Virtually Smart Kiddos

I don’t know what  would be the appropriate title for this super duper random article for today, but I thought whatever, haha! If you notice, the kids nowadays are virtually smarter than the rest of us. Anyone would agree, I know. 

The story of my friend who now manages a printing company reminded me of my nephew when he was younger. At the age of four or five, he loved to play Starcraft- a popular online game  way back, and both my sister and brother (my nephew’s dad) used to play this game too during their free time. Apparently, the curious kid would also sneak playing this game on the computer whenever he got bored playing the games on Friv. 

One day, the mother got annoyed that the little boy would no longer leave the computer because he got hooked playing Starcraft. We wanted to delete it, but instead we kept the game hidden from the desktop window. Unfortunately, the boy also knows how to look for it in the folders, and to our surprise he’s playing the game again the next day.

We thought hiding it won’t solve the problem, so we desperately searched for ways to outsmart this little kiddo. How? I maneuvered the language settings of the game and set it to a foreign language. I don’t know what I picked but I’m pretty sure it was not English or Filipino. Perhaps, Chinese or French? LOL!

Again, surprisingly, our jaws dropped when we saw my nephew navigate the game from the intro to the finale of the game flawlessly clicking the jargoned buttons like crazy! Oh well, we realized that even if it was set in our language or  English, he would know everything without reading because 5-year old’s don’t read, they memorize!

Sigh. Better delete Starcraft then! LOL!

My lady friend and mom whom I had an opportunity to play catch up over dinner had a wee bit similar experience with her son. 

Back at work, being a manager, she instituted a rule that there would be no playing games on the computers. The games were all deleted, and to avoid being a hypocrite she had an Information Technologist get rid of the games on her laptop too.

One evening, she was shocked to find her son playing solitaire on it. She asked if he had loaded the game. But, answered “No, it was already there. It was just hidden- taken off from the main menu and desktop window.”

The next day, she chided the information technologist in the office for not deleting the game as her child was able to play. “But,” he explained, “I thought I just had to keep it away from you- not from your six year old."

Oh well, smart kids!

I hope this super duper random article cheers up your evening/ day, everyone!

Thanks for reading!

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07/04/2022

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