by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-11-10 13:51:30+00:00
Sorry as I may have somethings which I have written in other comments as well so sorry if its repetitive but let me give you a direct response.

I have thought about it and personally the only way i find is to actually educate them that there are options, free and open source options and what it means and trying to generate an intution for them

It was always fun and still is to try to find open source alternatives to X or Y thing

As someone who actually went against the tides in the way and installed linux myself and did things myself.

I feel like I was just inspired by my brother who flexed one day hard on me using archlinux(although in vm), that was the reason why I had decided to use archlinux (love arch, using cachy based on arch rn) but my reason was to "prove" to him.

I don't think his intention was to setup my linux computer or to even teach me. I learnt everything myself at a young age and that does make me proud (I think)

I am speaking this as an actual teen who installed arch I think when I was 15 but try to influence how they think about the world or induce curiosity in them. I was always a power user even when I was on android once running partially because of piracy and emulations

And even that piracy learning was from my brother. Him and my uncle were doing things and I wanted to play a game and download it from net but I didn't know how and he just said to search it + download or something basic on internet and that was it, I then figured it out myself but I think I was literally 8 or something and I was proud of it and I prided myself on becoming a technical user and trying to do some technical milestones or anything I found interesting

It has become a part of my identity to associate myself with someone technical. I feel like I can do a lot of things, I can "figure things out" when others might give up at an identity level.

I am not sure how you might be able to do it, my identity had formed on trying to prove someone with higher authority (I mean big bro's respect still means a little) almost in a rebelling manner

I wanted to up my brother, show that I am more superior to him in tech and now its funny because my brother and cousin comes to me and they say I am a nerd when my brother is a software engineer himself. I try to take it as a compliment though.

I don't know how you can replicate it but I think a way for parenting to make it is to try to just give them ideas themselves and when they think that its their ideas, give them crazy feedback loop and show them rewards and even think of respecting them in a way if they show interests.

Its more like the aristotle's quote iirc, you can teach nobody, the only person who can teach someone is themselves or something similar

I think this idea of letting someone convince it was their idea goes bigger than parenting. The book I had came to learn about it was from how to win friends and influence people which was from my cousin who had gotten into a very decent college and so people around me were saying his life was set so i tried to get him to respect me etc. by listening to him or if he gave me a book to read, then I would be emotionally invested in reading it at a young age etc.

He once taught me about assets, liabilities cash flow at a really young age. So I think I got very familiar with both finances and technology in my life.

Maybe young-bro big-bro dynamic is different from a kid - parent dynamic but I was the youngest in my families but I am just honestly telling my story in case if it helps anyone

If you have any questions, please let me know. I would love to answer.