My daughter has had a laptop for two years now. For school. But not just for school: the thing is used for everything (i.e. Minecraft). And if she isn't using it herself, the youngest one is sitting on it. At the end of April, she started complaining: my laptop just shuts down! I took a quick look: what kind of junk is all this? VPN software and whatnot (long story, another blog). I explained that if you put all sorts of junk on your laptop, it becomes unreliable. I uninstalled a few things and, above all, placed the responsibility on her: this is your laptop, you have to take good care of it. In the past, you gave children a pet to teach them responsibility; nowadays, it's a laptop. But the complaints didn't stop; they even seemed to get worse. But she understood: this is my problem. So, no complaining, but finding solutions herself. Until last week, when she uttered the magic words: “I went to the school’s IT department.” This was a slap in the face. Aha, so this is what happens…
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