If this is where you find yourself, then help is on the way.

The computer is just a tool and getting it to do stuff for you depends on the choices you make about what you buy, how you use it, who your kids are and why you are doing this in the first place. The fine print doesn't say anything about magic. With a light heart they plunk down $89 for the big box that has one diskette in it and go home. Their eyes glazed over as the sales person speaks computer jargon ('MS-DOS, 386, 2 Meg RAM, VGA. In a matter of weeks what was an insurmountable obstacle and source of despair becomes a challenge, a game.īut beware! Many a parent has been lured by shiny packages and glossy magazine articles into the computer store.

There is nothing quite like the magic of seeing a child struggling with spelling or math all of a sudden playing with words and numbers. There is lots of software, how do you chose the best? Although the problem can be frustrating at times, it is well worth the effort. Years ago finding high quality educational software was difficult. Rarely is education the primary reason for buying a home computer, but once it is in the house, almost inevitably, parents look at the screen sitting on the desk and decide that they will use it to help their children get ahead in school. They are there for many reasons, most usually to bring home work from the office. In a class of 26, there were 23 that had a computer, in some cases more than one. Recently, a teacher asked a grade five class how many of them had computers at home. Computers are showing up everywhere and the home is no exception.

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