I’m sorry I forget

I’m sorry I got frustrated. He was having a hard time trying to figure out what the printer icon looked like and maybe I wasn’t explaining it correctly. Maybe talking on the phone was a little difficult. We got the paper the print eventually. He thanked me with some enthusiasm and I felt some relief.

I forget that my Dad didn’t grow up with computers. It wasnt until I asked him the interview question that I realized how difficult it all must be for him. He didn’t start using one until he was an adult and I’ve had computers around almost my whole life. Even something as simple as printing out a paper is another world to him sometimes. So I’m sorry Dad that I forget you grew up in another time.

When you were growing up, how much school reading and school writing was done with computers?  What kinds of things did you do?  What values did your teachers place on computer literacy?

 

He didn’t have computers in the classroom growing up. It wasn’t until he went into the navy in the late eighties that he started learning how to use a computer. He remembers going to Radio Shack and buying video games that he would have to program in the computer.