Nashua Meeting

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 04:05:08PM -0500, Marc Nozell wrote:
> > I'll be hopefully going, barring sudden explosive misbehavior of 
> > children, which I don't expect. 
> 
> Sounds like we need GNHLUG babysitting services so more of us can
> regularly show up.  It would definitely help my attendance record!

Possibly... or perhaps we should set up occasional meetings with a more 
kid-friendly environment. Might not work for presentational things, but 
gatherings which are geek and kid friendly have happened a couple times 
recently (one of which was a viewing of all three Lord of the Rings 
meetings).

I wonder what the start of the art is for kids and interaction with 
Linux - either educational or gaming wise. It seems that the oldies and 
goodies - Oregon Trail, things like that - which were the mainstay of my 
childhood, don't have equivilants on any platform that I can find.

I do have a 4 year old who loves to play a stickers game I found on 
LinuxForKids... a site which I've just discovered is now gone.

Has anyone any tips/tricks for how to get kids involved with computers 
at a young age? (Mind you, I'm not meaning the unhealthy addiction that 
I probably have with them at this point, but rather a healthy learning 
tool.) Our 7 year old writes in a LiveJournal that we allow some friends 
to read, which is good for her in a number of ways: improving her 
writing, learning typing, things like that.

-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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