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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My point is you luddite dinosaurs act like its ALL Angry Birds and brain rotting games.  Reality is, its not just a new fangled electronic nanny.  It can be a tool for enrichment as well as fun.  And you dont have to spend a ton of money on a tablet either.   Mini droid tablets start at $199 new.[/quote]

I'm a former middle school school teacher, currently tutoring children in upper elementary and middle grades.  I'm also the parent of 3 kids in their teen and college years.  There are definitely wonderful, enriching ways to use an ipad, but the reality is that most young kids end up playing a lot of Angry Birds.  In my experience, electronics are significantly affecting kids' ability to concentrate, entertain themselves and tap into their imagination and creativity.  Finally, do you really think it makes sense to give a kid a $200 present?

sign me -- a happy Luddite dinasaur[/quote]

So don't download Angry Birds.  If people have the means to give their child/grandchild a $200 gift then good on them.  My kids share my Nook Tablet after I found I preferred my phone as it can do everything my NT does AND makes calls.  There's no Angry Birds on it because *gasp* [i]I'm the one who puts all the applications on it and I monitor how much time they spend playing with it and what they do while on it[/i].  You seem to think that tablets come preloaded with junk programs which are impossible to get rid of.  That's not true.  Even if it did come with things you don't want your special snowflake to be exposed to, it takes less than a minute to download an uninstaller from the app store.

I won't pretend like there are no fluff games but they're for after we finish working on say, DD's addition and subtraction apps or long car rides.  [/quote]

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