Chapter Seventy-One: Family Internet Cafes
One day after the start of school, I waited for Yang Yang at the school gate as usual after getting off work, but this time after Yang Yang came out of school, he refused to get on my bicycle and said that he wanted to go to the Internet café to play! Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Nowadays, the word "Internet café" is a terrible word for many parents, who think that the Internet café is a pool of sulfuric acid, and as soon as children enter it, they will be corroded, they will learn badly, they will abandon their studies, and they will even embark on the road of crime! Therefore, many parents talk about the discoloration of the Internet, and they have a rejection attitude towards new things such as computers and Internet networks, just like drugs!
And Yangyang is going to an Internet café! If outsiders hear it, they will definitely think that this child is not good at studying, and he must be a student who does not like to study, even if Lu Tao hears it, he will definitely be furious.
It's a tough time to accept something new, just as my mom still can't get used to young girls' backless outfits and young boys' ripped jeans.
To be honest, I don't support Yangyang going to an Internet café to play, because the Internet café is full of a lot of bad teenagers, who play video games for a long time regardless of their studies, and even participate in electronic gambling and watch pornographic videos, so children who play in Internet cafes are indeed easy to be assimilated by them and become degenerate.
I still don't fully understand the impact of computers and the Internet on our lives, but perhaps it is due to the pressure of today's students and the need for indulgence and the appeal of things like video games. However, it is undeniable that computers and networks, revolutionary electronic tools, have become a part of people's lives and work, especially in work, which are indispensable. However, everything has good and bad sides, and the world is in contradiction, and it is precisely because of this that the world is constantly moving forward, which is the law of nature. If you think about it this way, you can understand the negative impact of computers and the Internet, and I believe that this negative impact will become smaller and smaller, because its function to help people learn, calculate, and communicate will always be dominant.
My problem was that I couldn't explain to Yangyang why the Internet café was bad and why I couldn't go, and Yangyang had completely ignored my advice and ran to the Internet café near the school alone. There are many shops near the school, including food stores, toy stores, stationery stores and Internet cafes, with the largest number of Internet cafes being the most numerous. I had to run after Yang Yang because I couldn't get him out of my sight.
When our mother and son walked into the Internet café together, the staff of the Internet café saw that we didn't know what to say for a while, obviously, the staff suddenly couldn't figure out whether I was sending the child to the Internet café to play, or chasing after me to catch the child back. Therefore, the staff did not dare to rashly say the word "please come in" to us.
Of course, I hoped that the staff would keep Yang Yang out of the door and not let him in, but the staff didn't say anything and let Yang Yang walk in directly. Because the law only stipulates that minors are not allowed to enter Internet cafes, but it does not stipulate that they are not allowed to enter under the leadership of their parents, not to mention that this regulation has always been a dead letter, and now any Internet café is crowded with teenage children. So I have nothing to say about the staff's unhindered treatment of Yangyang. I can't stop him as a mother, can anyone else stop him?
Under normal circumstances, if parents appear in an Internet café, they are looking for their own children, and people are often presented with violent scenes of kicking and beating their children out of the Internet café. But I took the initiative to bring my children here, which made the staff and the young people who were playing games in the Internet café look at me with wide eyes, and they couldn't believe that there were such mothers in the world! Maybe in the eyes of the staff and other adults, I was a very ridiculous mother, because they thought that parents bringing their children to play in Internet cafes were as ridiculous as taking their children to take drugs. On the contrary, for those minors who are playing games, they will definitely sigh, how can there be such a good mother in the world who still accompanies her son to play in the Internet café! And I only know that I can't stop Yang Yang from entering the Internet café now, and it is useless to say to him that children are not allowed to enter the Internet café, because he knows that there are many children playing in the Internet café, and now he also sees that there is a child who is playing video games younger than him. In addition, I couldn't explain the pros and cons of Internet cafes to him for a while, especially the cons!
Next, I took Yangyang to find a seat and sat down in the amazed eyes of everyone, and I paid two yuan to buy an hour of Internet time. In fact, I also really want to play with the computer and go to the Internet, and my desire to buy a computer is as strong as Lu Tao's desire to buy a car. In other words, I brought Yangyang to the Internet café not only as a helplessness, but also as if I pretended to be helpless and followed Yangyang eagerly to come here to experience the current computers and networks that can best represent the achievements of social innovation.
But soon I found that I couldn't do anything sitting in front of the computer, I couldn't even find the computer's switch there, and I didn't know how to start it! I sat stupidly with Yang Yang for a while, and had to ask the person next to me for help, which was also Yang Yang reminded me. To my left was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy, to whom I was embarrassed to say:
"Could you please help us turn on the computer?"
"All right!" said the boy, cheerfully agreeing to my request.
