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In message <lj4u4m$1hm$1@dont-email.me> 
  J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> wrote:
> On 4/22/14, 12:09 AM, Lewis wrote:
>> In message <lj24hs$8ss$1@dont-email.me>
>>    J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>> I showed a three-year-old relative how to stream a Buster Keaton movie
>>> on her father's iPad.  She was enthralled.
>>
>>> It seems unwise to let a little kid use an iPad without supervision,
>>
>> Why? I know one little girl who just turned 4 and she's had an iPad of
>> her own since she was less than 2.
>>
> I'm barely familiar with iPads.  Getting the movie to stream was only 
> the second time I'd touched it.

> I believe if a child spilled fluid on an iPad, that would damage it and 
> void the warranty.  I imagine the screen could break if it fell.

The iPad pretty much has to be submerged for water to get into it. As
for breaking from a fall, possible, if you are using on a tile floor and
drop it off a full-height table. Otherwise, they are quite sturdy.

> It's her mother's iPad. I imagine that without supervision, the girl 
> could have damaged her mother's files. I don't know if the OS has 
> options for protection.

I has Guided Access which for some reason no one uses. I use it all the
time on my full sized iPad where accidentally hitting the 'Home' button
is a frequent occurrence. I don't use it much on the iPad mini, but I am
also not reading ebooks as much on the mini.

> The girl was so intent on the image in front of her nose that she seemed 
> oblivious to her father when he read the captions.  I've read that this 
> is typical of small children with iPads and that, like addicts, the can 
> lose interest in other pastimes.  Some parents and psychologists think 
> it may be more harmful than too much TV.

> http://www.cultofmac.com/275304/ipad-play-may-damage-infants-ability-use-building-blocks/
> This article says nursery teachers have found that kids who have iPads 
> have little or no manipulative skills.

But they have much more advanced fine-motor skills. Comme ci, comme ça.¹

¹ (Interestingly, to me, I always thought that phrase was Spanish (com
si, com sa, until I looked it up.)

-- 
I think it would be fun to run a newspaper.

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Mini and toddlers J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2014-04-20 23:50 -0400
  Re: Mini and toddlers J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2014-04-21 00:11 -0400
    Re: Mini and toddlers me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2014-04-21 19:23 +0000
      Re: Mini and toddlers nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-04-21 15:35 -0400
      Re: Mini and toddlers J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2014-04-21 18:37 -0400
  Re: Mini and toddlers nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-04-21 00:13 -0400
  Re: Mini and toddlers Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-04-22 04:09 +0000
    Re: Mini and toddlers J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2014-04-22 01:19 -0400
      Re: Mini and toddlers dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-04-22 18:41 +1000
      Re: Mini and toddlers Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-04-22 13:50 +0000
      Re: Mini and toddlers me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2014-04-28 14:26 +0000

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