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Rob Keisacker commented on Chris Rumore's blog post 'Safe Geeking'"I don't know if it is different in other areas of the world, but it is amazing how structured children's lives are today. I agree with you Dave with the unstructured time. So many have to be going places and doing things.…"
Dave Hale commented on Chris Rumore's blog post 'Safe Geeking'"I agree with Stephanie. Sometimes, even simple little things will cause sideways glances, like letting your kid climb up the slide, as long as he's not getting in the way of kids wanting to go down. Or how a friend of ours thinks that we are…"
Stephanie Dehennin commented on Chris Rumore's blog post '"Safe GEEKING"'"I feel that no matter what you do as a parent, there will always be people who think and/or say you're doing it wrong. I agree with Rob; you know what your kid can handle and as long as you keep supervising, why not? I let my five year old help…"
Rob Keisacker commented on Chris Rumore's blog post '"Safe GEEKING"'"The key word here is supervision.
No reason to suffocate his curiosity, especially when it comes to things like this. I love the video how he went over and started working. It would be different if he was trying to hammer…"
Chris Rumore posted a blog postSafe Geeking
I was wondering if any of you have ever gotten "flak" for engaging in "dangerous" activities with your Geeklings.I won't allow my son to play w/ the powertools, but will work with him in the workshop with breadboards, wiring, and low power electroncs (batteries).This is him when he was little:…See More
Chris Rumore replied to Stephen Martin's discussion 'Computer classes for kids.'"Don't worry, he'll come up with his own DIFFERENT set of bad habits all by himself! :)
It's good to tweak his code so he is more efficient, avoids sloppy coding or leaving the project space all sloppy, ("Remember…"
Chris Rumore replied to Corrina's discussion 'SF/F that you read growing up'"My favorite Character is Drizzt Do'Urden, (the Dark Elf trilogy and other stories)
As a kid, I enjoyed reading 'older' books - one series I liked was the Rick Brant books - "Rick Brant was a high school boy who lived on an…"
Chris Rumore replied to Stephen Martin's discussion 'Computer classes for kids.'" I second the "Teach him yourself" suggestion. This would be great "bonding time" as well as a great opportunity to teach him to be "cautiously curious". 5 is all about "Good guys and bad…"
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- What are some of your geeky hobbies?
- Retro VR, arcade, and tinkering
Buildin' robots and other small electronic projects
Bit conjurin' (Games + apps)
Mindwalking
Trying to keep the Fiero goin'
- Mac/PC/Linux?
- Mac, PC
- Favorite geeky media (books, music, movies)?
- ForeShadows: Ghosts of Zero , MindWalk, Alien, Giger, Matrix, Star Wars, Pump up the Volume, AugWorld
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Safe Geeking
Posted on June 29, 2012 at 10:00am 4 Comments 1 Favorite
I was wondering if any of you have ever gotten "flak" for engaging in "dangerous" activities with your Geeklings.
I won't allow my son to play w/ the powertools, but will work with him in the workshop with breadboards, wiring, and low power electroncs (batteries).
This is him when he was…
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