“Given that I have to share my computer with my three children, it's not usually a site that I get to spend that much time on. I'm usually on the Nickelodeon site, coloring with my little five year old or something.” YearsChildrenLittlesThreeGivenFiveShareComputerFive YearsSiteFive Year OldsNickelodeon Author:Todd McFarlane
“Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison.” ChildrenHas BeensAgeBrainFiveSixComputerOur ChildrenComparisonMetalsToys Author:Claude Vorilhon
“I continue to meet people who have had their Web pages hijacked, their browsers corrupted, in some cases, their children exposed to inappropriate material from these dangerous programs hidden in their family computers.” PeopleChildrenCasesDangerousMaterialsComputerPagesProgramExposedInappropriateBrowsersWeb Page Author:Cliff Stearns
“I claim that this bookless library is a dream, a hallucination of on-line addicts; network neophytes, and library-automation insiders...Instead, I suspect computers will deviously chew away at libraries from the inside. They'll eat up book budgets and require librarians that are more comfortable with computers than with children and scholars. Libraries will become adept at supplying the public with fast, low-quality information. The result won't be a library without books--it'll be a library without value.” ChildrenBookDreamValuesLinesResultsQualityInformationComfortableComputerLowsClaimsLibraryBudgetsSuspectsScholarAddictLibrarianHallucinationsInsidersAdeptAutomation Author:Clifford Stoll
“All children need a laptop. Not a computer, but a human laptop. Moms, Dads, Grannies and Grandpas, Aunts, Uncles - someone to hold them, read to them, teach them. Loved ones who will embrace them and pass on the experience, rituals and knowledge of a hundred previous generations. Loved ones who will pass to the next generation their expectations of them, their hopes, and their dreams.” LoveNeedsHumansChildrenDreamNextTeachGenerationsMomDadComputerExpectationsHundredEmbraceRitualLoved OnesUnclesAuntNext GenerationLaptopsGrandpaGrannyPrevious GenerationsMom Dad Author:Colin Powell
“This week Apple stores are holding free computer programming classes for children. Or as that's called in China, a job fair.” ChildrenJobsClassWeekComputerFairsChinaStoresApplesProgrammingComputer Programming Author:Conan O'Brien
“I want to get back to education. When I was in college I paid attention to child psychology portions of our psychology classes. I watch other people work with babies. And I saw the baby as developing like a computer and it intrigued me in my life. I wanted to do that.” PeopleWantChildrenWantedAttentionClassWatchesPsychologySawsCollegeBabyComputerPaidDevelopingGet BackPortionsIntriguedChild Psychology Author:Steve Wozniak
“I was inspired by the Hole in the Wall project, where a computer with an internet connection was put in a Delhi slum. When the slum was revisited after a month, the children of that slum had learned how to use the worldwide web.” ChildrenUseWallMonthsInternetComputerProjectsConnectionsInspiredHolesSlumsDelhiInternet Connection Author:Sugata Mitra
“Sometimes you just have to trust the kids. The first glimpse of Wheelock Family Theatre's Shrek is a surprise. Instead of the round, green, smoothly computer-animated ogre of the movie, this Shrek is tall and hairy, with a lumpy green headpiece and mossy dreads. But as played by Christopher Chew in Wheelock's “Shrek the Musical,” this ogre was a hit with the children. they laughed and cheered and clapped in all the right places.” FirstsChildrenSometimesKidsComputerGreenSurpriseRoundsMusicalTheatreTallLaughedDreadGlimpseRight PlaceAnimated Author:Joel Brown
“Like most people, I gave little thought during my life to the scourge of child pornography. But, I now know we are fighting a losing battle. The predators are sophisticated in the use of computers and talented in the manipulation of children.” PeopleKnowsChildrenLittlesUseFightingBattleComputerLosingManipulationSophisticatedPornographyPredatorScourge Author:Kurt Eichenwald
“Today's children are living a childhood of firsts. They are the first daycare generation; the first truly multicultural generation; the first generation to grow up in the electronic bubble, the environment defined by computers and new forms of television; the first post-sexual revolution generation; the first generation for which nature is more abstraction than reality; the first generation to grow up in new kinds of dispersed, deconcentrated cities, not quite urban, rural, or suburban.” FirstsKindChildrenRealityTodayFormGrowsChangeCitiesGrowing UpEnvironmentGenerationsChildhoodTelevisionRevolutionComputerDefinedPostsBubblesUrbanAbstractionMulticulturalSexual RevolutionDaycare Book:Childhood's Future Source: Childhood's Future
