Teaching the kids typing - what a hoot!!

**homesteadmamma** · 09-04-2003, 09:34 AM

I decided to give the kids the gift of typing this year. Its something that once they have, they'll be able to use for a lifetime. But what a hoot teaching them.

It takes a lot of patience because I'd rather be doing the typing (my favorite subject in school) and its slow going. Dd picked up on it really quickly, but ds#1 just kept going UGH!!!! He likes to do things his way but you just can't do that in typing.

Have you taught your kids typing or even how to use a calculator without looking at the numbers and where to place your fingers properly?

**Darlene** · 09-04-2003, 09:44 AM

My kids can type like pros & learned in school. I just can't . The fingers and the brain don't go work together like they need to unless I look at the keys.
I just don't think I am wired to do it.

My kids are always making fun of me. I can use more than one finger

and my typing is getting faster.

**Sara Noel** · 09-04-2003, 10:04 AM

Mavis! Mavis! Mavis! lol We used to use the typing tutor just for fun here.
I can type fast, but not with the best accuracy. I haven't taught Zachary to type and because I don't type properly...I don't think I should be the one to teach him.
I'd let him play with Mavis though.

**Darlene** · 09-04-2003, 10:10 AM

Mavis was nice enough to me,lol, but she was unable to help this typing misfit.

**Katybird** · 09-04-2003, 11:34 AM

My kids all learned in school too. I would have loved to have taught them but they learned before we had a computer or typewriter at home, DS was a 2000 graduate and he started using the computer and learning to type in Kindegarten.

It sounds like a fun course to teach your kids. Have fun and enjoy this time.