PC.com: When your kids know more about your computer than you do |
| Published: April 23, 2008, 5:40 pm |
| Tags: 05 12yrs kid, 13 18yrs teen, 18yrs grownup, admin parent hacks news, learning |
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Before kids, I was a writer of computer books of the how-to variety. How does a relatively non-tech person qualify as technical book author? By sending a proposal for a "teach yourself HTML" book to publishers in 1996, back when Yahoo! was a page full of text links and the Web was still something spiders built in the corners of garages. That bit of lucky timing combined with my love of writing made for a good career for several years. Then my kids came, and all I could write about (once the brain fog cleared a bit) was parenting. There was so much to say, so much to work out, so much to ask. More lucky timing placed the bulk of my parenting writing online, just as blogs were starting to come into the fore. Hence, our lovely Parent Hacks. And now, I've stumbled into yet another alignment-of-the-planets situation. I get to combine by computer how-to experience with my parenting writing in a series of posts for Intel's newly-launched computer help site PC.com. PC.com aims to answer the [ Full article ] |
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