Understanding the difficulties of raising a young perl coder, should we see about easing the burden?

I'm more than willing to help out by sending diapers, formula, or even O'Reilly books to the mother and her little camel. Does anyone think this is appropriate? I know how much trouble my brother and his wife had, and I don't wish that on anyone. Let me know if I'm way off base. Just trying to help.

Also, if anyone wants to help me work on a perl book for kids ("My first Perl book"), let me know. I'm toying with the idea. 

J. J. Horner
Linux, Perl, Apache, Stronghold, Unix
jhorner@knoxlug.org http://www.knoxlug.org/

In reply to Understanding the difficulties of raising a young perl coder... by jjhorner

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