Use Linux to help your kids gain an edge over their counterparts!

This is a great article to read if you are seriously interested in finding good ways to give your kids an edge in life. This particular article gives me additional inspiration to fuel my wish to see my children (when I have them!) to be tech-geeky... even if that isn't their chosen profession or passionate-hobby, just being tech-geeky is ultra-important in today's environment... and what a better opportunity than using Linux to teach your 8-year-old all about computers!

"Have you ever thought about turning your kid into a computer geek? While we might not want to go quite that far, as savvy future professionals, they'll no doubt need wide ranging computer skills. Linux offers youngsters a richly featured, comprehensive, hands-on environment that they can use to learn about applications, networks, servers, and how to make it all work together. If you work with them, you can even start to instill some of your hard-earned business acumen, as well."

There is another article here about a family that created a log-in for their 4-year-old so that she can "color" pictures, go to SesameStreet.com, and play her kid-CD's. What a great idea!

"We praise her on jobs done well... and print many of her TuxPaint pictures... [and] we brag about her to our friends just loud enough that she knows we are proud of her. The next time you hear someone say that using Linux is hard, tell them that you know of one four-year-old who has been handling it daily for more than a year. Linux is not hard unless you convince yourself that it is."