Teaching parents the art of using computers.
Well, have you guys and girls ever helped your parents out with such a stuff, ever seriously tried teaching them on how to operate the computer?? How to chat via msn?
So, I want to teach my walida mohtarma ( or atleast I am contemplating over this issue) on how to go about using this machine. It means I need to tell her that shut down does not mean you go and switch off the computer straight away, rather you take step by step approach. I am myself not a computer expert but I can manage given the nature of my job. Anyhow, my sister-in-law to be wants her mother-in-law to be, to learn the basics so that she can chat with her and she expects me to do the honors.
Well when my mom is alone, she chats with her sisters (ofcourse at a ver small speed), but when me or my brother are there and try to teach her something, she just acts like she doesnt know anything.
Minerva since my older brother went abroad in late 90's we taught my mom the very basics, like how to shut down the computer and how to connect to the net and check email long time back. then she slowly learnt a bit more, now she is quite good mashallah, i mean she can surf the web and also use winamp and msn. quite an accomplishment [mashallah] since like many females my mom is a technology phobe :D
my father doesn't know how to use computers but he's planning to learn too since he's a teacher and it's going to make things much easier for him if he learns, and all his colleagues use computers.
It takes a whole lot of time and patients. My last job was to teach older people how to use the net and establish email, whoa, some of them drive you isane. What I used to do is make them take notes, and using those notes make them login, surf the net, read email, and shut down the PC by themselves.
I've tought a lot of people, yet when it comes to my mom I can't even get her to sit down infront of the computer, she starts cleaning it, does anything but try to learn how to use the net or email
My father develops and manages several websites in his spare time. My only gripe is that he usually puts a background music on the home page that is hard to shut off, without reducing the volume manually. I will, Insha Allah, have a word with him about it, next time we have our video chat.
My dad is old school in every respect and has this general fear of computers. So last year I registered him on yahoo and setup his email account… he sounded quite suspicious about the whole thing..he treats yahoo like some Pakistani sarkari mehkmaa..doesn’t trust his documents/emails with them. Anyhoo, so I was showing him how to compose a message /send and logout but the task became bigger than I had imagined… He is very sensitive when it comes to me ‘teaching’ him something. We both lost patience at one point …he went back to his stories from 60s when he got scholorship in IBA for his MBA and made sure that I understand that he is intelligent and the new technology is just not his cup of tea.
My dad is a funny character..I can write a book on him and sell it to Seinfeld.
lol this is funny.Actually to tell you the truth Minerva, I dont know a thing about computers.I can use MSN and surf the net.However, apart from the very basics, I have no clue about computers.As for my parents, they're the same.My bros are the experts in my house.
Its hard to teach them...
few weeks ago i was teaching my uncle how to scroll down a page..
its funny how they just have that blank look on their faces..
Just create a new user account and put limited websites in favourites,
and teach them to just click on it.. it would make your life easier..
Have that auto sign in for msn, so its easy for her..
i did that with my auntie... but she got the hang of signing in and out...
But my saas 2 be doesnt… once jawad (hubby 2 be) was sending me greeting card through the net and asked his mom if she wanted to add any line… she was like “ beta aap is waqt post office jaogae, raat ke 12 bajay hain”
my mom can surf just fine.. but for some reason she always gets confused when i say go to hotmail.. she goes.. where is it??? all this when she can easly reach jang-group all on her own..
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my mom can surf just fine.. but for some reason she always gets confused when i say go to hotmail.. she goes.. where is it??? all this when she can easly reach jang-group all on her own.**
me dad is on the computer alllll the time (he is retiered now) surfs and plays yahoo games like scrable and such…he was on it so much that i had to get him a computer for his room !!! initially it took a while b4 he got to grips wit the whole windows thing…but he is a silver surfer now.
i tried teaching me mum but to no avail… she cant even control the mouse, so i’ve given up on her.
My ammi jaan teaches C++ and all the other antique computer languages to community college students. She still loves Fortran and Pascal . Lately she has begun to hate anything to do with this new ‘internet age’. I think she is ready for retirement.
…he went back to his stories from 60s when he got scholorship in IBA for his MBA and made sure that I understand that he is intelligent and the new technology is just not his cup of tea.
beta aap is waqt post office jaogae, raat ke 12 bajay hain”
