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When is the earliest you've given/would give this to your LO's. O will be 20 months on Monday and we're debating it for a Christmas gift. He loves the ipad and our phones. We were also thinking about our connecting flight for the holidays and thinking the leap pad would be nice to have for travel.

Any thoughts/experience?
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  • c-elizabethfc-elizabethf member
    edited December 2014
    MIL and FIL got the leap pad for dd for Christmas. It's the disney princess one, I know she will like it. I'm not going to let her play on it all day or anything.
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    Personally I am not a fan of tablets for LOs. I haven't bought my 3yr old one yet.


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    I got her an innotab for Christmas along with some age appropriate games. She loves our phones and isn't allowed to play with them, but I think the educational games are just that...educational. By no means will she be on it all day or even everyday. She's also in dc M-F so she'll only see it on weekends mostly. She's obsessed with pictures so I'm excited to let her play with something without me worrying that she'll put embarrassing pics of me on fb. Lol
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  • KashyKashy member
    That's what we are getting G for Xmas.
    We are not against tablets and technology stuff like that for him.
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  • emmy236emmy236 member
    R is happy with an old phone of DHs that we put kid games on. We would do a tablet when he can start to know letters and numbers so it is educational. That being said we probably won't get him one till next christmas.
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  • john5111john5111 member
    We use our ipad and do like the fisher price apps with our LO. He loves it and you should see him how into it looking at the letters/numbers and hell say some of the pictures.  I think its good for that but no I would not buy him in his own i pad and he uses it with us and for only a short period of time.
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  • DiFazetteDiFazette member
    Thanks all. I'm more interested in whether he'll 'get it' at this age or if it's too early. I don't worry myself with the screen time. If he enjoys it (within reason) it's okay with us.
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    emmy236 said:

    R is happy with an old phone of DHs that we put kid games on. We would do a tablet when he can start to know letters and numbers so it is educational. That being said we probably won't get him one till next christmas.


    @emmy236 - O is learning letters and numbers on our ipad right now with a sesame Street app... it's so fun. We can't say 'one' without him saying two, three....
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  • kelseyhhkelseyhh member

    Emmett isn't huge into technology right now. When he does play with our phones, all he wants to do is push the home button over and over, so he doesn't stay on an app for more than a second.

    I figured that I wont be getting him one until he asks for it. IMO, he'll enjoy other toys just as much right now, so I'd rather get him those.

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  • beatlechickstephbeatlechicksteph member
    We're "those parents" and we only allow LO to play with open-ended play toys where he has to use his imagination. He has not once touched a phone or a tablet, and we won't allow him to have computer/tablet time (for educational purposes only) until he starts preschool. He also doesn't get more than an hour total of tv time per day. I've told grandparents that tech toys are blacklisted and we will exchange them for blocks and books if we are given them. The only "tech" heavy toys he has in Alphapup and Scout, and even though those are growing on me, I wasn't happy when they arrived in my house.  So I guess TL;DR, if a Leap pad came in this house, it would be closer to him starting school, and he would be limited, since he would have to choose how he wanted to spend his allotted screen time: TV or Leap Pad.
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