Ds doesn't like his tablet

pesky85

OP I will give you some helpful advice from experience (which seemingly a lot of people commenting on this post are lacking?).

On that subject....why do people bother to comment on posts when they have nothing helpful to say? If you were to do your research you would find that we are now out of the dark ages; and there is a lot of pre-school, age appropriate, electronic technology.

My son is 3.5 and I got him a LeapPad 2 for xmas (shock horror, he must be completely deprived of any normal play! He must also have rickets as a consequence of never being out in the sunlight...). It is brilliant! You can track their learning journey via a portal on your laptop / PC. All the games and apps are educational and age appropriate, and easy for them to use. It grows with them, you can download progressively more difficult apps. There is a camera and video camera too, and drawing apps etc. Plenty to keep them busy on a flight! Only problem is the battery life - get rechargeable batteries and carry spares!!

My son doesn't play his every day, he plays for about 40 mins 3 times a week or so. Since playing with this he has mastered writing every letter of the alphabet and rhyming words. Yes, he could do the same with pen and paper, blah blah blah. My point is, don't knock things you have absolutely no experience of. It's lucrative!!

Good luck OP

Ashley_K

I bought for my 6 years old daughter a tablet ( from xphones4all ) and she was so excited. She loves it and she`d play non stop ( if i`d let her )

Okydoky25

I will prob get jumped on for saying this but we bought by 21m DS a Leappad Leapfrog (very MSE tho bought 3for2 and sold 2:) anyway I bought it as he is very good on my iPad. Plays lots of games he is so good at them I'm amazed but wanted use of my iPad back and thought the Leappad was more age appropriate... He hates it and to be honest I don't blame him the games are rubbish and very expensive compared to apple Apps.

LiveLoveLaugh

We bought our 5 yr old son a cheap tablet for Xmas, (Bad parents ), his older sister got a kindle fire a few months earlier and he would just want to watch or play on hers whenever she used it so we decided to get him one.

We looked at the Leap Pad and the Innotab but thought that they are pretty restricted with what you can get on them, not to mention expensive and there are many educational apps that you can get on a tablet which providing it lasts you can change to more age appropriate apps as they grow, also the tablet was actually cheaper than the Leap Pad too.

Yes if we let him he would want to play on his tablet all day, just as if we let him he would want to watch TV all day, however as long as you don't let them sit on them all day and give them restrictions (ours is an hour, and not everyday) then I see no problem with him having a tablet (same goes for the 3 yr old).

To be honest I think all of you having a go at the OP obviously aren't up to speed with the reality of things these days, they are using technology more and more at schools (starting at nursery age) now and whilst I don't like the idea of my child sitting indoors all the time playing on his technology, I'm confident that as long as we monitor things properly he won't be doing so.

Regarding your original question OP, I suppose it will just be trial and error finding the apps he likes, my son is a bit older so I probably can't advise much but I don't only allow him to have educational apps on there, he likes the silly games too like talking tom, and like someone said maybe pay for a couple of apps, the paid one's are usually better and not always too expensive or set up a link to the Cbeebies website or something so he can access their games?

Oh and just for the record my son has a DS, a Wii & a tablet but he did play in the snow and went sledging, he does own and PLAY with Lego too and he also owns shed loads of books he likes to read.....he is also doing extremely well in both maths and literacy at school, so maybe we aren't such bad parents after all!

LiveLoveLaugh

pesky85 wrote: »

My son doesn't play his every day, he plays for about 40 mins 3 times a week or so. Since playing with this he has mastered writing every letter of the alphabet and rhyming words. Yes, he could do the same with pen and paper, blah blah blah. My point is, don't knock things you have absolutely no experience of. It's lucrative!!

Good luck OP

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LiveLoveLaugh

Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »

I'm sure the in flight entertainment cartoons will be fine for him.

Not always, we recently went on a long haul flight, plenty of entertainment for adults, moderate for my 5 yr old, nothing that entertained my 18mth old and nothing that would have entertained them when they were 3 either.

Are you sure you can't put your own movies on OP, I recently realised that I can convert the file on the computer and then add it on to the tablet.

jayII

Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »

Posting on old threads to have a go at someone else - is a bit sad.

Posting on old threads to give us the benefit of your wisdom because it's essential that the OP knows something important - not so bad.

So perhaps you could post some wisdom instead of having a pop?

You're right. I owe you an apology for this. I got annoyed at a couple of your posts and decided to behave like an idiot. Sorry.

Robin_TBW

You bought a three and five year old an Android tablet? What's wrong with you...

alwaysbrassic

Robin_TBW wrote: »

You bought a three and five year old an Android tablet? What's wrong with you...

Ooh where to start?
I need to loose about 2 stone, I'm a little bit bored in my job, my car needs new brakes to go through the mot, and I didn't sleep very well last night.
Other than that there isn't much wrong with me, thanks for your concern!:)

pesky85

alwaysbrassic wrote: »

Ooh where to start?
I need to loose about 2 stone, I'm a little bit bored in my job, my car needs new brakes to go through the mot, and I didn't sleep very well last night.
Other than that there isn't much wrong with me, thanks for your concern!:)

Brilliant :rotfl: