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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh my. There are still people out there who seriously think a 5 year old needs to start learning about technology. The technology he will be exposed to and needing to deal with when he is 20 is a completely different one, than the one that is around today. No child needs to know how an iPad works at age 5. Honestly...are any of you aware that there are 1-2 year olds who can handle an iPad? What does that tell you about how hard it is or how long it would take someone to pick it up if they never did it before? Really!?

Children have no need for technology. You try to make them and us believe that they do - but they just don't. Once they enter high school - maybe. Once they enter college - surely. Once they enter the job world...the basic stuff, absolutely. Programming? Coding? Only if their job takes them that way. In our world today everyone picks up the necessary skills almost automatically.[b] A child does not need to learn how to type on a keyboard before they get into the teenage years. [/b]Honestly, no child even actually needs to 'learn' that either. Just having them exposed to PC and internet from an appropriate age on automatically slowly has them pick up the typing skill. There is exactly ZERO need to start at age 1 with introducing children to technology. Zero. And if you feel differently and really have your young children have screen time daily from birth I feel sorry for their brain development.[/quote]

? My kid turns in typed papers in fifth grade. As a typist myself, I want him to learn the proper way to type and not just hunt and peck. Kids should be taking good quality keyboarding classes before the teen years for sure.[/quote]

Starting in later elementary school my children had school assignments that were REQUIRED to be typed. And assignments that involved internet research. If I insisted that my child not use a computer until an "appropriate age" and defined that age as the teen years, it would have made completing those assignments in the manner specified rather difficult. Not sure where you came up with that age limit from.

And honestly, I think you need to relax a bit. This isn't the huge deal you seem to think it is. Technology is like nearly everything else in that it's perfectly fine used in moderation and a potential problem if used too much. It's not some evil thing that's going to destroy your child's mind unless you let it get to that point by providing your kid with no guidance about how to use it properly.

I subscribe to the "forbidden fruit" theory for everything that is not innately harmful or immoral, and I would rather model for my kids how to use technology as only one part of a balanced, healthy, fulfilling lifestyle than ban it until their teen years and have them so desperate to 'catch up' on what they feel they've been missing out on that they go crazy.[/quote]

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