It’s been a long time since BoBo was hooked on computer programs by The Learning Company. I remember him spending endless hours with Reader Rabbit and Carmen San Diego. He loved these learning programs and thrived on the constant encouragement the program dished out. Somehow, we seemed to have sped through the stage with YaYa, or perhaps I have just blocked it all out.
Today, however, we loaded in a new computer program that I bought to help YaYa develop his typing skills. The program seems to be easy to use and has successfully grabbed YaYa’s attention and held it to the point that I may have to wrestle him off of the computer soon.
The only down side for me is that every few seconds, there is an encouraging comment being made by one of the characters from the show SpongeBob SquarePants. If you have seen the show, you know that there is only so much SpongeBob SquarePants that a mother can tolerate.
Hopefully, he will improve his typing skills before I throw the CD out the window.
LOL- this people that design these programs obviously have not listened to them for any period of time. Good luck to YaYa!
YaYa figured out, without my telling him how annoying the sounds were, how to turn down the sounds, music, and voices. They each have slider tools to adjust so that you can have only the voice prompts but not the music, etc. Smart kid!
I can imagine how that would get annoying. My 12 year old types like 95 words a minute. That’s really sad :-) OK. Not really…
My boys had two typing programs – the oh-so-sedate Mavis Beacon, and a Mario Brothers. I much prefered the quiet Mavis!
He’ll be a typing whiz before you know it!
Whenever SBSP came on the t.v. I would clap my hands on to my ears and shout “hit the mute button!” until they did. That’s got to be the most annoying music on the planet, and it sticks in the brain.
Glad he found the sound controls for it.
these stories make me chuckle, but then I duck and hope the lightening (or the karma) misses me. I have a long way to go~