else of a choice! :D Cool My daughter 5 is into Mandy Spring.. Likes the new Background... Start them early, It will help when we get older and need help with the setting of the time on the Recorder.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted September 27, 2007 Report Share Posted September 27, 2007 My 6 and 9 year old daughters think Tux is sooo cooool. B) But then again they think my 1993 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme is cool too, so what do they know? :o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitchell Posted September 27, 2007 Report Share Posted September 27, 2007 My 15 month old son also loves computers...well...computer keyboards and the mouse to be exact.... the other week I got an old throw away keyboard from a computer shop, and he loves it! It's gotten old to him now, but for the first few weeks he would grab my finger, pull me away from my keyboard and over to his... the old mouse we gave him has had it's time being pulled by it's tail all over the house now... I love my boy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted September 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2007 Aye, my boy has a tendency to grab the keyboard while you're working on it. Or even pull the keys of your laptop keyboard. Lucky they go back on. Disconnected one mouse from a computer since he could get at it too easily. Most of my mice are infra-red or laser wireless jobbies, so they are OK. Unless of course he picks it up and walks off with it. Then I've got to find the damn thing :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted September 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2007 Cool My daughter 5 is into Mandy Spring.. Likes the new Background... Start them early, It will help when we get older and need help with the setting of the time on the Recorder.. I remember him being four months old or so and was in awe watching one of my Gentoo machines compiling. Couldn't get him away from it. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitchell Posted September 27, 2007 Report Share Posted September 27, 2007 I have to wonder in the end if this is a good thing... we don't have a tv here, and aren't planning on getting one... how different is a computer though? Still planning on giving our son the old laptop, with some version of linux installed, for him to play around with when he's old enough. Will have to balance it with plenty of time outdoors, backpacking through the bush (what we call forest and such in Australia), and spending time as active as possible. After all, it's us they're imitating. Ah well, the mumblings of an over-enthusiastic parent... he's not even one and a half yet...lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaelcole Posted September 28, 2007 Report Share Posted September 28, 2007 I find a balance of everything is better than complete exclusion from an item. TV can be good for some things and you can get a couple of educational movies on VCD - DVD to help with their education. On the computer the earlier they understand the basics the better also they have a sponge for a brain so it absorbs everything. Just dont let the little Australians or English use that horrible word COLOR.. I agree the 1993 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme is soo cool.. I had her playing with Gcompis as soon as possible. Now she can open the browser go to the bookmarks and select the sites she likes. (Cannot read yet..) Then play with barbie, Poo, And other educational sites i found. She prints and waits patiently for the images to come out so she can colour them in... She has less fear of the computer than some people in the office.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reiver_Fluffi Posted September 28, 2007 Report Share Posted September 28, 2007 (edited) Just dont let the little Australians or English use that horrible word COLOR.. It's COLOUR Edited September 28, 2007 by Reiver_Fluffi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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