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Hej! So my brother wants to buy a Nintendo DS for his 7yo daughter. yepp - 7. Barely able to read. Not a much supported girl anyway. I can't support that. Does a 7yo need such stuff? any suggestions what to give as present for B-day as a "compensation"?
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Both my 7 year old and 4 year old play the DS, have done for a years. The 7 year old got her netbook for her 5th birthday, and she is has no issues with using google, youtube, cbbc website etc. etc. We thought it was time to get her one when she started fighting with the wife over her laptop, and came home from shopping one day with the wife, and headed straight onto the wifes laptop, opened google and searched for Boots, then navigated to the boots.co.uk website. (yes they had been shopping in Boots and it was written on the side of the plastic bag she was carrying). When she first got it, we showed her how to draw in Paint etc. and she would happily doodle away for ages. Also she would sit in wordpad and make up stories etc. That early start has meant she has no issues with technology, and as this is heavily focused at school now, she has no issues in her class, compared to some, have have never been allowed to explore a PC. It is important to ensure that they don't just spend all the time on it though and continue to engage in other activities like art and craft, reading, and currently big into building things in lego. We use MS Live family protection and have never found her looking at inappropriate material yet as it does a good job blocking out dodgy sites. Don't think she is far away from writing her first codeproject article :rolleyes: (probably do a better job than some, and show some of the Q&A participant how to use google!)
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Hej! So my brother wants to buy a Nintendo DS for his 7yo daughter. yepp - 7. Barely able to read. Not a much supported girl anyway. I can't support that. Does a 7yo need such stuff? any suggestions what to give as present for B-day as a "compensation"?
regards Torsten I never finish anyth...
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My daughter has had a Nintendo DS since she was 3 or 4. She couldn't read back then, although now she is 5 she certainly can. There are plenty of games aimed at children that young, they put the words up and read them out, and they are largely education orientated making them solve simple maths or logic puzzles and so on. She has never overly used it, mostly on longer car journeys, but I would say it has helped her in many ways. Although obviously you cannot delegate any parental responsibilities to any electronic contraption.
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Hej! So my brother wants to buy a Nintendo DS for his 7yo daughter. yepp - 7. Barely able to read. Not a much supported girl anyway. I can't support that. Does a 7yo need such stuff? any suggestions what to give as present for B-day as a "compensation"?
regards Torsten I never finish anyth...
TorstenH. wrote:
as a "compensation"
get her a book.
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At least half of the children in my son's school class have one (he's 3). My son doesn't even know what TV looks like...
Seems totally opposite from what I'm teaching my children (3&5yo). I tend to let them know about all. there is a TV and we do watch regularly - but not at their own choice and not at any time. Mostly half an hour in the evening, some children's channel or DVD (if we missed the show). My kids also know that we work on the PC, and they come to me regularly to get some print outs. But I don't let them yet use the computer. That's a parents thing. My kids have a Radio with CD. They like to listen to those children's audio books or some music they're singing along.
regards Torsten I never finish anyth...
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Seems totally opposite from what I'm teaching my children (3&5yo). I tend to let them know about all. there is a TV and we do watch regularly - but not at their own choice and not at any time. Mostly half an hour in the evening, some children's channel or DVD (if we missed the show). My kids also know that we work on the PC, and they come to me regularly to get some print outs. But I don't let them yet use the computer. That's a parents thing. My kids have a Radio with CD. They like to listen to those children's audio books or some music they're singing along.
regards Torsten I never finish anyth...
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TorstenH. wrote:
Does a 7yo need such stuff?
I started to programme at the age of 7/8 courtesey of my beautiful Rubber-Keyed Sinclair Spectrum, initially so I could play games. So yes
TorstenH. wrote:
any suggestions what to give as present for B-day as a "compensation"?
A Sinclair Spectrum?:~ :)
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A Dead ringer for Kate Winslett[^]My first computer was a C64. The step from playing games to programming was much smaller back then though. Don't see a 7 year old hacking a DS and compile her own ROM's. There still are some programming books for kids though, like "C# for sharp kids" maybe he could give her that instead. Imagine the look on her face... :laugh:
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Watching TV before the age of 3 can result in brain damage. Add to this that I don't see when in the day my son would have the time to watch TV, and you understand why he has not yet.
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TorstenH. wrote:
No, I can definitely say they don't lock such stuff.
The child is overloaded with stuff like that. There's nothing she won't get.
I don't know what they are trying to achieve by doing so.If I have read this when I was 6, I would definitely agree with you. :-D My situation's a bit different. I tend to be deaf when I am already playing, so that was probably the reason. :laugh: Seriously, any parent, IMHO, should also control their kids so as not to let them be addicted to it. Anything in excess is harmful.
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naaa, I turn the light on. So the eyes are safe... We watch some because the children know TV is there. I want to teach them to be responsible on things like that. Why doesn't your son have time?
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TorstenH. wrote:
Why doesn't your son have time?
