Re: Thoughts

Obviously from some of the responses, you are not alone in your opinion of technology vs young children. I definitely don't share that opinion.

For me, we are a technological age. Heck, my Ped office doesn't even use files anymore, the Dr carries around a tablet. Children are expected to start school younger (3 is now the norm) and they are expected to know how to navigate around a computer. Of course we didn't do these things at their age (I'm 38) but when the technology was finally available, we had the gadgets - the commodore 64s, the walkman's, the handheld video games, etc. The fact that it's starting younger is just a product of our environment.

My daughter is 2...she's been navigating around my iPhone since she was 7m old. She is a little wiz on my iPad...and since I got the iPhone 4 for my birthday, she now has my old iPhone 3G - minus the data plan of course.

She also loves to draw and color and play hide and seek and play-doh...she loves to make music and dance and use her spy-scope fashioned out of a toilet paper roll...and there is a percentage of the time that she's doing all that by herself. So if you were to spy on us one day, you'd probably see me with my face in some gadget either answering emails or facebook or paying bills, all while she was entertaining herself the old-fashioned way. Solitary play is important at this age...and yet that isn't looked at as neglectful nor is pity cast down on the child bc s/he is being 'ignored'.

Not sure why there is a double standard but I assume it does stem from judgement.