Tablets and smartphones. The new babysitters? You're doing a disservice to your children if so.
1 posted on
12/28/2013 10:45:05 AM PST by
upchuck
To: upchuck
>>You’re doing a disservice to your children if so. <<
Because Playstations and laptops were so successful in child-rearing.
2 posted on
12/28/2013 10:46:58 AM PST by
freedumb2003
(Fight Tapinophobia in all its forms! Do not submit to arduus privilege.)
To: upchuck
I remember “tablet” was a common synonym for “pill”. The pharmaceutical industry still uses the term, too.
3 posted on
12/28/2013 10:47:55 AM PST by
Olog-hai
To: upchuck
Damn those tablets! They've been a nuisance for thousands of years!
To: upchuck
...but experts worry... What would we ever do without experts?
5 posted on
12/28/2013 10:56:17 AM PST by
DoughtyOne
(ZERO is still zero!)
To: upchuck
iPads are wonderful potty training tools, and with Netflix my kids can watch old cartoons. I can’t stand “learning” cartoons that dominate TV.
10 posted on
12/28/2013 11:08:35 AM PST by
goodwithagun
(My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
To: upchuck
“even a 3-year-old can master them”
correction
even some 3 year old can learn how to use them adequately enough to amaze the adults who never bothered to learn how to use one.
11 posted on
12/28/2013 11:29:00 AM PST by
I want the USA back
(Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
To: upchuck
Tablets are for information “consumers”.
14 posted on
12/28/2013 11:38:04 AM PST by
The Duke
("Forgiveness is between them and God, it's my job to arrange the meeting.")
To: upchuck
Well, I was concerned about tablet use, but now that the experts have weighed in, I feel much better about letting my children have one. LOL
Most things in life are simple: all things in moderation.
To: upchuck
My then-3yo was learning algebra and programming with one. It’s not the tool, it’s what you do with it.
19 posted on
12/28/2013 12:21:16 PM PST by
ctdonath2
(Making good people helpless doesn't make bad people harmless.)
To: upchuck
And that has some pediatricians and other health experts worried. It should have teachers unions worried. :)
21 posted on
12/28/2013 12:37:17 PM PST by
Mr. Jeeves
(CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
To: upchuck
My three youngest children learned to read using my iPad. We bought cheap tablets last year for Christmas for them to share. They broke one, almost broke a second, and have been banned from using them since. They really are not a child’s toy. A nice educational, tool, though.
To: upchuck; All
Give your babies and grandbabies wooden blocks to play with now and by highschool they will be outcreating the other 99%. Make makers.
28 posted on
12/28/2013 3:24:50 PM PST by
Rodamala
To: upchuck
Probably, government licensed experts.
34 posted on
12/28/2013 6:49:12 PM PST by
depressed in 06
(America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
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