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>>Philly.NET used to run a session "Kids that code" where members brought their kids to show off what they'd done. Most were games and they were pretty good.
>>My grandson really wants to be another Warren Buffet and he plans to use computers to get to that goal.
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>I actually knew about that, and I used to take Katy to the Philly .NET/SQL events.
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>If I were to take steps towards helping her, I'd start with understanding data in parallel with the coding side of things.
>If she's truly serious, I have no choice but to help her. But I seriously hope she finds another direction.
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>Years ago, I got invited (by a woman) to participate in a "Women in Technology" session at a SQL Saturday event in Philly.
>I was one of five panel members (3 women, 2 men). The other man, for reasons I'll never understand, was a royal jackass who said that men are going to perform better in pressure I.T. situations because of genetics. (I kid you not, and there was a large room of attendees).
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>But I learned some things that day I didn't expect to learn: how some of my very actions in trying to "get ahead" have made it difficult for others, beyond just the notion of general competition. A friend of mine who attended asked me a pointed question during the panel discussion, and I had no choice but to realize, "Holy crap, he's right". It was the first time I realized that the, "I do what I do for my daughter to have the best life possible", isn't as clean-cut as I thought. It doesn't mean I'm going to change one thing about how I make a living, but I've seen now that things I've done , things I never thought would impact others down the line, have probably contributed in some small way. There's no way I can explain that to my daughter, so all I can do is hope she goes into something else. I don't want her anywhere near this industry.
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>(Yeah, I'm getting weird in my 58th year on this planet)

When my daughter graduated from Villanova (with honors) I was running the systems department at a Wall Street brokerage house. A buddy was doing the same thing at Morgan Stanley. His son was also graduating. We made a deal. I'd hire his and vice versa. Unfortunately, his guy was a stiff, but in a year my daughter was managing a department of 20 people and shoveling in money (which she still has, I'm happy to say- she learned how to handle money there.)
She retired early, learned VFP, came in with me and we rode the Y2K wave together. She still handles a few clients but prefers rescuing greyhounds with her husband, buying nice clothes, doting on her family, and finding nice places to eat.

Let her blossom, Kevin.
Sit back and enjoy it.