Phone given to a six year old?

onlyroz wrote: »

Or listen to music, the radio or podcasts.

Or to take photographs.

Or to learn another language (Duolingo is excellent, and my daughter has been using Google Translate to speak to me in Spanish).

My also daughter uses hers as the controller for her Just Dance game on the PS4.

..aged 6???

onlyroz wrote: »

My daughter is 9. She has certainly been listening to music, taking photographs and playing dance games since she was 6. Learning languages is a more recent thing.


I was simply trying to highlight some of the reasons why a child might want to use a smart device like an iPod or phone. Not all activities are as brain-rotting as some people on this thread seem to be suggesting.

I'm gobsmacked anyone would let a small child have an iphone or tablet. It's far too young, imo, though whether it's any worse than just dumping them in front of the tv for hours on end is probably a moot point.

What really takes the biscuit is stuff like this
https://www.amazon.com/CTA-Digital-iPotty-Activity-Seat/dp/B00B3G8UGQ
I mean, how irresponsible and clueless would you have to be to give that to a toddler!! And they wonder why our kids have screen addiction and mental health issues..

fibonarchie wrote: »

I'm gobsmacked anyone would let a small child have an iphone or tablet. It's far too young, imo, though whether it's any worse than just dumping them in front of the tv for hours on end is probably a moot point.

What really takes the biscuit is stuff like this
https://www.amazon.com/CTA-Digital-iPotty-Activity-Seat/dp/B00B3G8UGQ
I mean, how irresponsible and clueless would you have to be to give that to a toddler!! And they wonder why our kids have screen addiction and mental health issues..

You are gobsmacked at a 6-year-old listening to music or learning about photography? Really? What about apps that help teach times tables?

onlyroz wrote: »

You are gobsmacked at a 6-year-old listening to music or learning about photography? Really? What about apps that help teach times tables?

glentoran99 wrote: »

and letters, colours, numbers, shapes, nursery rhymes,

My daughter has been able to count and recognise numbers up to 20 since she was 2,

Sorry, but :rotfl::rotfl:

Is there anything people can do these days without having to resort to a computer to assist them..

We were taught letters, numbers, nursery rhymes by people. You know.. living breathing human beings. That's something kids are lacking now, as harried parents are plonking them down in front of a tablet computer while they get on with other (presumably more important) things.

Computers have enabled the terminally stupid to become even more dysfunctional, in many ways.

fibonarchie wrote: »

Is there anything people can do these days without having to resort to a computer to assist them..

We were taught letters, numbers, nursery rhymes by people. You know.. living breathing human beings.

When a computer is used to assist learning, what's the issue?

We used to learn by making letters in a sandtray, then with chalk on a slate, then with a pencil on paper, later on using pens.

Now we use an electronic device as part of the learning process.

I remember the outcry when our school decided to allow the use of biros instead of fountain pens - some adults thought that was clear evidence of the decline in civilisation!