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When Should You Buy Your Kid A Laptop?
GuitarNeophyte writes "Marketwatch News reports that some people say that we should be buying our kids laptop computers well before they get into the higher education realm. Even as early as middle school. From the article: 'These days, it's almost unquestioned that college-bound students will tote laptops back to school. For parents of high school and middle school kids, the decision to invest in a laptop is far from given.'"
Other kids retaliate by stealing the bully's identity and linking him to Islamic radical websites.
Welcome to the new future.
Buy your kid a laptop as soon as possible so they'll get out of the house and download all of their illegal music, movies, and software off of someone else's access point (not to mention all of l33t spl01ts they'll be using).
In the future youth street gangs will stand on the street corners with laptops leeching unprotected wi-fi.
13 months is way too late if you want your child to have a solid grounding in computers. I got one of those motion activated mice and ducttaped it to my kids hand at about 2 weeks of age. Mounted a 17" LCD on a bracket over his crib so that he could see the screen. The little guy has amazed me with how much he's learned already.
It's the land of the brave, and the home of the free
Where the less you know, the better off you'll be.
Until you trust your kids to browse the internet and use their computer responsibly, give them a desktop and orient its monitor so that it can be seen by you when you casually walk by
Funny. I give my clients this same advice, except substitute "Marketing Department" for "kids."
When Should You Buy Your Kid A Laptop?
Tuesday, April 10th 2007 between the hours of 9 AM and 11 AM local time.