Millie Rosa

Hi. I am Millie from near Mobile, AL and have been lurking for a little while. My son is not yet school age but I think we are already unschooling. I read a good bit of John Holt's work and agreed with everything I read...tho I must admit that a lot of what I have seen posted on unschooling lists (not necessarily this one) have turned me off slightly. I do still think we will unschool. Anyway, my baby is only 2 but can read and is becoming a computer whiz as well. He wants to play on the computer all day and I am allowing this, although my husband is terrified that he will delete something important. And this is a real risk! He's a quick clicker and when I leave the room for half a minute to pee or something, I come back and he has 25 windows up, has connected to the internet, etc. He did manage to open one of my word documents and "type letters" in front of it...tho there was no harm done. DH and I know very little about computers, so I was hoping one of you might could
tell me how we can lock him out of our files. I have been trying to teach him to only play his own games or notepad or paint, but you know he wants to click on everything to "see what dis do." I found some freeware programs that seemed to me to just lock the whole computer and make the keyboard make funny sounds when they bang on it...I don't want that...Will would be taking the computer apart "tryin to fix it," and I don't want to lock him out of the computer (tho dh does)! Please excuse my ignorance and thanks for any suggestions.
Millie
gently raising strong Will


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Valerie

--- In [email protected], Millie Rosa
<willsmamamillie@y...> wrote:
> Hi. I am Millie from near Mobile, AL and have been lurking for a
little while. My son is not yet school age but I think we are
already unschooling. I read a good bit of John Holt's work and
agreed with everything I read...tho I must admit that a lot of what
I have seen posted on unschooling lists (not necessarily this one)
have turned me off slightly.

*****Welcome Millie. Would you mind saying what turned you off?
Maybe some of us can shed light on it (or also be turned off) :-)

love, Valerie

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In a message dated 6/9/2004 8:01:51 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
willsmamamillie@... writes:

My son is not yet school age but I think we are already unschooling. I read
a good bit of John Holt's work and agreed with everything I read...tho I
must admit that a lot of what I have seen posted on unschooling lists (not
necessarily this one) have turned me off slightly. I do still think we will
unschool. <<<<<<<



Hi, Millie. What's turned you off?



>>>>>> Anyway, my baby is only 2 but can read and is becoming a computer
whiz as well. He wants to play on the computer all day and I am allowing this,
although my husband is terrified that he will delete something important.
<<<<<<<<<<




I'd seriously consider getting him his own computer. A used one? You don't
have to hook it up to the 'net---just download his games----with none of your
stuff on it.


I'm sure you could get one for next to nothing----just for games!


~Kelly


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WOW! Will is a real go getter isn't he!
If you check under the help files listed anywhere on your pc (not sure what
you are running, like Win 98,2000, xp?) you will find info on how to
password proctect files. BUT, that strong little Will is learning about computers the
way I did, by just doing it! This may not be feasible, but could you find a
used pc somewhere (and I did hear in some states they loan out PC's to hs'ers)
for his use only?
The 1st time I crashed my PC I was closing out some files and, bam, closed
the wrong thing, and it was gone. So my next lesson was how to reformat and put
it all back on the computer again.
Will and would get along so well.....<g> !!!
If you haven't come up with a solution yet, let me know what you are running
and i'll check into what or if you can do anything, before he has to take it
apart and see the insides! (which by the way was really fun for me to do!)
em me personally
syndi


We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he
is someone today.
Stacia Tauscher


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