Taken from PC World Magazine, March 2011 Edition

It’s tough raising parents these days.  Take it from me: My retired mom and dad are brilliant people, but they just can’t get the hang of copying and pasting.

Apparently they’re not the only ones, as evidenced by Google’s unofficial new Teach Parents Tech site (teachparentstech.org). It’s designed expressly for folks who want to help their parents (or anyone for that matter) learn computer basics.

All you do is complete an amusingly tongue-in-cheek form, the bulk of which involves choosing how-to-videos that you want to send to Mom and/or Dad (or other people in your life).  The site offers a few dozen choices, with topics ranging from ‘Copy & Paste’ to ‘Make a Blog’ to ‘Attach a File to an Email’.

Once you’ve completed the form, you can preview your “tech support care package” before sending it.  Teach Parents Tech is really ingenious.  I doff my hat to the “few folks at Google” who came up with the idea.