Parenting: Hands-On vs. Digital
Nick D'Aloisio on stage at CES 2014 (Photo credit: Yahoo UK Media Relations ) 20-July-2014 ----- by Peter Catapano Parents who spent their own formative years with textbooks, pencils and typewriters can tell you that our technological age can be a confusing place to raise a child. But some things never change. Parents still want the best for their young. It's likely that the couple who raised Nick D'Aloisio , a 17-year-old British high school student, are pretty pleased. Nick recently sold his news-reading app, Summly , to Yahoo for a price reported to be in the tens of millions of dollars. Nick's mother and father apparently had no special knowledge of technology but nurtured their son's early interest in it. While money doesn't signify a lifetime of good parenting, it reduces the urgency of the question of what Nick will do to make a living. This is not the case for almost every other young person entering the work world. "There is incr...