Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts

Sunday, December 6, 2009

A day in a life of Mom (with Computer savvy kids)

To anyone who finds the learning useful…
When the kids are not fighting over computer time and you know that something is very wrong, and you switch on the PC to find the screen looking like this…




One option is as Aurora suggested-just hang the monitor upside down and continue working.


For the ones who prefer more “in-the-box” solutions, just move the mouse left to right and top to bottom to figure out how exactly you need to move it to reach the right point when the screen is reversed (it’s quite easy one you get the hang of it).


Right click on the screen and scroll (with the mouse in reverse) till you get this menu.


And select the degree of rotation-depending on what your kid managed to do.



It’s simple isn’t it? Especially if you’ve had a couple of times to practice.


How on earth did they do it in the first place?


No point in asking unless you are prepared for an endless stream of:


But I did nothing…
She must have..
No I didn’t even go near it…
And I didn’t even look at it….
Oh! She is such a….


And if you are a mean Mom like me, you’d wait for one whole day before you let them know the screen is upright again!

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Growing up, going online..

While I wait for the day when the kids will have grown up, there are these moments when I look  at them and wonder if it isn’t it happening too fast!

Flashback..

Me naming each object I took out while cleaning the fridge, and Elena repeating them with a baby lisp…Eggsh, Tomatoess, Butterl, Juice, Papa’s Juice…noooooo..it is called Beeeeeerl

When did she learn that?
I stand corrected.

Cut to present…

She is just feeling her way around a keyboard, playing games, and asks if I can create an email account for her…

Days later,

I see she is online and ping her with a cheery Hi!
My chat window blinks:
Elena: … the red circle with a bar means I am busy. I can’t chat with you now.
Loverna: Your Internet time is up, please log off
Elena: Ok.
Her status changes to offline.


And I am really not sure whether she’s offline or “ invisible”

Am I being “Hyper” in feeling scared and wondering what next and deciding to supervise her net activity more actively, to talk about the need to chat only with “approved” friends?



And then I read this article on what can happen to any kid:
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/article6899975.ece

It’s on us to keep our children safe, and if I need to get hyper, then I’ll do that too…..