{"id":481,"date":"2004-07-24T23:44:03","date_gmt":"2004-07-25T03:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=481"},"modified":"2008-02-25T17:47:30","modified_gmt":"2008-02-25T22:47:30","slug":"children-and-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=481","title":{"rendered":"Children and Computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/TECH\/ptech\/07\/23\/business.of.life.ap\/index.html\" title=\"CNN.com - Too young for technology?  - Jul 23, 2004\">CNN.com &#8211; Too young for technology?  &#8211; Jul 23, 2004<\/a> is an interesting story sent to me by St\u00c3\u00a9fan Sinclair about starting kids on computers. I confess I was a keen computer dad when my kids were babies. I wrote little HyperCard stacks that triggered sounds and visual effects no matter what the kids did with the mouse. I suspect they made no difference either way.<br \/>\nNow, of course, I&#8217;m the one who needs to be helped. My son kindly helped me play an online game against a friend of his (for research purposes) &#8211; he asked the friend repeatedly to take it easy on me. Despite telling the friend I was going to whip his *** I lost miserably. My son now tells me that his friends MSN nickname now is something like &#8220;IbeatRockosDad&#8221;. This raises another interesting phenomenon &#8211; my kids tell me that they all change their MSN names regularly &#8211; they don&#8217;t think of their names as stable identities, instead they think of them as little boasts, taunts, or jokes that change as part of their communication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN.com &#8211; Too young for technology? &#8211; Jul 23, 2004 is an interesting story sent to me by St\u00c3\u00a9fan Sinclair about starting kids on computers. I confess I was a keen computer dad when my kids were babies. I wrote little HyperCard stacks that triggered sounds and visual effects no matter what the kids did &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=481\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Children and Computers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}