True Dat!!! Its all just a game, and a very easy one.
>From: "Dale Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: "Dale Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: WHIZZ KIDS WHO HAVE THE CCIE number
>Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 10:29:07 EDT
>
>Except that when you are that young and also that intelligent, doing things
>like going to chucky cheese makes you want to go postal...
>
>A recent experience I had with a similarly gifted child drove the point
>home. At a birthday party at the earlier mentioned Chucky Cheese's, I saw
>this particular young girl (my neice, who is 12 years old) crying. Not
>weeping or wailing, but just one or two tears as she looked out over the
>play area.
>
>"What's wrong?" I asked her.
>
>"Look at all the sad, silly little morons!" she said.
>
>"What's wrong with them?" I asked.
>
>She looked at me and asked "Did you ever look at someone and see their
>whole
>life - everything that's ever gonna happen to them - and you can't even
>tell
>them because they don't believe you?"
>
>"Yes" I said, stunned...
>
>"It's sad, that's all" she said.
>
>"Wanna go to the bookstore?" I asked.
>
>"YEAH!" she said, and she was out the door like greased lightning.
>
>Smart kids need challenges and interesting diversions, not fertilizer for
>vegetation. Things that are great fun for most kids are insipid to them.
>They have an appetite for greater and greater things, and that appetite
>needs to be fed. I do the best I can as her uncle. With parts I gave her,
>she built her own Pentium PC, and installs her own software (NT 4, IE 5,
>language software, games, etc.). I am not sure what she does with the
>chemistry set I gave her, but she hasn't burned the house down yet... She
>hasn't started any Cisco certs yet, but the idea appeals to her.
>
>Kids that do go after certs aren't comsumed by them like adults are. They
>just play it like a game, and do it in between all the other stuff they do.
>It's fun for them, and they relish the challenge.
>
>PS - the book my neice decided on that day was a book of soccer plays and
>strategies - she's on the team this year and is really giving it her all...
>so being smart doesn't make here a "bookworm". She still gets out there and
>lives her life, she just needs a lttle something more than Pokemon and
>video
>games.
>
>Dale
>[=`)
>
>>From: "NetEng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Reply-To: "NetEng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: Re: WHIZZ KIDS WHO HAVE THE CCIE number
>>Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 10:41:09 -0500
>>
>>If your 12 or even 18 and trying to acheive any certification, your life
>>must suck. What happened to having a childhood? I didn't know what I
>>wanted
>>to do until I was 20something. These kids should be forced to go to
>>ChuckyCheese eveyday for a year.
>>
>>"Kris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> > I commend young kids who attempt and more importantly achieve these
>> > things. Though at a young age I was actively involved in subjects
>>taught
>> > in most first year university comp sci courses, I must say that it
>>pales
>> > in comparisson to a 12 year old who is working towards CCIE. He is
>> > sponsored by Global Knowledge btw.
>> >
>> > Kris,
>> >
>> > > From: "McCallum, Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > > Subject: WHIZZ KIDS WHO HAVE THE CCIE number
>> > >
>> > > Here is a little poser for you all. Who is / was the youngest CCIE
>>and
>> > what
>> > > was his / her age when they attained the CCIE?
>> > >
>> > > Robert McCallum
>> >
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