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Excuse me, I hadn't realized that people would contemplate letting five year olds play unsupervised with tablets...
by bayesianhorse 13y ago
Excuse me, I hadn't realized that people would contemplate letting five year olds play unsupervised with tablets...
- freehunter 13y agoWhen I got my Nexus 4, I let my brother in law play with it while I went into the other room. When I came back, he was gone to the bathroom and my 18 month old niece was playing with my brand new $350 all-glass smartphone on my mom's hardwood floors. It does happen.
- ctdonath 13y agoMy daughter's second word was "iPad". Five years later five iP*s have survived two kids nicely. Sometimes it's not so much a matter of letting kids, but managing the fact that they will.
- ctdonath 13y agoShoulda kept my mouth shut. Day after writing that, the boy smashed the iPad Mini in a snit. $200 lesson for daddy.
- bmelton 13y agoMy daughter's had relatively unfettered access to a tablet since she was four. She got her first laptop when she was 8. She just turned twelve, and just built a pretty fun slot machine game in Ruby. I think I understand your point, and yes, we've been mindful of her activities and all that, but I think the converse is equally detrimental to a growing child's development.
- cpeterso 13y ago"2-in-1 iPotty with Activity Seat for iPad: A comfortable and child-friendly potty with activity stand for iPad." http://amzn.com/B00B3G8UGQ http://amzn.com/B00B3G8UGQ
- nakedrobot2 13y agoMy kids get ~30 mins per day (total, split between them) on the ipad. Maybe longer on exceptional occasions.