It’s because the PiperCub is developing faster than anticipated.
Mrs Piper shut the Mac down yesterday, unplugged the cord from it, closed the screen, and went to the next room.
I came in a few minutes later, and the Cub had plugged the cord back into the Mac, flipped open the screen, and turned it on. It had just gone “ding” and he was standing in front of it, hands on the key board, ready to go. He saw me coming and gave me a big grin.
He’s two.
Time to password-protect it, now! :eek:
Nah, he’s probably already re-set the admin password. Face it - they’re toast. 
Oo, good point.
Sorry man, you know kids are better at tech than adults are. Accept your fate.
Oh my a precocious one. Good luck…er I mean congratulations! :smack:
Plugging the cord in is pretty impressive. My standard technique for preventing Unauthorised TV Viewing is to unplug the arial at the back - nobody’s twigged to that one yet.
I bet I know just the cheeky grin on the Piper Cub’s face though. It’s probably the same one our Smallest Boy wears as he moves Every. Single. item on the desktop into the dock, and Every. Single app that’s currently in the dock out of it.
Just as well they’re too cute to murder!
my daughter has been able to run the pc since she was 3 or so. She can click on the user account icon we have created for her (Ours is password protected), once in she double clicks to get the browser, then goes to favorites and clicks to go to the cbeebiew website (which is about the only one she’s allowed to under current settings) and then she picks a game and plays.
Maybe he’ll teach me how to put the password protection on…
You’re posting from the future???!!!
Do they have REAL Flying Cars yet?
My daughter is inexorably drawn to anything with buttons that mom & dad like to play with. (Like every other kid in the known universe, I’ll bet.) Phones, all the remotes, Wii, buttons on consoles, keyboards, etc. – all over that. (She is 17 months old.)
Last week she pulled a portable hard drive out from under my desk, plugged it into the front of my PC. and (thanks in part to the miracle of AutoPlay options,) banged on the keyboard enough to get a video playing, all in the space of a few minutes. I’m glad it serendipitously happened to be one that was loaded up with children’s programs, and not the Household Repository of Filthy Nasty Pornography.
My coworker downloaded some cute apps for his almost 2 year old daughter on his iPhone. Stuff like keyboard playing things where you hit virtual keys.
Well, he’s given up on that. The daughter just likes to hit the big button that takes you back to the home screen! 
Why? I can’t see anything that might go badly here.
Well played Sir
Trumped my post that was going to be about password-protecting before you get a reputation that simply won’t die!
You’re lucky. I’ve met kids that would either stick the cord in their butt or into their brain through their ears.
So, Piper…not a Time Travel Thread, then?:dubious:
And if that doesn’t work, disconnect the Comic Sans.
I was waiting for someone to refer to this, but I didn’t expect it would be you, Hal. You are now officially my hero. I wanna be just like you when I grow up.
Well, there might be *one *thing I’d change…
At two, Number One Nephew ruined two of my brother’s computers after learning to plug them in and turn them on… and then knew you put something into the USB port…
At three, he hijacked my brother’s Netflix account and stuffed it full of Thomas the Train DVDs. He was quite content for the month before that all got sorted out.
Now he’s seven, and completely reconfigures my parents’ PC every time he’s over there. (necessitating Uncle Lightray to go over to reset the homepage, screen saver, wallpaper, appearance preferences, etc., etc.)
The OP is doomed already. May as well buy the Cub a Mac of his own, already.
Comic Sans should be disconnected regardless of whether or not anything is working!