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A lesson on the importance of encouraging your children with their projects

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Re: A lesson on the importance of encouraging your children with their projects

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Post by ars »

blots wrote: post #10

My university blocks your site: Based on your corporate access policies, this web site ( http://gamesbyemail.com/WoodTape/Default.htm ) has been blocked because it has been determined by Web Reputation Filters to be a security threat to your computer or the corporate network. This web site has been associated with malware/spyware. Threat Type: Othermalware Threat Reason: IP address is either verified as a bot or has…

It happened to me too. Try http://gamesbyemail.com.nyud.net:8090/WoodTape/Default.htm or http://gamesbyemail.com.nyud.net/WoodTape/Default.htm

Re: A lesson on the importance of encouraging your children with their projects

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Post by Eliezer »

dasil003 wrote: post #6
tb wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love the small print at the bottom: Text copyright (c) 2004 Scott Nesin. Drawings copyright (c) 2004 Guy Nesin, used with permission. You just know he did actually ask his 4-year-old son for permission to use his drawings on the web.

What's this kid building @ 11? That's what I wanna know.

He just got his Hogwarts letter.

Re: A lesson on the importance of encouraging your children with their projects

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Post by noonespecial »

Joakal wrote: post #3

Reminds me about this dedicated builder: http://jamius.com/ He builds pretty amazing stuff like indoor trampoline [0] and a robotic spider [1]. Due to his increasing popularity and requests to learn from him, he created the adventure builders club: http://jamius.com/abc/abc.html Some more about him in this thread that propelled him to fame on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/e5qgr/so_this_guy_li... [0]…

I'm pretty sure this guy will be able to single handedly rebuild human civilization after the apocalypse(1).

I love his current quest for a 3d printer that's open source and can run on his solar panels.

(1)With his kid strapped to him, wisecracking the whole time.

Re: A lesson on the importance of encouraging your children with their projects

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Post by cesarsalazar12 »

Really inspiring.

I don't have kids yet but when I think about parenting, this is what I always dream of. However, when I tell my "non-hacker" friends, they don't seem to get excited about it. I don't know why. For me, parenting is all about playing a supporting role in the kids journey to understand the world and learn to hack it for the better.

Re: A lesson on the importance of encouraging your children with their projects

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Post by Joakal »

noonespecial wrote: post #13
Joakal wrote: post #3

Reminds me about this dedicated builder: http://jamius.com/ He builds pretty amazing stuff like indoor trampoline [0] and a robotic spider [1]. Due to his increasing popularity and requests to learn from him, he created the adventure builders club: http://jamius.com/abc/abc.html Some more about him in this thread that propelled him to fame on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/e5qgr/so_this_guy_li... [0]…

I'm pretty sure this guy will be able to single handedly rebuild human civilization after the apocalypse (1) . I love his current quest for a 3d printer that's open source and can run on his solar panels. (1)With his kid strapped to him, wisecracking the whole time.

If you're interested in open source 3D printers, then you'll like these:

http://www.reddit.com/r/reprap

http://reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://openfarmtech.org/wiki/Main_Page (Not quite 3D printer, but on the 'rebuild human cilization' level)

Re: A lesson on the importance of encouraging your children with their projects

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Post by ThomPete »

I have a son who is turning two.

Our local supermarket is a great primarily organic shop. They have carts made for the little ones and we normally use that to do all our shopping.

I usually let him pick things down from the shelves or give him things from them to put into his cart. Sometimes his picks are random but mostly he fetches three things that I normally get.

1. Milk 2. Pasta 3. Swarts Broot

After that we go to the counter and he fetches the things for me to put up on the desk. He now even packs it.

I have found that involving him like this makes it much easier to set boundaries because he can relate to them.

It's quite different to be told to put only some of the things back rather than everything.

It's quite amazing to experience the emergence of consciousness.

Re: A lesson on the importance of encouraging your children with their projects

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Post by maeon3 »

Parents who give their kids a regular diet of "High Praise", "Agreeableness", "Supportiveness" and "Positive Interaction", but don't send them to college create children who have higher socioeconomic statuses than children of disconnected parents who send theirs to college. Multiple studies done confirm this.

http://books.google.com/books?id=XDq9Xf_NbrMC&lpg=PT28&#...

Adam Savage from Mythbusters claimed his love of building came from his parents encouraging him to make all sorts of crazy inventions. Moral of the story, encourage the children to build stuff, keep them on track but don't do it for them.

Re: A lesson on the importance of encouraging your children with their projects

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Post by wlievens »

blots wrote: post #10

My university blocks your site: Based on your corporate access policies, this web site ( http://gamesbyemail.com/WoodTape/Default.htm ) has been blocked because it has been determined by Web Reputation Filters to be a security threat to your computer or the corporate network. This web site has been associated with malware/spyware. Threat Type: Othermalware Threat Reason: IP address is either verified as a bot or has…

Odds are it's because of the word 'game' in the domain.
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