“Children are not being assaulted by images that appear on a computer screen. Any Internet user knows it is quite difficult to stumble across pornography.” KnowsChildrenDifficultInternetComputerScreensUsersFree SpeechPornographyComputer ScreenInternet Users Author:Russ Feingold
“If you start thinking about the kids being born now, for them the computer is ancient history. So one imagines that when children think of it as the only place to be, because there isn't anywhere else, then the geniuses of those generations will find their way into doing something that is impressive and as good as a Shakespeare or a Cervantes. But nowadays, we can't see that. We're not close enough to it yet.” IfsThinkingWayChildrenEnoughKidsBornImagineGenerationsGeniusComputerAncientImagine ThatImpressiveAncient History Author:Robert Coover
“We are never without our technology. It surrounds us. It permeates our lives. We have powerful computers in our pockets, and we have been - you know, we are training our children from the youngest age to use social media, so it's something that comes very naturally to us.” KnowsChildrenHas BeensUseAgeSocialPowerfulTechnologyOur LivesMediaComputerTrainingOur ChildrenSocial MediaPocketsSurround Author:Lance Ulanoff
“I'm very interested in the way the Internet has changed teenage life. Obviously it's very different from when I grew up, when there weren't even answering machines, much less computers. I was telling my children this the other day, and the little one said, "Did you have electricity, Mom?" and I was like okay, enough, kid.” WayChildrenLittlesSaidDifferentEnoughKidsChangedGrewMomInternetComputerGrew UpOkayMachinesMy ChildrenElectricityTeenageAnswering MachinesTeenage Life Author:Jennifer Egan
“The paradox is that, by children taking shortcuts through computer games, through fantasies, through movies that load on all the emotional stimulation of encountering life in a stylized way - all of this is the equivalent of mainlining of paleolithic emotions, emotions about combat, about personal success, about overcoming monsters, about making powerful friendships, about winning wars and entering new territory.” WayChildrenWarGamesWinningPowerfulEmotionFantasyEmotionalComputerOvercomingMonstersParadoxTerritoryCombatLoadEnteringShortcutsStimulationPersonal SuccessNew TerritoryComputer Games Author:E. O. Wilson
“My whole life has been instinctual for me. I wouldn't do well in the computer world. My children look at me for a question and then they quickly look away because they know that I'm not going to know how to make Super Mario or do anything.” KnowsWorldWellsLooksChildrenHas BeensWholeKnow HowComputerWhole LifeMy ChildrenLook At MeMarioSuper Mario Author:Kevin Costner
“Chess is, in essence, a game for children. Computers have exacerbated the trends towards youth because they now have an immensely powerful tool at their disposal and can absorb vast amounts of information extremely quickly.” ChildrenGamesPowerfulInformationYouthAmountComputerToolsEssenceChessTrends Author:Nigel Short
“We have an epidemic of sexual predators following our children, whether it be on the computers, whether it be in our public parks, whether it be in the workplace, or even our schools.” ChildrenSchoolComputerOur ChildrenSafetyFollowingParksWorkplaceEpidemicsPredatorWorkplace Safety Author:Jon Porter
“This new England we have invented for ourselves is not interested at all in education. It is only interested in training, both material and spiritual. Education means freedom, it means ideas, it means truth. Training is what you do to a pear tree when you pleach it and prune it to grow against a wall. Training is what you give an airline pilot or a computer operator or a barrister or a radio producer. Education is what you give children to enable them to be free from the prejudices and moral bankruptcies of their elders.” GivingMeanChildrenIdeasSpiritualGrowsMoralTreeMaterialsWallComputerTrainingPrejudiceEnglandRadioProducersPilotsNot InterestedEldersAirlineBankruptcyNew EnglandOperatorsPearsPrunesBarristersAirline PilotsSpiritual Education Author:Stephen Fry
“Although I played a lot of computer games in my 20s, now I have children of my own I hate them with a passion.” ChildrenHatePassionGamesMy OwnComputerI HateComputer Games Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“We need to make sure that every child in America goes to a school every day that is safe, will teach them how to read and write, do arithmetic and gain the computer skills necessary to allow them to compete in the global marketplace. If we can get that through the public schools, fine. If we can't, I'm all for parental choice in education to allow that parent to take his/her/their child to a school that is safe and teaches them, even if it is a faith-based school!” IfsNeedsWritingChildrenSchoolAmericaChoicesParentTeachFineSkillsSafeComputerGainsPublic SchoolMarketplaceParentalArithmeticFaith Based Author:J. C. Watts
