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> But we soon noticed that when we would take the iPhone back, he would have a very violent negative reaction Have you noticed this same reaction elsewhere? I

> But we soon noticed that when we would take the iPhone back, he would have a very violent negative reaction Have you noticed this same reaction elsewhere? It sounds a lot like the one that happens when it's time to stop playing run-around-the-house-with-the-cowbell and get ready for bed. It's sort of a normal 2 year old reaction to the super-fun thing stopping. Sometimes I think his worst childhood memory will be that time he had to get off the tractor. I wouldn't let it color your opinion of any particular toy. Lego would certainly be next on the list!

veidr 11y ago
Of course all little kids get upset sometimes. What I am saying is that we felt a qualitative/fundamental difference in those kinds of negative reactions, and the frequency of that kind of reaction, when the iPhone/iPad was involved as compared to say, blocks or legos or Brio trains. We have never seen our own very young child (or his playmates) have the degree of adverse reaction to stopping legos as they do with electronics. And we have never seen them work themselves into the same kind of a fit playing with blocks -- that usually just kind of peters out when they get bored, and they don't end up stacking and stacking and stacking and stacking blocks until they are half-hysterical. I think for a five-year-old, the iPad might well be the same as any other toy in that way. But I don't think so in the case of two-year-olds (at least, not with the dozens of two-year-olds I know).