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How I am teaching my 61 years old mom operating computer/mobile

Learning ..its that phenomenon which changes with Age. For kids its easy to learn ..they don't care of the consequence. But for elders its most difficult; reason, they are more cautious about their acts. They do care about all consequences and hence slow learning. I was amazed at my 4 year old nephew when he could open the photos from gallery in touch phone without even telling/showing him once. But it took me 3 attempts for explaining my mom how to swipe on touch mobile then which icon to touch to open gallery. I gifted my mom a tablet to have a bigger screen and touch experience too. But after operating tablet it was hard to explain how on a laptop cursor moves with finger touch on touchpad/mousepad but not on screen. Later came the toughest part which I never thought it can come as hardest. Yes, its the "double click" which I think all of our generation picked so fast that never thought of this hurdle. She is still struggling with double touch/click for sel...

The Best compliments of my Life

Well!! Everyone would think, for a girl the best compliment would come from her boyfriend/husband. But in my case its bit different ..because I am yet to meet any of these :D So here are the compliments : 1) The best compliment by one of my Professor cum colleague, this is when I joined the college as lecturer after completing my M.Tech. I got the privilege to work under this great Professor, who actually taught me the pros and cons of Professional behavior. I used to patiently learn each of those. And one fine day after 3-4 months working with him  when we were talking about my family stuff, he said "Perhaps, If I would have a son of your age or older I would have made you my daughter in law :D You are more like a daughter to me ". I smiled :) didn't have words to respond back 2)  Along with 200 people I joined my first company as fresher. During the training period one day I was in restroom, combing my hair in front of mirror, two girls from my batch came in, a...