“Fertility is hereditary. If your parents didn't have any children, neither will you. I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.” IfsChildrenParentComputerFertilityDo Not FearHereditary Author:Isaac Asimov
“Children long to know that they are lovable. And there are ways that technology can help with that. But ultimately it's their relationships with their parents, their grandparents, their peers, and their teachers that help them to know that for sure. A child can learn the word "hug" and the letters h-u-g through a computer, but a computer can never give the child a hug.” KnowsWayGivingChildrenLongHelpingParentTechnologyTeacherComputerLettersHugPeersGrandparentLovable Author:Fred Rogers
“Writing a computer virus program is child's play. Any fool can do it, which is why the silly little twerps who do have nothing to be proud of.” WritingChildrenLittlesPlayCan DoFoolProudComputerProgramSillyBe ProudVirusesSilly LittleComputer Viruses Author:Richard Dawkins
“Kids store 10.000 songs on the home computer, after having pricked them on the Net. The company, of the deputies, the senators find that virtuous! However, it is a moral problem: you will not fly, learns one with our children. Moreover, these plunders via the Net are carried out in the anonymat.” ChildrenProblemHomeKidsSongCompanyMoralComputerOur ChildrenStoresVirtuousSenatorsPlunderDeputies Author:Jean-Louis Murat
“We often treat children as if they're not very competent to do anything on their own. So we make them stop learning in a natural way - by exploring. Logo [the computer programming language ] allows them to find their way around the computer, as they would find their way around the house, uncontaminated by the bureaucracies of schools.” IfsWayChildrenSchoolHouseLanguageNaturalComputerTreatsProgrammingExploringBureaucracyCompetentComputer ProgrammingProgramming LanguagesLogos Author:Seymour Papert
“You can sit down with your child and prompt him to show you something - perhaps how to play a game [on the computer]. By learning a game, you're getting close to the kid and gaining insight into ways of learning. The kid can see this happening and feels respected, so it fosters the relationship between you and the kid.” WayFeelsChildrenPlayShowsKidsGamesComputerHappeningsOur ChildrenInsightYour ChildrenPrompts Author:Seymour Papert
“I tell adults about the experiences of more than a hundred teachers I've interviewed. They tell me that allowing the child to help them learn helped them become better teachers. That's because they no longer had to pretend they were the experts - not only about computers but about other things.” ChildrenHelpingTeacherComputerHundredAdultsExpertsAllowing Author:Seymour Papert
“My ex-student, Idit Harel, who wrote a book, "Children Designs," has a documented story of a kid who was very shy, isolated and didn't talk much to other kids. She was a little overweight, and the other kids looked down on her for that reason.But then she made a discovery about how to do something on the computer. The discovery was picked up by other kids, and within a few weeks there was a total transformation. This kid was now in demand. And that changed her feeling about herself.” ChildrenLittlesMadeBookReasonStoriesFeelingsKidsWeekDesignChangedStudentsDemandComputerDiscoveryTransformationShyIsolatedExesOverweight Author:Seymour Papert
“The first thing to note is that pornography and many abductions occur apart from the use of computers, and that most child abuse happens within the family. So I think the extra degree of danger that computers pose doesn't justify the frenzy.” ThinkingFirstsChildrenUseHappensDangerDegreesComputerAbuseNotesExtrasJustifyChild AbusePornographyFrenzyAbduction Author:Seymour Papert
“What distinguishes a human being from a computer? The ability to add up numbers? The ability to understand language? The ability to be logical? It is, of course, none of the above. It is the ability to play. Computers cannot have fun. They cannot fantasize. They cannot dream, they cannot experience emotion or summon intuition. These rare, precious qualities come naturally to every child on this earth yet they tend to be seen, by well meaning adults, as faults, foibles and failings. In pushing tiny toddlers to 'perform', we rob them of the ability to imagine.” HumansWellsChildrenPlayDreamEarthCoursesLanguageFunHuman BeingsAbilityNumbersEmotionQualityImagineFailingComputerAdultsAddFaultsIntuitionTinyHaving FunPushingLogicalToddlerFoibles Author:Jonathan Cainer
