Re:A Dad’s Plea To Developers Of iPad Apps For Children
by squidfood on Monday March 12, 2012 @12:04PM
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It's very different from TV. Anecdotal, but:
My two-year old loves to push buttons. Remote controls, toys, any buttons with some feedback (and many without) are fair game. On iPad/iPhone, spends as much time on any typing app watching letters appear as he does on a game (only tried a game or two). Trickiest bit really is getting him out of whatever menu he wanders into - author was dead-on there.
TV he'll watch for 10-15 minutes and wander/play with something else, sometimes glancing up when something catches his attention.
I'm with you that with either device these are doses of 15-20 minutes not "babysitting." But "at all" is extreme.
My two-year old loves to push buttons. Remote controls, toys, any buttons with some feedback (and many without) are fair game. On iPad/iPhone, spends as much time on any typing app watching letters appear as he does on a game (only tried a game or two). Trickiest bit really is getting him out of whatever menu he wanders into - author was dead-on there.
TV he'll watch for 10-15 minutes and wander/play with something else, sometimes glancing up when something catches his attention.
I'm with you that with either device these are doses of 15-20 minutes not "babysitting." But "at all" is extreme.