My four year old loves it and he even managed to rack up a $130 bill on my credit card with it.
How did he get your credit card number?
People used to lambaste me for saying that every American born in this country should have a firearm given to the parents for his/her use at the appropriate age. That firearm would provide training, teach responsibility, increase youth awareness of our Constitutional rights, enhance awareness of surroundings, and provide a tool for protection of life and sustenance of health during war or famine.
Now they want to give kids electronic devices that, in the wrong hands, as shown by your example, could be costly, require power from those dastardly coal-fired power plants, expose children to online smut and predators if unsupervised, and turn our society into technology-dependent drones.
I asked a young 20-something what would happen if power was out, cell towers were down, Internet was unavailable, and your iPhone died? The expression was that of a child who’d lost a puppy.
That’s not to say there aren’t positive aspects to these devices, but I believe our social evolution is focusing on the wrong stuff anymore.
I disagree.
Children should be taught to think independently, not to become reliant on machines; expecially those that will likely break within a year and become obsolete within 5.
Apple is probably behind this ant are looking at profits that this will generate; especially when these become n=mandated by the schools.
Ran into the same thing several years ago with my kids. Our schools mandated that all children taking Algebra be provided with a TI-50 programmable calculator (at $120 cost to parents). Turns out that TI developed lesson plans based solely on this unit and the administrators bought into this whole hog.
My son was struggling with a problem one evening and I sat down with him and did his homework on a notepad. He was dumbfounded that I could solve equations without a calculator.
WE ARE NOT TEACHING OUR CHILDREN TO THINK!!!!!
That is great. Now every parent might have to worry about those things.