“My children threw me a life line: "Return to your roots - food - and rewrite your first book, Diet for a Small Planet." I learned that if I could just show up, in this case, if I could just get myself out of bed, get to the computer in my tiny office at MIT, and start writing, help would start arriving.” IfsWritingFirstsChildrenBookHelpingShowsLinesCasesPlanetsReturnBedOfficeComputerRootsTinyMy ChildrenDietsIf I CouldArrivingMitLife Line Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“I first learnt to program a computer when I was nine, when my dad got a ZX80, but I think I would have had to be a particularly perspicacious child to have foreseen the iPad or Twitter!” ThinkingFirstsChildrenDadComputerProgramMy DadNineIpadsForeseen Author:Suw Charman-Anderson
“I had the opportunity, as a child, to grow up in a community center where I was exposed to theater, music, art, and computer science; things that I would have never had the opportunity to even meet had it not been for those people taking time out of their schedules, helping us as children to travel all over the world while sitting in a gymnasium. That's what I did before I was a musician, before I was a recording artist, I was a teacher and a community leader.” PeopleWorldChildrenArtHelpingArtistOpportunityGrowsCommunityLeaderGrowing UpTeacherComputerMusicianSittingTheaterExposedTake TimeSchedulesComputer ScienceGymnasiumsCommunity Centers Author:Erykah Badu
“It's pretty much how we get anything added to the curriculum. When parents said children needed to be computer literate, the schools started responding. The same thing is true of basic financial literacy.” ChildrenSaidSchoolParentNeededComputerFinancialLiteracyRespondingCurriculumFinancial Literacy Author:Elizabeth Warren
“If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.” IfsChildrenStoriesFilmAmountComputerSittingImportanceStorytellingYour ChildrenSeatsEntertainingAnimationAnimatedAnimated FilmsMinivansComputer Animation Author:John Lasseter
“Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't rightly see how somebody who claims to have had -What'd you say? One partner?-can be welled trained." He had a point. Her brain clicked away. "I was referring to the instructional videotapes my agency has all its new employees watch." "They train you by watching videos?" His eyes narrowed reminding her of a hunter looking down a gun sight,"Now, ain't that interesting." She felt a little surge of pleasure as her child lost another few points on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills. Even a computer couldn't have picked a more perfect match.” ChildrenLittlesEyeLostFeltPerfectPleasureInterestingBrainWatchesMissingSkillsComputerGunTestsSightClaimsTrainPartnersVideoAgencyHis EyesEmployeeHuntersRemindingReferringIowaLooking DownMissing SomethingPerfect MatchNew Employees Author:Susan Elizabeth Phillips
“A terrorist doesn't let strangers into her flat because they might be undercover police or intelligence agents, but her children bring their mates home and they run all over the place The terrorist doesn't know that one of these kids has bugged every room in her house, made copies of all her computer files and stolen her address book. The kid works for CHERUB CHERUB agents are aged between 10 and 17. They live in the real world, slipping under adult radar and getting information that sends criminals and terrorists to jail.” KnowsWorldChildrenMadeBookRealHomeMightRunningKidsHouseRoomsInformationComputerAdultsPoliceStrangerCriminalsTerroristAgentsAddressesFlatsCopiesJailReal WorldMatesStolenFilesRadarSlippingUndercoverCherubsAddress Books Author:Robert Muchamore
“Read to your children Twenty minutes a day; You have the time, And so do they. Read while the laundry is in the machine; Read while the dinner cooks; Tuck a child in the crook of your arm And reach for the library books. Hide the remote, Let the computer games cool, For one day your children will be off to school; Remedial? Gifted? You have the choice; Let them hear their first tales In the sound of your voice. Read in the morning; Read over noon; Read by the light of Goodnight Moon. Turn the pages together, Sitting close as you'll fit, Till a small voice beside you says, "Hey, don't quit.” FirstsChildrenBookLightSchoolTogetherTurnsChoicesGamesSoundVoiceMorningMinutesArmsFitOne DayMoonComputerPagesSittingMachinesTwentiesLibraryDinnerQuittingTalesHeyCooksYour ChildrenGiftedNoonLaundryCrooksLibrary BooksBeside YouSmall VoiceComputer Games Author:Richard Peck