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what apps have worked well for you in this way ? Im a new parent and want to get thoughts on what helped the child's development and what didnt. for e.g. do yo

what apps have worked well for you in this way ? Im a new parent and want to get thoughts on what helped the child's development and what didnt. for e.g. do you play sesame street, etc type content on the ipad ?

IG_Semmelweiss 3y ago
we didn't allow anything until the kids got sick and needed nebulizer. Its impossible to keep a 2.5 yr old straight for 15mins with a mask in the face , breathing. In those tough times: 1) Baby Einsten videos. Young ones love them! 2) the equivalent of Mr. Rogers, but in a foreign language that we speak at home. We mostly allow 10min-45min of screen time, but carefully orchestated around learning. No english TV is allowed unless its directly related to complex learning (as in, physics etc). Since during sickness the "cat was out of the bag" with respect to what the TV does , then we allowed a bit of YT. I prefer immersion, for example:At 4yrs old we brought in khan academy (Kids), scratch, or math maze 2 (put together by another HNer, yay!) https://gogamewise.com/games/math-maze-2/ https://gogamewise.com/games/math-maze-2/ The latter allowed our 5 yr old to do heavy multiplication and fractions. Our 7yr old is already putting together complex multi-sprite projects on scratch. Our go-to has been Chesskid and Khan AcademyKids, but they will be graduating from Khan Kids soon, so we will see. We don't allow youtube except for a few obscure shows with no violence, plus 3 popular ones: Blippi, PawPatrol, Octonauts. We only allow watching in foreign languages. We tried cosmos and kurtgesagt but the shows go too deep into existential questions and caused anxiety in children. That was a big mistake.
- esafak 3y ago
  You probably know but there is an animated series based on Mr. Rogers, available in streaming dubbed and translated into many languages, called Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood. https://www.pbs.org/parents/shows/daniel https://www.pbs.org/parents/shows/daniel
- sandGorgon 3y ago
  this WAS super useful! thank you so much. I would love to follow a running list of your recommendations for different age groups (if u maintain one). One question - when u say "allow watching in foreign languages".do u mean watch in ur native non-english language...or any language where the kid cannot understand spoken and just sees the visuals ?
  - IG_Semmelweiss 3y ago
    my wife and I speak 3 languages. So we put shows from YT dubbed in the 2 non english languages. We also have a hard rule at home to only speak to our kids in those languages. We don't respond to words in english. Its worked well so far, particularly with COVID travel, but it gets progressively harder. If we spoke only 1, i'd seriously consider putting shows only in a foreign language of your choice. we haven't done that since they are working on native fluency on the 3 that we speak.
    - sandGorgon 3y ago
      well im Indian - so i speak 6 languages :D I've constantly worried about how to get the kid to learn the non-mainstream language. Now i get it!
      - IG_Semmelweiss 3y ago
        Didn't mention, but start as early as possible. once kids are older, they will resist any sudden attempt at non-english. Also, don't worry about "speech development" (i.e late talking). Your kids may be slightly behind peers in speech, but they will catch up by age 2-3. Kids are like sponges, they learn everything quickly.

IG_Semmelweiss 3y ago

we didn't allow anything until the kids got sick and needed nebulizer. Its impossible to keep a 2.5 yr old straight for 15mins with a mask in the face , breathing. In those tough times: 1) Baby Einsten videos. Young ones love them! 2) the equivalent of Mr. Rogers, but in a foreign language that we speak at home. We mostly allow 10min-45min of screen time, but carefully orchestated around learning. No english TV is allowed unless its directly related to complex learning (as in, physics etc). Since during sickness the "cat was out of the bag" with respect to what the TV does , then we allowed a bit of YT. I prefer immersion, for example:At 4yrs old we brought in khan academy (Kids), scratch, or math maze 2 (put together by another HNer, yay!) https://gogamewise.com/games/math-maze-2/ https://gogamewise.com/games/math-maze-2/ The latter allowed our 5 yr old to do heavy multiplication and fractions. Our 7yr old is already putting together complex multi-sprite projects on scratch. Our go-to has been Chesskid and Khan AcademyKids, but they will be graduating from Khan Kids soon, so we will see. We don't allow youtube except for a few obscure shows with no violence, plus 3 popular ones: Blippi, PawPatrol, Octonauts. We only allow watching in foreign languages. We tried cosmos and kurtgesagt but the shows go too deep into existential questions and caused anxiety in children. That was a big mistake.

esafak 3y ago
You probably know but there is an animated series based on Mr. Rogers, available in streaming dubbed and translated into many languages, called Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood. https://www.pbs.org/parents/shows/daniel https://www.pbs.org/parents/shows/daniel
sandGorgon 3y ago
this WAS super useful! thank you so much. I would love to follow a running list of your recommendations for different age groups (if u maintain one). One question - when u say "allow watching in foreign languages".do u mean watch in ur native non-english language...or any language where the kid cannot understand spoken and just sees the visuals ?
- IG_Semmelweiss 3y ago
  my wife and I speak 3 languages. So we put shows from YT dubbed in the 2 non english languages. We also have a hard rule at home to only speak to our kids in those languages. We don't respond to words in english. Its worked well so far, particularly with COVID travel, but it gets progressively harder. If we spoke only 1, i'd seriously consider putting shows only in a foreign language of your choice. we haven't done that since they are working on native fluency on the 3 that we speak.
  - sandGorgon 3y ago
    well im Indian - so i speak 6 languages :D I've constantly worried about how to get the kid to learn the non-mainstream language. Now i get it!
    - IG_Semmelweiss 3y ago
      Didn't mention, but start as early as possible. once kids are older, they will resist any sudden attempt at non-english. Also, don't worry about "speech development" (i.e late talking). Your kids may be slightly behind peers in speech, but they will catch up by age 2-3. Kids are like sponges, they learn everything quickly.