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The adult product usually is the right one for kids. Most 'for kids' products aren't actually easier to use, and suck to administer (which falls on the parents.
by tlb 9y ago
The adult product usually is the right one for kids. Most 'for kids' products aren't actually easier to use, and suck to administer (which falls on the parents.)
The problem is, if you send your kid to school with the latest iPhone, it gets jealous reactions from other kids.
Also, an expensive phone creates cognitive dissonance WRT allowances. My youngest gets $1.50/wk, which she budgets carefully to buy craft supplies. If I also get her a new $800 phone, the numbers seem out of whack. I can't give her a comparable number for allowance, because our house would overflow and she wouldn't learn to budget. So we give her our old ones when we upgrade.
It's a shame, because (as you say) younger people probably get more benefit from better tech.
- dTal 9y ago"Better" isn't always "more expensive" or even "more performance". The best computer anyone ever gave me as a kid was a TI-83+ - it did far more to stimulate my interest in computers and mathematics than an iPhone ever could have. It's true what you say about "for kids" products, but really an iPhone is a "for kids" product. It's a computer with a dumbed-down interface, limited functionality, and a walled garden of "apps" - like those old Leapfrog laptops. If you want to give them sophisticated tools, give them sophisticated tools.