When he wakes up he plays until time for school, then school, then lunch, then he sleeps one hour or two, then he plays outside, then diner, then he plays again outside or in the living room, then bath, then bedtime stories, and the day is gone.
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Hej! So my brother wants to buy a Nintendo DS for his 7yo daughter. yepp - 7. Barely able to read. Not a much supported girl anyway. I can't support that. Does a 7yo need such stuff? any suggestions what to give as present for B-day as a "compensation"?
regards Torsten I never finish anyth...
My kids are eleven (2 boys). They both have a nintendo ds, WII, PS3 and a laptop. We let them use the stuff as they wish. They are however more interested in the outdoors and wood would rather come with me and ride their offroad motorbikes or hunt for crickets, lizards, frogs ( to terrorize their mother with). The only time when they do play games is when it's pouring with rain and we keep them indoors. By all means by her DS, it is however the parents responsibility to ensure that it gets used responsibly. Kids do as their parents do. If the parent is a couch potato that is addicted to gaming, then the child will do the same.
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Hej! So my brother wants to buy a Nintendo DS for his 7yo daughter. yepp - 7. Barely able to read. Not a much supported girl anyway. I can't support that. Does a 7yo need such stuff? any suggestions what to give as present for B-day as a "compensation"?
regards Torsten I never finish anyth...
I started earlier with old nintendo entertainment systems and I'm not referring to a NES... I'm referring to those small gadgets with liquid cristal displays. I called them tiki-tiki (as they made a curious tiki sound each time you pressed a button). And at 9+ I started learning IT related topics. So having a DS must not be a bad thing, but of course it can... it all depends on how it is managed... PS: it is your brother daughter so you have not much to say... (someone had to say it) but of course you have all the right in the world to become worried... Good luck... :rose:
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My first computer was a C64. The step from playing games to programming was much smaller back then though. Don't see a 7 year old hacking a DS and compile her own ROM's. There still are some programming books for kids though, like "C# for sharp kids" maybe he could give her that instead. Imagine the look on her face... :laugh:
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0bx wrote:
Don't see a 7 year old hacking a DS and compile her own ROM's.
Hence my suggestion of a Sinclair Spectrum :)
0bx wrote:
There still are some programming books for kids though, like "C# for sharp kids" maybe he could give her that instead. Imagine the look on her face... :laugh:
There are kids books on more difficult topics[^]! The one in the link was required reading on the 1st year Physics course at Durham University, as it gives you the concepts without the maths in the clearest possible manner, I still have my copy!
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Hej! So my brother wants to buy a Nintendo DS for his 7yo daughter. yepp - 7. Barely able to read. Not a much supported girl anyway. I can't support that. Does a 7yo need such stuff? any suggestions what to give as present for B-day as a "compensation"?
regards Torsten I never finish anyth...
TorstenH. wrote:
So my brother wants to buy a Nintendo DS for his 7yo daughter.
yepp - 7. Barely able to read. Not a much supported girl anyway.
I can't support that. Does a 7yo need such stuff? any suggestions what to give as present for B-day as a "compensation"?Let her go. I reckon my daughter was 7, maybe 8 when she got hers, hasn't hurt.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Hej! So my brother wants to buy a Nintendo DS for his 7yo daughter. yepp - 7. Barely able to read. Not a much supported girl anyway. I can't support that. Does a 7yo need such stuff? any suggestions what to give as present for B-day as a "compensation"?
regards Torsten I never finish anyth...
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Hej! So my brother wants to buy a Nintendo DS for his 7yo daughter. yepp - 7. Barely able to read. Not a much supported girl anyway. I can't support that. Does a 7yo need such stuff? any suggestions what to give as present for B-day as a "compensation"?
regards Torsten I never finish anyth...
TorstenH. wrote:
Barely able to read. Not a much supported girl anyway.
Buy the kid some books (this is not the gift) and read to her (this is the gift).
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Hej! So my brother wants to buy a Nintendo DS for his 7yo daughter. yepp - 7. Barely able to read. Not a much supported girl anyway. I can't support that. Does a 7yo need such stuff? any suggestions what to give as present for B-day as a "compensation"?
regards Torsten I never finish anyth...
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Hej! So my brother wants to buy a Nintendo DS for his 7yo daughter. yepp - 7. Barely able to read. Not a much supported girl anyway. I can't support that. Does a 7yo need such stuff? any suggestions what to give as present for B-day as a "compensation"?
regards Torsten I never finish anyth...
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TorstenH. wrote:
Barely able to read. Not a much supported girl anyway.
Buy the kid some books (this is not the gift) and read to her (this is the gift).
Software Zen:
delete this;Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
Buy the kid some books (this is not the gift) and read to her (this is the gift).
Fuck your nice, I bought some books and told them to fucking learn to read, both go through a ton of books and several years above their age.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
Buy the kid some books (this is not the gift) and read to her (this is the gift).
Fuck your nice, I bought some books and told them to fucking learn to read, both go through a ton of books and several years above their age.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004