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Posted by SJ_SwanJun on 12-10-2009 at 00:49:
Outsmarted by a Four Year Old
I swear my child is the Condor ... No ... more like a Swallow... With me, the Swan, his target.
He's into practical jokes. He knows he is smarter than his mother ... and actually got my Eagle beat.
His latest (and bear in mind, this kid is only four) ... He snuck onto my laptop and rotated the display so that everything was ... and operated ... upsidedown.
He was chuckling and guffawing about it... So when I go to play on the poota ... GAH! What the hell???
He's snickering into his little hand and won't tell me how to fix it. I would have known how to fix it -- had I NOT BEEN A VISTA USER!
My Eagle -- aka Flash -- and I ended up doing a damn Google search with the laptop held upsidedown to try and work it out.
Ten minutes later we got it figured out...
Joshie was chuckling throughout and congratulating himself on a joke well played.
I can't believe we both got outsmarted by a four year old...
SJ
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Posted by amethyst on 12-10-2009 at 02:50:
One word: Password! 
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Posted by Springie on 12-10-2009 at 08:47:
Oh, too funny! He does sound like a Jinpei!! 
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Posted by lborgia88 on 12-10-2009 at 17:43:
Oh dear, SJ -this is probably just the beginning...
Posted by clouddancer on 12-10-2009 at 17:45:
LOL SJ sounds like he knows how to pull your "tail".
And now you know why in our school board we have installed a program called "Deep Freeze" This prevents anything the children download or do to the computer to be returned to "normal" when the computer has be shutdown and then the power turned on again.
Of course we probably have some bright kids who will figure out how to get around this as well, but until then we are safe.
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Posted by gatchamarie on 12-10-2009 at 18:37:
There's a Jinpei for sure!
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Posted by UnpublishedWriter on 12-10-2009 at 19:36:
My cat did that to my old laptop when she walked across the keyboard. I had to call my brother for tech support.
Four-year-olds are smarter than we suspect.
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Posted by SJ_SwanJun on 12-10-2009 at 20:19:
He's a smart one, I'll give him that ... he's also a devil, sneaky, bullheaded.
They won't let him play with the computers at school yet ... Lucky for them.. Heh heh
I suppose the good thing about him playing naughty tricks on me with my electronic stuff is that I am learning how to do different things with it to counter his moves.
I'm being taught by a four year old ... I really should be embarrassed to say that, shouldn't I?
SJ
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Posted by Becky Rock on 12-10-2009 at 20:37:
At least you figured out how to fix it. I'm so computer illiterate, I'd still be trying.
It took me a week to figure out how to turn off the mouse pad feature - I like traditional mouses.
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Posted by clouddancer on 12-10-2009 at 20:53:
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NO!!!!
SJ I have to say, as a teacher, I am taught something new by my 6 year olds every day .... or at least every school day. Some times I am taught something on weekends as well if I happen to be marking or if I am reflecting on something that happened during the week.
There is a saying something about "One has to learn something new every day." That is the way you need to look at it SJ - Joshie is teaching you something new.
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Posted by Firebird on 16-10-2009 at 11:12:
SJ you do realise you are going to ahve to find a way to play a prank back now.
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Posted by gatchgirl on 16-10-2009 at 15:12:
Sounds like your hands will be full for a lifetime SJ.
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Posted by Metaliant on 16-10-2009 at 19:22:
Well you know what they say aobut anti child products like those small gates at the top of the stairs or pill container tops......Adults can't open the gates or take of the container tops but the kids can,
Glad that I don't have any kids otherwise the world will be in deep trouble then.
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Posted by gatchamarie on 17-10-2009 at 10:19:
You're right, Met! I found out that these gadgets did not work for my kids from the very beginning as they intrigue them more and catch their eyes more often! I don't know how they do some things but, when she was only at the crawling stage, my daughter would jump over her bed's high bars and she could have easily been hurt more than if they weren't there in the first place! I found it much better to leave things as they normally are, certainly putting items that could hurt out of their reach, and explain to them millions of times why not to touch this or not to do that! 
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Posted by Metaliant on 17-10-2009 at 12:59:
And sometimes these kids can say something very profound.
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Posted by Hinotori on 18-10-2009 at 14:43:
Wow, SJ, sounds like you're going to have your work cut out for you!
I look at this way with all the "child resistant" stuff out there.. None of that was available when we were kids, and we all turned out ok. Oh, wait.... I think I just lost my argument. Nevermind.... 
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Posted by SJ_SwanJun on 18-10-2009 at 18:07:
Heh heh ... yeah he's a handful..
Hinotori, your comments reminded me of this little peach:
According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 40's, 50's, 60's, or even maybe the early 70's probably shouldn't have survived.
Our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paint.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets, and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets. (Not to mention the risks we took hitchhiking.)
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. Horrors!
We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing. We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one actually died from this.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then rode down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the street lights came on. No one was able to reach us all day. No cell phones. Unthinkable!
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, video tape movies, surround sound, personal cell phones, personal computers, or Internet chat rooms. We had friends! We went outside and found them. We played dodge ball, and sometimes, the ball would really hurt.
We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there were no lawsuits from these accidents. They were accidents. No one was to blame but us. Remember accidents?
We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and learned to get over it.
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms, and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the worms live inside us forever.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and knocked on the door, or rang the bell or just walked in and talked to them.
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment.
Some students weren't as smart as others, so they failed a grade and were held back to repeat the same grade. Horrors! Tests were not adjusted for any reason.
Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law. Imagine that!
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all. And you're one of them!
Congratulations!
Heh heh....
SJ
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Posted by amethyst on 18-10-2009 at 19:15:
Great post SJ. In fact whenever I read things like that it scares me as I wonder if we are raising a generation that not only has no sense of culpability, but does not no how to think beyond the known or the flock. And my children hate me for holding them to a higher standard than they think their friends are, and look at my like I'm insane when I pick up one of my father's greatest peeves: the government attempting to protect us from ourselves.
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Posted by Becky Rock on 18-10-2009 at 22:12:
I look at the things I did as a kid and in today's world, fear my son doing the same things. I think its more that the same things that happened 35 years ago happen today, but with instant news, everyone in the world, let alone in your neighborhood, hear about it and see it.
Neighbors watched out for each other and each others' kids. You feared your neighbor and much as you feared your parents and you didn't dare get on trouble at school. Teachers were to be listened to, not riduculed.
Not to mention the loss of morality - okay, I'll get off my high horse now. 
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Posted by UnpublishedWriter on 19-10-2009 at 02:01:
In general, kids today are doing all right. It's just that today's 24/7 infotainment media thrives on doom and gloom, and every time some kid behaves like an asshole, pundits come on to tell us that this generation is going straight to hell. Just as they've done ever since the invention of history. The ancient Greeks griped about their kids.
Anyone remember the juvenile 'superpredators' who were supposed to overwhelm us in the 1990s? They never appeared. The adolescents everyone feared were better-behaved than their parents.
Sensationalist media stories and urban legends make us afraid, when we only need to use common sense and vigilance. Parents need to be parents, not best buddies, not overprotective people who bully teachers into giving their children good grades and try to prevent their children being distressed by life. There is no 100% safety. There is no stress-free life.
There is life.
And mischievious four-year-olds who befuddle their parents.
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