preece@ccvaxa.UUCP (12/06/84)
> Wait for your son's bar mitzvah to give him computer stuff; let him enjoy > his childhood. > Get him a boxful of puzzles (the old-fashioned wooden kind) better. He can > share them with his friends and learn some social skills; that will serve > him better than the little he'd learn from any 'educational' program. ------------ I have no complaint with puzzles, my kids have a bunch of them. But I don't think they're any better social tools than the computer. My six year old daughter plays with our computer with her 3 year old brother and with her best friend and when she goes to her friend's house she plays with their Mac (which, sadly, she much prefers to our PC). They squeeze into the same chair and give each other advice and help each other do things. It's one of a relatively few things she will do directly with her brother, at the moment. scott preece ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!preece