My daughter relies on electronic resources a bit too much for my taste - but then, she's not majoring in English Language and Literature like her old lady. She needs those online electronic journal articles, all up to date and less expensive for the university than paper copies. But I took her to the reference library for her first research paper back in high school, so she's fine. Also, I trained her to use the closest resources at hand - my books. (We LOVE looking shit up in my 1926 Collier's Encyclopaedia.)
I like the idea of kids graduating to the internet at 16... but the, the only computer games my kids got until they were older were educational - Math Rabbit and the like. But when the son got Star Trek Starship Creator. And Civilization. I think there was a Klingon game as well. (We have a Playstation/Xbox free household.) I'm proud to say they both raid my bookshelves for novels regularly, the daughter more than the son. He and his gf are hooked on DVDs - nature documentaries mostly. So cute.
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Date: 2012-06-21 10:31 pm (UTC)I like the idea of kids graduating to the internet at 16... but the, the only computer games my kids got until they were older were educational - Math Rabbit and the like. But when the son got Star Trek Starship Creator. And Civilization. I think there was a Klingon game as well. (We have a Playstation/Xbox free household.) I'm proud to say they both raid my bookshelves for novels regularly, the daughter more than the son. He and his gf are hooked on DVDs - nature documentaries mostly. So cute.