Do
you have kids?
If so, here’s an idea!
While you are out of the house one Saturday afternoon, tell your children its 
okay
to play in your bedroom; tell them to go search through your personal
belongings, your banking and other financial information, your letters, and
perhaps more. Even better; have
them invite a friend over to share in the fun.
I know! Let them take a few items out of the room, perhaps misplace
something or maybe give a few items to whoever happens to come by.
Bad idea? Then why do you let it happen? If you share your PC with the kids for even seemingly simple tasks, you risk losing important information you have stored. Information like banking and credit card accounts, personal correspondence, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses are mixed with games and chitchat. Even if your child is computer savvy and trustworthy, the things a young person uses a computer for such as games can change system settings and increase the risk of a system failure. Text chats are great fun but as they become more interactive, they expose your computer to the world. These are only two examples of the countless reasons to get the kids their own PC.
If you still choose to take care of your financial matters and other correspondence the old fashion way, you are wasting your valuable time. With minimal computer skills, you can begin to manage your finances online safely and quickly. You can check the status of an account, transfer money, pay a bill, and review your phone usage, or credit card purchases before the billing cycle is complete. You can change your long distance plan and even order pizza for the family without picking up the phone and dealing with that guy you can’t understand.
Once we help you setup your online accounts you will immediately realize the time and cost savings. Plus the added bonus of knowing the bills you pay and the item requested was processed accurately, with an immediate audit trail to ensure the transaction.
Your
kids need the computer as much as you if not more.
Do not expect them to share one pencil with you and their brothers and
sisters. Give them the primary tool for education or you are going to put them
at a disadvantage in the classroom. The
cost of a PC for your child’s education is a small price to pay for such a
huge leg up towards success. Not
just in the access to educational material made available, but within the use of
the PC itself, which will continue to be a part of his or her every day life.
One
PC just doesn’t cut it for a family. It’s
worse than sharing one bathroom but a lot cheaper to add on.
A top shelf robust PC and all the networking components and services to
make it all work will allow your family to share the printer, the internet
connection and many other things, giving you control over exactly what
information can and cannot be accessed by your children, all for less than the
money you will likely spend on useless holiday gifts like the ones you bought
last year. This time you will be
able to remember what they were.
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