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Started by nelson
Wed, 21 Nov 1984 12:53
Responses to request for software for 3 year old
Author: nelson
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 1984 12:53
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 1984 12:53
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***************************************************************************** You buy alot of software to do things for your kids on the Atari. However, you might consider going to the library and getting copies of Compute or some other magazine that supports Atari. These magazines have alot of low level programs for education. The fun thing is to work on the program yourself and have the kid there to work with you some. I found that I and my kids have had some good times doing this. ************************************************************************** I know you didn't ask for advice, but ... 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. [Computer literacy is a great big crock, anyway. By the time your son grows up enough to really need a computer, it won't look like a computer - if it does it won't do anything useful.]. I may have flamed a little here, but I am serious in the gist of it. Thank you for listening. ****************************************************************************** My son is 3 like yours (born in 8/81). He knows the letters and numbers (from Sesame Street no doubt). I have Kindercomp and Facemaker from Spinnaker and My Letters, Words and Numbers from Stone. Kindercomp is OK, none of the games are outstanding, but there are 6 of them, so it's an overall good value. Facemaker I think is a little too rigid, but an older child might enjoy the guessing game part (it's like the game Simon of years gone by). MLWN is basically introduction to the keyboard with a cute animated graphic (one for each letter of the alphabet). I enjoyed it, but it grew stale fairly quickly, though it did teach my son the keyboard. I'd be interested in other replies you get. Dave Kallman AT&T Technologies ****************************************************************************
Re: Responses to request for software fo
Author: preece
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 1984 17:05
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 1984 17:05
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> 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
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