Do You Ever Feel Intimidated And Just Plain Dumb When...

If you want to know something about a computer... ask a kid... I agree with you! Kids these days they're really smart! Well, it doesn't tick me off, though, it just always amazes me all the time. I am always amazed everytime I realize that my kids know much much more than I do in computers, considering the fact that I've used computers much longer than they have! We just have to accept the fact that we all grow old. There will always be continuous improvement in technology, and children are young, they learn much faster and become much more adept at computers than we are as we grow old.

I dont really go to any of those sites but my nephews can definitely do games and especially video games better and faster than I can. It is amazing how good they are doing with those things. i dont have the eye hand coordination to do those things. I think this is the only way you can do really well with these things. It takes practice.

Yeah and those kids finishing a puzzle in 6 seconds are probably using a cheat program. I've never been able to do one in under 20 seconds no matter how simple it could be. Games are just that to me..games. I never get upset if I lose or get excited if I win. I just wanna enjoy playing them is all.

Pye it just means your getting old like the rest of us. LOL I have problems reading and comprehending what I read now a days. I have problems reading subtitles on foreign movies because I do not read fast enough. I think it would be 1 to 2 minutes for me to get them done.

Hi Pye..I definititly agree with you on that! A child nowadays knows about computers more than what I do...its a pain but at least you can ask them for some help with yours . My grandson is 4 just started school and even there they have laptops for the children to use and learn on..I couldn't believe it when I went with my daughter to listen about the school etc..it amazed me and I was a bit gob smacked when the teacher said 'oh yes its the normal thing for primary children to have in class now'. My thoughts were 'what happened to the use of their brains especially when it comes to maths?'...its bad no wonder children are better with technology than we are...bb littleowl

i know what you mean. i belong to pogo games, in fact the club. it sometimes bugs me that the kids can do challenges that i cant even figure out how to play the game.

Sometimes, to actually get certain tasks done, you need to THINK like a kid. This is a relatively old story I heard. "Relatively old" in that it was something I heard back some time in the mid-1980's. I'm not even sure if it's true or not. Someone set up a graduated cylinder, long, skinny container - more like a very, very narrow cup or pitcher, except it is a complete cylinder in that it's more like a pipe-shape. They then dropped a ping pong ball into it. This was done to see what a bunch of "intellects" - college professors, researchers & developers, scientists ... would do. Knowing that this would take a while, they also left some regular drinking cups & a pitcher of ice water out for these people. They were not allowed to pick up or move the graduated cyliner, but the object was to figure out how to remove the ping pong ball from the bottom of it. believe it or not, hours later, they accomplished nothing. Along comes a kid who asked what was going on. One of the people in the room explained what was going on to the kid. So the kid picked up the pitcher, & poured it into the graduated cyliner, filling it to the brim, & making the ping pong ball bounce onto the table. He succeeded in removing the ping pong ball from the graduated cylinder without moving it or touching it.

I dont go there lol. ANd watch Do you know more than a 5th grader!. I have lost on some of those

I hang out at the Webkinz site. I love some of the games. Some of them are just to much for my ancient brain to handle though. I like Get Eleven Solitaire and Smoothie Maker. I am also pretty good at the Tower Tiles and the Word game, I can't really remember the right name for it. My nieces are much better at most of the games than I am.

yeah pw, my son plays online games like wow & ff & I just can't even get into them it's too much walking lol but the real pisser was this little kiddie game park the car I had a heck of a time w/ that one +'s |:)

Haha. I bet we have all at some point been in a similar situation, pyewacket. As a former teacher of 4th graders, I can attest to the truth in that statement 'if you want to know something about a computer...ask a kid'. It is truly amazing. My 4 year old already scares me sometimes about the things he is able to pick up on about the computer.

oh arent those little kids just such show off's.... SIX seconds My daughter just loves Beanie Kids but I'm can't remember if we register her up to the beanie site or not will have to ask her and I am not a person who plays games online that much because I am like you and I bet that I would never get it out ... hahahaha Just asked her and she said no that we havent so that would be why I cant remember but she said that she wants to join it hehehe

I have played games on some kiddie sites like Marapets and Neopets. The kids can zip right through most of those games while I, thinking I am doing good, find out that I am not that sharp at them But, I know that my revenge is that I am good at Life, while these kids are only good at games

no..i'm the best..i got no worries..

Well, back when they had the Commodore Vic 20 way back, my brother who is now in his late 30s used to be Excellent at games like Ms Pac Man, etc. and no one could beat him. I have no idea if he is still good at Computer games, or what type he would play, but I think the reason kids are better than us adults on a lot of the games, etc. is because they have more time to be in there. They do not have the pressures of life like us adults do as well.

I have felt that way quite a few times. I am not a dumb person though. Alot of things do not come natural to me sometimes though. It makes me feel dumb when it happens, but I know better. I think it is just a brain fart at the time LOL.

Kids have more energy, As a person ages their motor skills slows down ( at least that's what I was told..lol)Don't feel so hard on yourself about playing these games, I just think you'll get faster with these games once you get more familiar with them and it will become more automatic once you get use to playing them. Besides isn't this a way for you to unwind after a busy day? Just enjoy playing.I like to play old school games like the arcade games from the 80's and sometimes I will surf game sites to see if I can find anything my son would like to play. I also like to play Bejeweled when I have a chance. My little boy love's to play games online also and I made him a private game webpage and put all of his favorite games on it and I made it his home page on his computer, he love's it.. I'm going to have to show him ty.com. Thanks for mentioning it:)

No it doesnt bother me and it shouldnt bother you either. Why? Children these days have grown up with computers in their cribs. WHen we were younger they didnt have all this technology. What they did have wasnt available to the public. YOu have to look at it like this: You learned an entirely different way of rationalizing and viewing problems. The children today are well versed in computer technology of any kind. From Video games to ipods. When I was young we had atari. THats about as computer wise as I was. Dont knock yourself. Kids these days know where to look, which sites to use. I bet if it came down to working things out on paper things would be very different. You really cant compare your intelligence to theirs. Its apples and oranges. We came from a different time. dl

Playing video games is something that most of the kids can do with ease these days. All they need is an early exposure to a computer system. There's nothing wrong in losing to a kid because they usually have faster reaction rate. I play this game where there are some kids who are better than me. But hey, we play games to have fun not to worry about the low scores and all. So I just do not feel anything when something like this happens. as they say, 'It's all in the Game' bourne

Hi pye, I think these days kid are born computer minded somehow, my friends 4 years old granddaughter has her own computer and befor I learned how to use mine. My friend don't know how to use the computer at all and she is 53, and I only learned how to use mine just over 4 months, so what can you say? kids are clever when its comes to computers, but we can't beat ourselves up as we oldies are doning very we considering we have to learn all the computer jargons. Bright Blessings. Tamara