Went To My Mother's Today

Parent Frusterated Over The Computer - This should've been a woman for it would've fit my mother perfectly! She gets so upset when her computer doesn't work right but it's her that isn't working it right! lol
@CatsandDogs (13963)
United States
March 13, 2008 7:35pm CST
to help her with her computer. She's so illiterate that it's not even funny. She had switched ip's and some how couldn't get any thing to open so I went to her house and showed her what she was doing wrong, which was not getting online first. lol Poor mom. She's on dial up again and hates it with such a passion and has to relearn how to do it again. It's so different from dsl and oh my gosh sooo slow! I feel for her and offered for her to come to my house to get her email but she's always too busy. Hubby was with me and he fixed her water fountain. It had been knocked over by the high winds and it got broke. Hubby was able to cement it back together. Just after he finished fixing it, he got the phone call from his sister about their mom. Have you ever had to help your parents out with the computer? Are you able to get them to understand?
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debshie
@debshie (392)
• Philippines
14 Mar 08
dont be frustrated, its justa computer and anyways, when they were growing up, its not a big part of their lives you know. We are just luccky that we know these things now. Technology advances way to fast for us to catch up, and someday, we will have our turn. Our children will be the ones teaching us since we've run out of things to teach them. There are far worse circumstances thatn what you have right now.
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CatsandDogs
@CatsandDogs (13963)
• United States
14 Mar 08
This reminds me of my grandmother so much - because she knitted alot and couldn't keep up with technology.
That's what I tell her but she gets frusterated nonetheless. She has a terrible memory problem due to a fall from a galloping horse when she was much younger and she hit the bumper of a parked car and slid the whole length of the car to the other end. The doctor didn't expect her to live but she beat the odds but it has really messed her memory up so to for me to try teaching her anything is like talking to a wall because she can't retain it. Even if she took notes, she still can't remember what I told her. It's really sad but yes you're so right about technology advancing so much and how the young ones will be teaching us a few things when we get older. My grandmother used to say "I don't understand, I just don't understand" and now I see how she felt because I find myself saying that now! lol