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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
Uh...........Do you make housecalls? I'm not TOOO far away........and I"m starting to get pi&%ed at the smarmy remarks about 'parents learning comuters. Like we're brain dead. We were smart enough to raise you little arseholes and in some homes pay for your education. If we have a harder time learning what came so easily to you, its because we were too busy working to support you to learn all the new gadgets as they came along. Sit with us, for cryin' out loud, and take the time to show us, yes over and over again, JUST LIKE WE TOOK THE TIME TO MAKE YOU LEARN YOUR MULTIPLICATION TABLES, etc...until we get it thru our heads. We aren't stupid....we're just learning an entirely new process.
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I never said I didn't think they could learn to use the computer. I just didn't want to be their teacher because at that time I only saw them about once a month. That's too long between lessons. I also wanted to be sure they learned the right way, not my shortcut way. Besides, they had more fun in class than they would have had with me.
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Originally Posted by slayda
Good way to stop that attitude is to put a hoe in their hands and tell them to chop cotton.  |
Oh no....the dreaded hoe! Every summer I ended up with blistered hands from that tool of torture. But we never grew cotton, just every other vegetable in the Burpee Seed Catalog.
Dreamer