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Tablets a hit with kids, but experts worry
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| Dec 24, 2013
| BREE FOWLER
Posted on 12/28/2013 10:45:05 AM PST by upchuck
Edited on 12/28/2013 11:48:05 AM PST by Admin Moderator.
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Tablets and smartphones. The new babysitters? You're doing a disservice to your children if so.
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posted on
12/28/2013 10:45:05 AM PST
by
upchuck
To: upchuck
>>You’re doing a disservice to your children if so. <<
Because Playstations and laptops were so successful in child-rearing.
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posted on
12/28/2013 10:46:58 AM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Fight Tapinophobia in all its forms! Do not submit to arduus privilege.)
To: upchuck
I remember “tablet” was a common synonym for “pill”. The pharmaceutical industry still uses the term, too.
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posted on
12/28/2013 10:47:55 AM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: upchuck
Damn those tablets! They've been a nuisance for thousands of years!
To: upchuck
...but experts worry... What would we ever do without experts?
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posted on
12/28/2013 10:56:17 AM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(ZERO is still zero!)
To: SamAdams76
Those look like Sumerian Tax Records.
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posted on
12/28/2013 11:03:43 AM PST
by
UCANSEE2
(I forgot what my tagline was supposed to say)
To: SamAdams76
That looks like the new Windows 8 interface!
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posted on
12/28/2013 11:05:40 AM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
(There's no salvation in politics.)
To: SamAdams76
:) I thought about putting something snarky like that in reply number one but figured if I didn’t, one of you would. Thanks.
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posted on
12/28/2013 11:05:48 AM PST
by
upchuck
(My Internet addiction is so bad... it's alt of ctrl.)
To: UCANSEE2
It’s the Babylonian Revenue Service Cuni Form. :)
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posted on
12/28/2013 11:07:02 AM PST
by
Larry Lucido
(If you like your all your base, you can keep your all your base. - CATS)
To: upchuck
iPads are wonderful potty training tools, and with Netflix my kids can watch old cartoons. I can’t stand “learning” cartoons that dominate TV.
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posted on
12/28/2013 11:08:35 AM PST
by
goodwithagun
(My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
To: upchuck
“even a 3-year-old can master them”
correction
even some 3 year old can learn how to use them adequately enough to amaze the adults who never bothered to learn how to use one.
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posted on
12/28/2013 11:29:00 AM PST
by
I want the USA back
(Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
To: goodwithagun
They aren’t kidding about 3 year olds being able to master them. I watched my granddaughter, who just turned 3, turn on her mother’s tablet, navigate to Netflix, call up her own watchlist, and start watching her favorite movie. Blew me away.
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posted on
12/28/2013 11:32:31 AM PST
by
Oldhunk
To: Oldhunk
Yeah I bought my grandkids (then 3, 3, and 5 yrs old) iPads 2 yrs ago. I’m ambivalent on the outcome.
I think being a parent in the internet age is more difficult in some respects than before.
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posted on
12/28/2013 11:34:49 AM PST
by
nascarnation
(Wish everyone see a "Gay Kwanzaa")
To: upchuck
Tablets are for information “consumers”.
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posted on
12/28/2013 11:38:04 AM PST
by
The Duke
("Forgiveness is between them and God, it's my job to arrange the meeting.")
To: upchuck
Well, I was concerned about tablet use, but now that the experts have weighed in, I feel much better about letting my children have one. LOL
Most things in life are simple: all things in moderation.
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posted on
12/28/2013 12:06:03 PM PST
by
deks
(Happy New Year!)
To: nascarnation
The big problem is that the kids spend way too much time sitting on their butts with all their electronic devices.
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posted on
12/28/2013 12:14:56 PM PST
by
Oldhunk
To: Oldhunk
In this case, Momma imposes some very discrete time allocations.
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posted on
12/28/2013 12:19:17 PM PST
by
nascarnation
(Wish everyone see a "Gay Kwanzaa")
To: upchuck
My then-3yo was learning algebra and programming with one. It’s not the tool, it’s what you do with it.
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posted on
12/28/2013 12:21:16 PM PST
by
ctdonath2
(Making good people helpless doesn't make bad people harmless.)
To: Dr. Sivana; SamAdams76
Looks like a primitive Rubic’s Cube
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posted on
12/28/2013 12:21:43 PM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(Miss Muffit suffered from arachnophobia.....)
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