I didn't expect that I had to ask a child for help in front of the computer, which was like an old farmer who had never read a book and asked a literate person to help him read a child's letter, embarrassed but not ashamed. The world is moving so fast that it inevitably leaves the older ones behind. Although I am not very old, computers and the Internet have only been popularized nationwide in recent years, so even if I am older, I am a person who does not understand it, and I am a person who is almost thrown off by it.
I had never seen a computer in high school, and although I had computer classes and studied the Becky language for a semester in college, the final gain was only to know that the microcomputer is a high-tech product, and its computing speed is amazing, and the Becky language is one of its commonly used languages. At that time, the computers that taught us were not connected to the Internet, and I couldn't see any web pages, typing and chatting apps, let alone video games.
However, after 1994, computers and the Internet quickly spread in China, and now we have several computers in our unit, but they are all operated by a few college students who have just graduated from college, and people above my age almost do not use computers. Sometimes those of us who are computer blind want to save the trouble of writing, and we have to turn to young colleagues for help to type a material. So I've always wanted to learn how to use computers, and I don't have to ask for help when I type materials in the future, and I also want to surf the Internet and browse the web at will. I know there's a lot of stuff on the web.
The teenager next to me was very enthusiastic, not only helped us turn on the computer, but also taught us how to click and select web pages, how to use typing software and how to play games, and finally, I also asked the teenager to teach me how to operate Word software. In this way, it seems that Yang Yang and I are here for a free computer class!
But in less than an hour, Yangyang and I couldn't stay in the Internet café anymore, where the light was dim, the air was dirty, and the smell of smoke and various odors emitted from people's bodies filled the whole space, making people feel that they couldn't breathe. By the time I felt my head start to hurt, Ling Yangyang left the Internet café.
On the way home, I said to Yangyang: "You see that there are so many people in the Internet café and the air is not good, so let's go less in the future." ”
Yangyang, who was still on the rise, didn't agree with my words at all, and said: "It doesn't matter, there are more people in the movie theater than in the Internet café, and the air is even worse, so why do we still go to the movies?"
In this way, Yang Yang often said that I had no life to say.
Later, at Yangyang's strong request, I took him to an Internet café a few times, but I felt that it was not good to go on like this, so I had to find a way. What can I do? My mind flashed, it was better to buy a computer at home! Actually, it wasn't a flash in my head, as I said earlier, I had this kind of thought for a long time, but now I just pretend to have a flash in my head, and I always think that the sudden idea must be a great wisdom! Buying a computer and letting Yang Yang surf the Internet at home is better than going to an Internet café, right? In that case, I can supervise him and cook at the same time. Besides, I can access the Internet at any time, and the home environment is much better than that of an Internet café, how quiet is it?
I'm a person who just wants to do something, and I immediately put it into action, otherwise I won't be able to sleep at night! But now computers are still a luxury for ordinary families, and I can only buy a low-configuration ordinary computer with four months' salary. It seems that if you want to buy a computer, you have to borrow money from others! With whom? My mother and younger brother have become very financially strapped since they entered the city, and they often can't even pay my little niece's baby fees. Later, I called a few other classmates and friends, and the next day I finally borrowed 3,000 yuan from two of them, and I went to the store to buy the computer home the same day. It is a home computer with a Lenovo brand hard drive that is only 40G in size.
I know that Lu Tao will scream when he sees a computer, and he is also the kind of person who sees a computer as a drug. But I don't bother to pay attention to him, since he started a clothing business with Liu Jia, I don't pay much attention to him.
"You're going to let Yangyang learn badly, and besides, if our mortgage hasn't been paid off yet, you'll buy a computer!" Lu Tao reprimanded me.
"If you can watch TV, you can't play on the computer? In addition to the function of TV, the computer can also let people learn a lot of things on the Internet, you see I downloaded a software for Yangyang to memorize English words, and you can learn English well without going to cram school!" I tried my best to show Lu Tao the usable side of the computer, and I wanted to reverse his outdated ideas.
"Learn English? I think if you can't learn English, Yangyang will become a game fan!"
"I'll supervise him, otherwise wouldn't it be more difficult for him to go to an Internet café?"
"I don't care about you anymore, see what you can teach Yangyang to be, don't blame me if he can't get into college in the future!"
Lu Tao was nagging, but his ass sat in front of the computer.
"Huh, aren't you against buying a computer?" and you still want to play with a computer?" I said deliberately.
"Since you've already bought it, just play it, don't play and don't spend your money in vain?!" he still looked very reasonable.
A computer has opened a window to the world for my family, allowing us to know a lot of things and knowledge that we didn't know before through the Internet. In the following days, I didn't see Yang Yang become a game fan, and Lu Tao and I became a pair of net worms! )