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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With all the data out there it is hard to believe people want to buy these for young kids.[/quote]

I've never seen any data about tablets for young kids in the limited circumstances of long car rides. Maybe some parents find that limitation difficult to enforce, but we haven't. Our kid has had a tablet since she was two. In the past 12 months, she's used it seven days total, which is average for a year. I don't think there's any data that indicates that has harmed her.[/quote]

It seems wasteful to buy a special iPad for a preschooler that she uses 7 days a year. We limit screen time for our kid and specifically don't allow her ot use handheld screens because we think they are more addictive. But we do allow her to watch TV or a movie on a tablet on plane trips or very occasionally at a hotel room on vacation. We just use my DH's iPad or my laptop for this.

Also I don't have to see studies to believe that handheld screens and excessive screens generally are bad for you because I am a person who has seen screen addiction and decreased attention span and weakened social and coping skills *in myself* due to screen use. So I don't want to do that to my kid especially not starting at age 2.[/quote]

You're not making any sense. On the one hand, you claim that you don't allow handheld screens, but then in the next sentence, you explain that your kid DOES use a tablet, it just belongs to someone else. We don't have any other tablets in the house, so our solution is a cheap tablet for our kid for long trips. We're doing the same thing, but somehow you're being sanctimonious about it.

You're also projecting your own (mis)use of screens onto other people. Our daughter's tablet is used to watch TV. That's it. It's "handheld" because she's in the backseat of a car, but it's just TV and movies. Is watching a full day of TV a few times a year ideal? Probably not. Is it decreasing anyone's social skills? Don't be silly. That's might be an effect of constant use of smartphones, but it's not an effect of watching cartoons on a car ride.[/quote]

+1 exact same reaction to that PP

We actually don't have any other random tablets or iPads lying around the house. We adults don't use them.[/quote]

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