Proud of you Nick! Lead by example is important and you have done it well!
I have taught my parents to use Line app and they have reconnected with many friends through it. Reconnecting printers and bookmark their favorite websites on chrome are some of the things they requested.
This is lovely, Nick. The cafe story, your project, that there’s a lamp metaphor involved (my favorite!), all of it.
My mom was horrified by technology, hated interacting with it. She never got a computer but she needed help with her phone: entering contacts into her contacts list, setting up and retrieving voicemail. Her only other bit of technology was her cable remote and box, which I troubleshot with her regularly.
More power to you and this sweet project. My mom would be proud of you, too.
Oh hi, Tina! Thanks for dropping by and leaving this lovely comment (and for the details! ✍️) - it's a pleasure and honour to know you're reading this.
What you said about your mom being horrified by technology got me wondering just how many of us will have our children saying that about us when we're quite a lot older. When we shun robotic AI personal assistants or find traveling by fully autonomous cars to be too hard to setup and summon. Topic for another time, perhaps...
To answer your question, my mom often asks for technical assistance with:
• Setting up the Healthy 365 app so she can log data from her smartwatch to the app. (This is the government’s initiative to encourage the elderly to exercise more.)
• Teaching her how to use Google Translate. Her English isn’t fluent, so she usually translates from Mandarin to English to communicate on WhatsApp.
• Showing my dad how to use Paynow for making payments or transferring money.
• Assisting my dad with printing tasks, such as downloading and installing printer drivers from his laptop.
Other minor tasks include:
• Connecting to Wi-Fi.
• Resolving the “phone storage is full” error.
• Finding the best driving route from one location to another using Google Maps.
Proud of you Nick! Lead by example is important and you have done it well!
I have taught my parents to use Line app and they have reconnected with many friends through it. Reconnecting printers and bookmark their favorite websites on chrome are some of the things they requested.
This is lovely, Nick. The cafe story, your project, that there’s a lamp metaphor involved (my favorite!), all of it.
My mom was horrified by technology, hated interacting with it. She never got a computer but she needed help with her phone: entering contacts into her contacts list, setting up and retrieving voicemail. Her only other bit of technology was her cable remote and box, which I troubleshot with her regularly.
More power to you and this sweet project. My mom would be proud of you, too.
Oh hi, Tina! Thanks for dropping by and leaving this lovely comment (and for the details! ✍️) - it's a pleasure and honour to know you're reading this.
What you said about your mom being horrified by technology got me wondering just how many of us will have our children saying that about us when we're quite a lot older. When we shun robotic AI personal assistants or find traveling by fully autonomous cars to be too hard to setup and summon. Topic for another time, perhaps...
Thanks for sharing, Nick!
To answer your question, my mom often asks for technical assistance with:
• Setting up the Healthy 365 app so she can log data from her smartwatch to the app. (This is the government’s initiative to encourage the elderly to exercise more.)
• Teaching her how to use Google Translate. Her English isn’t fluent, so she usually translates from Mandarin to English to communicate on WhatsApp.
• Showing my dad how to use Paynow for making payments or transferring money.
• Assisting my dad with printing tasks, such as downloading and installing printer drivers from his laptop.
Other minor tasks include:
• Connecting to Wi-Fi.
• Resolving the “phone storage is full” error.
• Finding the best driving route from one location to another using Google Maps.
Hey JL! Thanks for the super detailed response. ✍️ Much of this stuff is so relatable...