[dangwu]

If you gave computer manuals to kids today, they'd cry and beg for their phones back

[dang]

Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. Especially not generational flamewar, which is particularly contentless.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[darkpuma]

When I was a kid, some of my friends would whine whenever their parents took away their gameboy. But I didn't have a gameboy, so I never had the opportunity to whine about it being taken.

[lacampbell]

What's your point? Most kids back then would have cried and begged for their comics back, or for the television to be switched back on.

[dangwu]

I'm disagreeing with OP's suggestion that giving computer manuals to kids is a "fairly effective way to create world-changing computer engineers."

[fao_]

You could give computer manuals, but you have to:

a) praise achievement not intelligence

and

b) Create an interest first. Maybe make it seem like magic or show something that you can do with it.

[lacampbell]

And I think it depends on the kid, and the fact that smart phones exists now makes little difference.

[kart23]

Dont give them a phone in the first place

[option]

its mostly terms of use and legal disclaimers these days /s

[leetrout]

Applies to college age kids as well.

[na85]

Yes, those lazy milennials with their instant grahams and their books of faces