What devices should toddlers be allowed to use?
There has been some work on the use of technology by toddlers (for example, this paper). By and large, there are some advantages to the use of some of these technologies by children. For example, even two-year-old children started collaborating more and working in concert even when they were using their personal iPads (see link above). But there are other disadvantages that might arise through technology use such as access to violence (source).
What kind of devices do/did you allow your toddlers to use? If a toddler wants to use an iPad that the parents own, how were they allowed to use the iPad? Are there any apps that would be interesting/useful for them when using such technology?
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The tradition we have with the ipad and other screen devise is not to allow the toddler to be alone on the machine, and only for a few minutes at a time (20-40 min). When the time is up we brake into other activity like eating or what ever we had planed so there is no Drama or tantrums that the toy is taken away from the child. We do this so that the child has an idea about how to use the technology without taking to much time from other things.
I think it is not so much about what devices/apps should be allowed but about the time limits.
Our daughter, now 3.5 is allowed to use the iPhone or the Laptop, but we try to limit it to max. half an hour.
From experience she rarely stops using electronic devices herself, we have to enforce the limit.
She likes browsing photos, Videos on YouTube, Skype (with her grandparents or cousin) and Tamagotchi like animal apps.
She has friends who are using devices a lot more than her, but i think at this age it is enough to know the basic idea how they work.
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