My 9-year-old son, Billy, asked if he could use the computer to search the web for information about using a cactus for electricity. I asked him if he knew how to search the web and he said yes. He went to yahooligans.com and started searching. He didn't find any good information so I showed him how to seach an online encyclopedea. We found an article about cacti and there was a link on the page to print it. Clicked the link and it wanted us to sign up for some crap so I told him I'd teach him how to cut and paste. I started to show him how to highlight the text and he interrupted me. I told him to just listen a minute and then showed him how to highlight the text, then right-click and then click "copy." Then we opened up Notepad and I said "Now, I click 'edit' and then 'paste.' See how it pasted in the stuff we just highlighted? Neat, huh?" He said "Yeah. You could have pressed ctrl-v to paste it instead, though." *ahem* I'm glad I was able to help clear up the whole cut-and-paste thing for him. I'm not looking forward to the day when I explain the birds-and-the-bees to him... I might be in for a shock. Hell, I might even learn something. :-)
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19 years ago