How much do your Kids/grandkids know about computers?
By marge58
@marge58 (31)
United States
April 25, 2009 9:30am CST
I just caught my 4yr old grandson changing out the hard drive on his computer! Wow, he did it correctly & fast! He also knows that he is using a "Dial-up" service but needs "DSL"...when I asked him where he learned how to change a hard drive I got the usual answer "Uh, I don't know" "It just didn't boot up anymore", I thought he was just playing those silly games & having fun. Where do kids learn this stuff from? Are they learning this in Day Care? How much did your kids know about computers at 4ys old? Do I have a future Bill Gates?
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12 responses
@dianmelydia (2269)
• Indonesia
25 Apr 09
Amazing kid! It's great. Well, so far my 4 year old nephew uses the computer only for playing games and sometimes watching the DVD movie on the computer. He is quite a fast learner as i only did help him to open the DVD movie for once and since that time he could do it herself. He knows how to set to full screen, pause, play, and stop. Well, i think your grandson is much smarter. You should teach him carefully from now on. He could be the next Bill Gates :) Good luck. Have a nice weekend.
@kellys3ps (3723)
• United States
25 Apr 09
My kids know a lot about computers. The love making movies and adding special effects with the computer.
@marge58 (31)
• United States
26 Apr 09
Fantastic! that is something I have not thought of doing with the kids...they would love making movies. Mabey if I had access to a computer in my childhood it wouldn't have taken a decade for me to learn how to use this one...lol..thanks for responding.
@jayrene (2708)
• Philippines
26 Apr 09
yeah... kids are now have know hows in computers. i have 3 ages 12, 7, 1 (almost 2), and they all use computers. my eldest started using computer when she was 2 years old.
my youngest (1 year old) plays reader rabbit, and really he knows how to use mouse... i was like huh!?, it was my husband who had let him play with the computer. he even knows how to turn on the computer, avr first, then cpu, then monitor...
kids these days... you just never know what they will learn next
@kassdaw (591)
• United States
25 Apr 09
My youngest son is 2 and a half and he can find the HIS movie file on my computer. So may say that it isn't too impressive but it isn't on my desktop. In fact, it is on a third harddrive in a file named "movies" and then once in that there is one that says "memphis." He can also pick the right movie if he is looking for something specific.
@pratiksanghvi (1278)
• India
25 Apr 09
wow thats just amazing.todays kids are just very sharp and intelligent.yes i have noticed many kids doing like that from their small age todays kids have been adapted to so many modern factors that they become more sharp than their normal speed we must still not know how to change the hard disk or various stuff but they are just sharp and much better thats todays youth.
@Mikaela_taz25 (1842)
• Philippines
25 Apr 09
It's not just that. This Generation had been exposed to Technology that so far took me almost a decade to get to know some techno stuff. with all the information from magazines to internet. you can fix any technology in no time. but for that kid, 
i think he might have been a real intelligent person. not that am saying that he's a geek but like it's this generation expose to so many gadgets and stuff. something that am not able to do with my computer
@jeyviolin (69)
• United States
25 Apr 09
Yeah I have a 2 year old nephew who can play games on the computer like monoploy and stuff lol. I help of course but he knows how to use it. He is so fasinated with it.
@LaSenyoraSilis (313)
• United States
26 Apr 09
I am not a parent, but I can say for sure that children know sooo much about computers and technology. :-) The thing about modern day technology is that it is constantly changing. Even now as we speak it is changing. :-) I was very fortunate to be raised in a generation that knows a lot about the changing trends of technology. :-) For many of those born before me, it is quite difficult for them to "catch on". :-)... Children learn a lot about computers from their environment: school, friends, visiting an electronics store. :-)
@nirajattal (8)
• India
26 Apr 09
ya my kids know about computers at the age of 4years...small children are very genious and they learn everything in there mother stomach...when they come out they become genious.they will know very single thing which takes a person more than 1 month or even a year...my kid also did all repairings in my computer when my computer struck..ya surely i expect other future bill gates in future........
i am eagerly waiting for that
