General Chat

Have my six year old Grand daughter Megan stoppimg, thought she would be a night mare, but what a surprise and what a pleasure, so polite, but she took over my computer, and is so internet knowaledgeable-amazing-gosh she makes me feel old.

Jennifer,you might of had your computer taken over but i have had my 12 year old grandaughter and she took my mobile over.lol Annie

Jennifer It's quite scary when they seem to be able to find their way round a computer so well. MY oldest grandson has just turned 4, but knows exactly how to work the racing cars game on his dad's comp! Angela

Scary isn't it Jennifer !!! I taught my 4 year old grand daughter how to get on to the CBBC website and now have to up my web access so no 'bad' words come up!!! Her mum is still trying to catch up. maggie

Our step grandson has learning difficulties and only has a few words in his vocabulary. Hes six and very intelligent and understands EVERYTHING you say to him just cant verbalise back altho he can communicate with a combination of few words and sign language Makaton. BUT he very savvy on the computer. so much so that daughter & SIL decided to buy him a PC for Xmas cos it would help him with coordination and c concentration. He loves it. They are being very careful tho that he doesn't isolate himself,cos of his slight autistic tendencies, and have put parental blocks & time out on the PC. means he can go online when he gets home from school at 4 till dinner time at 6 .

Thank you all, Shirley that is fantastic

My son is 4 and knows exacley how to go into History and get on to CBBC!!!!! Scary!! LOLxxx

My 14 year old just goes 'oh mum' in such a derogatory form she makes me feel thick as a plank when it comes to mobiles puters etc!!!

what more can you expect, at that age their memory boxes are empty and so have all the learning capacity at their fingertips..... Its shocking how quickly they pick things up.......and frightening sometimes innit? LOl Bob

Youngsters are so much more able than us oldies when it comes to gadgets and stuff, I think it is because we know we could do harm or damage sometimes if we press the wrong buttons etc, but youngsters do not have this fear. I will never forget when I hired a wallpaper steamer/stripper to get the many layers of paper off the walls at the house we had just moved into. None of us adults could figure out what to do and were afraid of breaking it, my then 6 yr old son looked at the diagram on the machine and said you do this, and this and this, and it worked!! He was just as good with the video recorder and of course, now he is in his 20s has all kinds of things to 'play' with, whereas I still struggle with a mobile phone! lol

my 5 year old grandson always wants to go on the computer when he comes here. I am scared incase he crashes it but he mainly wants to go on word just so he can do typing of all the words that he knows how to spell. I have saved that penguin thingy with the penguin spelling his name lol He thinks that is great and was surprised the penguin knew how to spell his name.

Jennifer Hello nice for you to have Megan staying with you. These children nowdays are s o clever it,s lovely to see my little g/son over 3 can use the computer i think it,s good to start them young ,as long as the time is limited June xx