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I'll have to try that experiment with my 15 month old. He's spent a lot of time on the keyboard, and he and I played with the sampler, but I didn't have him tr
by pohl 16y ago
I'll have to try that experiment with my 15 month old. He's spent a lot of time on the keyboard, and he and I played with the sampler, but I didn't have him try the drums.
I didn't notice any lag, but maybe that's because my son can't stop himself from making the app go away: the home button is too irresistible. Someone needs to come out with a slip case that makes the home button unreachable.
- cloudbrain 16y agoI would buy that in a heartbeat. My two year old loves too watch movies and look at pictures on the iPad but can't help herself from pushing the Home button. The iPad would be great for car trips with the right case - and the home button is the biggest issue. Something tells me there is a big market for kid-friendly iPad accessories...
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- iron_ball 16y agoMaybe I'm overestimating the learning capacity of two-year-olds, but isn't that something you'd learn after a few times?
- wiredfool 16y agoOh, but buttons are fun. Especially ones that you push and things happen. The home screen is fun. The search screen is fun. (and the big grey button on the ups in daddy's office is fun too. makes beeping noises.) There should be a way to enable kid mode, and use the switch to disable the home button for a while. At least till he figured that out.
- gallamine 16y agoNo, actually. Here's my son's (17 months) usage pattern: 1: Open app. 2: Watch app for 3 seconds. 3: Close app. 4: Goto 1
- kalendae 16y agoyou just need to not get involved they will figure it out eventually. I am not sure at which point my son started to use the home button properly but it definitely happened without our intervention in the last 6 months or so (he also started playing around with it at 2). I am worried that the ipad is bad for things like learning delayed gratification and attention span, as when he is watching dora he will let it finish but otherwise the smallest frustration leads to hitting home and starting over.
- cstuder 16y agoYou could tape over the button and at the same time put the iPad into developer mode. Then you can use gestures to go back to the home menu. How-To: http://www.tuaw.com/2011/03/13/want-new-gesture-controls-in-ios-4-3-on-your-ipad-heres-how/3 http://www.tuaw.com/2011/03/13/want-new-gesture-controls-in-...