Re:With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, th...
by rock_hard on Sunday January 28, 2018 @06:01PM
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Same with me when I was a kid.
My parents also missed tons of opportunities to help me start other hobbies such as learning to play a instrument which I would have loved.
So I stayed with the PC...lots of gaming initially, which lead to learning about hardware and how to build computers myself (gotta overclock that CPU)...but I also have to admit that it sparked the interest to make my own games early which led me to pick up programming and that opened up a ocean of opportunities later in life.
It’s really hard to know what skill will be useful later in life...so now that I have kids in my own I try to support their natural interests which also allows my wife and I to moderate thins like gaming to some reasonable degree.
My parents also missed tons of opportunities to help me start other hobbies such as learning to play a instrument which I would have loved.
So I stayed with the PC...lots of gaming initially, which lead to learning about hardware and how to build computers myself (gotta overclock that CPU)...but I also have to admit that it sparked the interest to make my own games early which led me to pick up programming and that opened up a ocean of opportunities later in life.
It’s really hard to know what skill will be useful later in life...so now that I have kids in my own I try to support their natural interests which also allows my wife and I to moderate thins like gaming to some reasonable degree.