That's impressive to be sure, but how many words per minute does he type?
My 12 year old son saw me set up my blog, and the next day when I got home from work, he had installed PHP, mySQL and WordPress on his own hosted site and had his own blog up and running.
Of course he soon lost interest in it and went back to creating tag boards and message boards. I think he did it just to show me up. It took me two days to get it all up on my site (my admin person gave me the wrong userID and password originally).
Final Historian: Yeah I knew I was in trouble when he said, "Unless you'd care to negotiate a settled agreement, counselor?" Before turning back to his Yugi-Oh! cards he mumbled something about habeus corpus. I wasn't sure what he was talking about but I was sufficiently humbled not to press him further on the matter.
Sean: Hey, at least he already gets the value of open source!
My wife and I used to wonder how our son was sneaking out at night and going to strange places. When he was four or five he complained about some "Kafkaesque" situation that had arisen. That needed tracking down, I can tell you...
Turned out to come from "Calvin &Hobbes," of which he was an avid reader.
From what you wrote here, and from what the Queen has written, he is obviously an extremely intelligent young man, a lot smarter than I was at that age. You must be proud to have such a son. And he must be proud to have such a father as you. HAIL TO THE HOUSE OF ESMAY....!!!!
When my brother and I were very little (3 and 5), someone gave my brother a complete volume of the Winnie-the-Pooh stories. It had not occurred to my mother (who's very spacey on all pop culture issues) that those A.A. Milne volumes were for children, with all the polysyllabic language in 'em. She had read them in college, and thought they were "college" books.
So she started reading the Pooh stories aloud to my brother. I was in the room. She assumed I didn't understand them until one day when she saw me in the backyard, attempting to "ride" an oatmeal box as if it were the Hunny Jar Pooh tried to use as a boat when the Hundred Akers Wood flooded.
Kids pick up a lot more than we give 'em credit for.
[Which is not to suggest, Dean, that your sons are not the smartest children the world has ever seen. They are. Mine will be, too, of course. ;) ]
Turned out to come from "Calvin &Hobbes," of which he was an avid reader
If the parents have a good vocabulary the kids will too. Comics are another good influence - I learned a lot from Peanuts, although I pronounced Beethoven beet-oven for a long time.
That's impressive to be sure, but how many words per minute does he type?
My 12 year old son saw me set up my blog, and the next day when I got home from work, he had installed PHP, mySQL and WordPress on his own hosted site and had his own blog up and running.
Of course he soon lost interest in it and went back to creating tag boards and message boards. I think he did it just to show me up. It took me two days to get it all up on my site (my admin person gave me the wrong userID and password originally).
Sean: Hey, at least he already gets the value of open source!
Turned out to come from "Calvin &Hobbes," of which he was an avid reader.
Generation Gap can be a scary thing at times. I doubt there will be any semblance between my world and that of my children's children.
When my brother and I were very little (3 and 5), someone gave my brother a complete volume of the Winnie-the-Pooh stories. It had not occurred to my mother (who's very spacey on all pop culture issues) that those A.A. Milne volumes were for children, with all the polysyllabic language in 'em. She had read them in college, and thought they were "college" books.
So she started reading the Pooh stories aloud to my brother. I was in the room. She assumed I didn't understand them until one day when she saw me in the backyard, attempting to "ride" an oatmeal box as if it were the Hunny Jar Pooh tried to use as a boat when the Hundred Akers Wood flooded.
Kids pick up a lot more than we give 'em credit for.
[Which is not to suggest, Dean, that your sons are not the smartest children the world has ever seen. They are. Mine will be, too, of course. ;) ]
If the parents have a good vocabulary the kids will too. Comics are another good influence - I learned a lot from Peanuts, although I pronounced Beethoven beet-oven for a long time.
I am so proud of him!
...now that was meant to be a real compliment to Jacob.
Dean's World already?
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI