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Originally Posted by mark46th
If you give my 2 year old granddaughter an iPhone or an iPad, she will have open and doing something in about 10 seconds. It is frightening how fast the little ones pick this stuff up,
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Here's an interesting one:
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opini...#axzz2o63QTLp2
When our kids were babies and I was deployed we received "Baby Einstein" DVDs.
I think the company sold for about a billion based on a marketing gimmick......good on them!
In reality, for my wife trying to juggle everything in my absence it was a convenient 20-30 minutes to get things done and keep the boys mesmerized with colours, shapes, and sounds.
A higher tech version of wind up and elastic toys we had as children.
What does concern me is the potential risks posed to children(and adults too) using smart phones and tablets where the same subtle audio/visual/psychological techniques implemented with modern video gambling terminals to hook gamblers could become problematic.
Audio/visual technological addiction.
I was just reading something a few months back that was a bit startling where the article posited that teens were expanding technology spending at the expense of smoking/drinking/drugs.
IF true, I don't see public policy and parents across the spectrum suddenly doing a better job across the board.....it leads me to suspect it's simply one form of addiction being dominated by another