8 thoughts on “Why Baguette Has Her Own iPad, Part 1”
how old was she when she first started to use it? do you see any affect on her mood and behavior? i let my 22-month old son play with some (entirely age-appropriate) games on the ipad for a couple of days when he was sick and he completely got addicted — he became grumpy and had tantrums when he wasn’t allowed to play with it whenever he wanted it (which was for longer and longer periods every day). It has scared us so badly that now we’re afraid to let him have any kind of screen time…
We got it this past June, so she would have been about 3 years, 2 months. She would have been using mine for maybe a month before that. Baguette can get really mesmerized by it, particularly if we’re away from home–if we’re at home, there are other things she wants to play with. So now that it’s not new, she’ll play with it for a bit, go play with something else, and then come back to it.
We do give her countdowns to when she has to give it up. So we’ll tell her something like “Two minutes and then bye-bye iPad” and then let her know increments from there. She may object, but she’ll still hand it over and then do something else. And we try to limit her time with it, although when we were traveling over Christmas, we let her use it more.
My kid has her own iPad too. And I don’t even feel a bit bad about it. I mean, who ELSE is going to parent when she’s up at 4 am for the millionth consecutive day?????
(In all seriousness though, my husband and I really like tech toys, and we’ve upgrade our iDevices and passed down our old ones. We don’t have many of the other trappings of North American parenthood, no car, few toys, a tiny apartment…this is one area in which we indulge!)
Also, I find, at least for my girl, she will gorge on the iPad on occasion, but would rather play imagination games with a parent when given the choice. She’ll voluntarily toss aside the iPad in favour of her babies or cooking toys when she’s had her fill of screen time, and more or less gives up the iPad with only minimal flight when it’s time to turn it off. This makes me feel like a little parenting by iDevice isn’t really a problem in our case.
I felt like Baguette got too much screen time when we were traveling, but we were able to step it down pretty easily. And the fact that she will put it down, pick it up again, and put it down again means I don’t worry about it too much.
Little Dude has his own iPad, too. It’s my old on when I got an iPad Mini. He is 7. He started plating games on my iPhone when he was 3.
I started by letting her play with my iTouch, and then with my iPad. Then she started destroying it, and we bought her a refurbished older model. Now we’re all happy.
Nickolaus doesn’t have his own iPad, but he does steal David’s and then scream, “MINE!” When we try to take it from him. So, it’s almost like having his own. Of course, he believes he also owns 3 iPhones, several TV remotes, all toys that he sees, as well as, well, everything he can see. If he can see it, it’s HIS. He has learned how to take selfies, mostly of his legs, and send emails of gibberish to various people on my contact list. He also enjoys spinning the camera view around and around when facetiming Katie (his older sister.) Then he hangs up on her, because that red button is just too tempting. He just turned 2.
how old was she when she first started to use it? do you see any affect on her mood and behavior? i let my 22-month old son play with some (entirely age-appropriate) games on the ipad for a couple of days when he was sick and he completely got addicted — he became grumpy and had tantrums when he wasn’t allowed to play with it whenever he wanted it (which was for longer and longer periods every day). It has scared us so badly that now we’re afraid to let him have any kind of screen time…
We got it this past June, so she would have been about 3 years, 2 months. She would have been using mine for maybe a month before that. Baguette can get really mesmerized by it, particularly if we’re away from home–if we’re at home, there are other things she wants to play with. So now that it’s not new, she’ll play with it for a bit, go play with something else, and then come back to it.
We do give her countdowns to when she has to give it up. So we’ll tell her something like “Two minutes and then bye-bye iPad” and then let her know increments from there. She may object, but she’ll still hand it over and then do something else. And we try to limit her time with it, although when we were traveling over Christmas, we let her use it more.
My kid has her own iPad too. And I don’t even feel a bit bad about it. I mean, who ELSE is going to parent when she’s up at 4 am for the millionth consecutive day?????
(In all seriousness though, my husband and I really like tech toys, and we’ve upgrade our iDevices and passed down our old ones. We don’t have many of the other trappings of North American parenthood, no car, few toys, a tiny apartment…this is one area in which we indulge!)
Also, I find, at least for my girl, she will gorge on the iPad on occasion, but would rather play imagination games with a parent when given the choice. She’ll voluntarily toss aside the iPad in favour of her babies or cooking toys when she’s had her fill of screen time, and more or less gives up the iPad with only minimal flight when it’s time to turn it off. This makes me feel like a little parenting by iDevice isn’t really a problem in our case.
I felt like Baguette got too much screen time when we were traveling, but we were able to step it down pretty easily. And the fact that she will put it down, pick it up again, and put it down again means I don’t worry about it too much.
Little Dude has his own iPad, too. It’s my old on when I got an iPad Mini. He is 7. He started plating games on my iPhone when he was 3.
I started by letting her play with my iTouch, and then with my iPad. Then she started destroying it, and we bought her a refurbished older model. Now we’re all happy.
Nickolaus doesn’t have his own iPad, but he does steal David’s and then scream, “MINE!” When we try to take it from him. So, it’s almost like having his own. Of course, he believes he also owns 3 iPhones, several TV remotes, all toys that he sees, as well as, well, everything he can see. If he can see it, it’s HIS. He has learned how to take selfies, mostly of his legs, and send emails of gibberish to various people on my contact list. He also enjoys spinning the camera view around and around when facetiming Katie (his older sister.) Then he hangs up on her, because that red button is just too tempting. He just turned 2.