is it just my 2 year old....

kingfisherblue

clays_mummy wrote: »

lol wow im sure some of you people think i let my son have the ipod 24/7 and dont let him paint/play/go kids clubs etc etc lol....when i was a kid (im 28) then yeah, we had smaller tvs and not many gadgets but this is 2012 and its what life is like now and i personally think that the ipod is ok for him to use...alphabet, sign language apps etc...and he knows exactly what hes looking for on youtube, normally phonics, alphabet, numbers or he started yesterday on his months.

every mother is biased of course, but my son is very clever for his age...last week the health visitor told me that in 34 years of her career, she had never heard a 26 month old say his full alphabet....by the time they get to secondary school, and using ipads and not desktop computers anymore...some of our children will be able to learn the subject that they are there for whether some of the more "ana1" mums' kids will be trying to work out the ipad lol

I don't think I am anal - just wary of introducing too much technology at too young an age. I am also able to use punctuation and grammar correctly

MX5huggy

My 2 year old loves the iPad and works his way through several apps by himself and gets to you tube particularly liking Circle of Life vid, and anything with diggers or helicopters. Luckily he thinks it's called Frog as his favourite app is Tap the Frog.

The problem is that he is likely to have a full melt down paddy when iPad time is up, just like we do when it time to leave the park, get out of the bath, leave nursey, or denied a third dry cream cracker. So he's not seen it for about 12 weeks.

Bitsy_Beans

Ravenlady wrote: »

You actually let a 2 year old play with an ipad?

Brave springs to mind.

My 3 year old plays with mine mind you she's not unsupervised and she always sits down. She's a whizz at temple run!

I find YouTube a nightmare, one night we were trying to find a Dora clip and clicked on one.....which it turns out what dubbed so Dora's first words consisted of "hola motherf*****s" :eek::eek: wish YouTube came with a rating system. I managed to avoid the Dora like heroin thanks to the title :rotfl:

And before people jump all over me time on the iPad is restricted, DD can count to 20, knows her alphabet and does all the things a kids her age should. But she likes some of the games on the iPad. As long as its restricted I don't see the problem, she actually loves the spelling apps

clays_mummy

very well done for your good spelling kingfisherblue

stroodes

Good spelling is good, what's an I Pod?

stroodes

hubby has just told me it is not an I pod, same thing just cleverer.

bylromarha

clays_mummy wrote: »

lol wow im sure some of you people think i let my son have the ipod 24/7 and dont let him paint/play/go kids clubs etc etc lol....when i was a kid (im 28) then yeah, we had smaller tvs and not many gadgets but this is 2012 and its what life is like now and i personally think that the ipod is ok for him to use...alphabet, sign language apps etc...and he knows exactly what hes looking for on youtube, normally phonics, alphabet, numbers or he started yesterday on his months.

every mother is biased of course, but my son is very clever for his age...last week the health visitor told me that in 34 years of her career, she had never heard a 26 month old say his full alphabet....by the time they get to secondary school, and using ipads and not desktop computers anymore...some of our children will be able to learn the subject that they are there for whether some of the more "ana1" mums' kids will be trying to work out the ipad lol

It seems you've missed the point.

No one is saying never, but if your child can log in, access and find the things they like on you tube then they are having far too much unsupervised access.

Children can benefit from small amounts of screen time - if you're learning sounds then paper, talking, screens, CDs are all good to throw into the mix, but too much on screens is not good for childrens' developing brains.

And having taught Reception kids you can tell those who have been on a screen too much - they're the ones who need constant amusing and adult guidance in their play, they're the ones who can't sit still for a whole class story as it isn't all singing and dancing, they're the ones who look look at the construction area and walk away yelling "boring"

And as for the health visitors comment, put it alongside the fact that a lot of children same age as yours can sing a variety of nursery rhymes - it's all repetative stuff which they hear again and again and again. If your child is finding the alphabet online to listen to again and again and again, of course they'll know it to repeat. I can post a video for you of my then 2 year old "reading" Hungry Caterpillar - not reading, just reciting as he knew it so well.

BTW, by the time yours gets to secondary school, my guess is that Ipads wil also be outdated technology Our primary school had its first interactive screen in 2000, long before touch screen technology reached the masses.

Try having a fortnight with DS with no screen time at all, no TV, no youtube, no ipod, nothing with a light up screen - see what happens.

MX5huggy

bylromarha wrote: »

BTW, by the time yours gets to secondary school, my guess is that Ipads wil also be outdated technology Our primary school had its first interactive screen in 2000, long before touch screen technology reached the masses.

Good gracious your school is slow on getting IT then my rural primary school that I attended with 19 pupils had a BBC B + with a touch screen some time around 1988.

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bylromarha

MX5huggy wrote: »

Good gracious your school is slow on getting IT then my rural primary school that I attended with 19 pupils had a BBC B + with a touch screen some time around 1988.

Blimey. Never heard of one of those! :rotfl: