He'll be homeschooled starting this fall and so he will definitely learn to read. I was homeschooled K-12 and while there are a few areas where doing everything at home is not the best solution (chem/bio/other science labs & some social activities), I wouldn't trade it for anything.
I'm in college and I have a 5 yr old brother who LOVES HotWheels cars. Not many of my collection survived to go to him (another brother in the middle), but he has dozens of them and plays with them all the time. That doesn't mean that he won't jump at the opportunity to play/watch me play any Star Wars game (particularly Battlefront 2). He enjoys playing with cars, Star Wars action figures, Legos, Brio trains, etc He uses his imagination quite a bit. The cool thing about the Legos is that someone used to have to build things for him, but now, he's learning to build on his own and coming up with some very interesting designs too.
He is very smart and can use a computer better than a few adults I know. One day, he got loose on a Windows XP box and managed to change the user's picture...all without being able to read...
"How can I avoid this problem?"
By deleting explorer.exe svchost.exe and dwm.exe. DUH! If we eliminate the offending processes it will improve performance, right?
Which leads to another thought: how fast would Windows boot if it didn't have to load explorer? Oh wait...
um....I was home schooled. I learned plenty about scientific theory, and I was taught creationism. I learned about it from both angles. I'm currently a junior at the University of Texas at Dallas and doing very well as a CS major. I think I turned out fine. I'm just glad my parents cared enough about me to teach me both sides of the story and let me make up my own mind.
Just because the loudest voice in the crowd don't agree with creationism doesn't mean that everyone in the nation should be excluded from it or that kids shouldn't be allowed to make up their own minds, given all the facts. Isn't that the point anyway? Or, are we all mindless automatons who are simply supposed to regurgitate back to the prof what we're told without thinking about it and forming our own opinions, which (by the way) may not necessarily be exactly what we were told?
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Woudln't that be a "-1, Disgusting"?
He'll be homeschooled starting this fall and so he will definitely learn to read. I was homeschooled K-12 and while there are a few areas where doing everything at home is not the best solution (chem/bio/other science labs & some social activities), I wouldn't trade it for anything.
I'm in college and I have a 5 yr old brother who LOVES HotWheels cars. Not many of my collection survived to go to him (another brother in the middle), but he has dozens of them and plays with them all the time. That doesn't mean that he won't jump at the opportunity to play/watch me play any Star Wars game (particularly Battlefront 2). He enjoys playing with cars, Star Wars action figures, Legos, Brio trains, etc He uses his imagination quite a bit. The cool thing about the Legos is that someone used to have to build things for him, but now, he's learning to build on his own and coming up with some very interesting designs too.
He is very smart and can use a computer better than a few adults I know. One day, he got loose on a Windows XP box and managed to change the user's picture...all without being able to read...
"How can I avoid this problem?" By deleting explorer.exe svchost.exe and dwm.exe. DUH! If we eliminate the offending processes it will improve performance, right?
Which leads to another thought: how fast would Windows boot if it didn't have to load explorer? Oh wait...
Yeah, but can you program a droid to execute order 66? Sure it works with clones, but...
um....I was home schooled. I learned plenty about scientific theory, and I was taught creationism. I learned about it from both angles. I'm currently a junior at the University of Texas at Dallas and doing very well as a CS major. I think I turned out fine. I'm just glad my parents cared enough about me to teach me both sides of the story and let me make up my own mind.
Just because the loudest voice in the crowd don't agree with creationism doesn't mean that everyone in the nation should be excluded from it or that kids shouldn't be allowed to make up their own minds, given all the facts. Isn't that the point anyway? Or, are we all mindless automatons who are simply supposed to regurgitate back to the prof what we're told without thinking about it and forming our own opinions, which (by the way) may not necessarily be exactly what we were told?