When I was a child we mainly played with non-electronic toys like dolls. This was mainly because my family already had a lot of older toys from the previous gen

When I was a child we mainly played with non-electronic toys like dolls. This was mainly because my family already had a lot of older toys from the previous generation, not because electronic toys were unavailable to us. Children grow especially attached to dolls, of course, and in many cases they cannot be easily replaced when they break. I remember that sometimes we would take damaged dolls to the "doll doctor", a skilled woman that ran a doll repair business at her home. She could repair doll clothing, fix scratches or broken limbs, replace missing eyes, and more. The doll's return was like a dear friend coming home from the hospital. Some commentators here miss that the iPad may be today's equivalent of a child's doll. Not being able to replace the iPad is like telling the child their playtime friend is dead and never coming back. This strikes me as good reason to have your children bond to something easily replaceable... and consider buying a backup!