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Future Geeks

A local dad teaches off-screen skills

by James Leonard

posted 2/13/2011

"We are all having increasingly geeky kids," says Dave Nelson, stay-at-home dad of four-year-old Otto Sam. But for all the kids' skill at video games, Nelson says, those are "insular activities—and sometimes it seems like the only way parents can interact with them is in front of a screen."

 
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