Born Digital
I resisted getting a computer in our home until my oldest was in the fifth grade. We were about a year behind most of his classmates in joining the trend and we didn't have the internet at home for another two or three years. Now, about 13 years later, we have a desktop computer and four laptops (one for each of the kids and one for me from my employer) plus a wireless network. (I resisted going wireless when I last purchased a printer, but I'm beginning to see the advantages of having one). All of this equipment is in pretty much constant use--I'll even admit to IMing my children when I am on the desktop in the basement and they are on laptops in their rooms (but for a really good reason as I was having trouble with some sort of computer application, probably the iPod). So it was really frustrating last weekend when our internet service was out for two days. Questions came up several times about various things, mainly about the college admissions process that our daughter ...