![]() We found the computer almost a necessity for DD when she was around 18 months because she was a child who didn't nap and was always bringing us books after books to read to her. I remember the reading-the-same-book-over-and-over-stage. ![]() Your comment about the repeating of pages of books makes me thing that your little one is starting to crack the reading code. We got him some education pre-K/K software, and he loved that for awhile. We saved pbs and nick jr and other kid sites to his favorites. I think between 2-3, DS was pretty independent with the computer. He learned his numbers 1-20, and some basic counting stuff, and played with that quite a bit. I've always had a rollerball (stationary) mouse, which DS could easily use at a young age by using one hand to roll and the other to click.Īt 18 months, DS's grandma got him a leapfrog count and learn math desk, which he loved. We called it the smiley-face game (I showed him how a colon and paren made a smiley-face.) Sometimes I'd switch the font to wingdings, and he loved that. I opened a blank screen on Word, and let him go. I can't remember exactly what age he used the computer (I'm sure I could search this site and find something!), but I would somewhere between 1 and 2, he wanted to use the keyboard. I'm all for finding things that can provide a break for mom. When I was home with DS6, he was a very high-needs infant and toddler, who also did not like to nap. I'm another in the camp that anything's OK in moderation, if it doesn't interfere with other important life skills. But for kids that sleep less and do far more per minute already than other kids a little bit of computer games or TV seems harmless. ![]() Not of course for kids that are calmly staring at a wall - where I live I seem to meet a lot of infants and toddlers who are quite content to sit and stare at hardly anything, and in that situation TV or it's more interactive cousin computer websites seem like they would just make it easy to ignore the child for longer. I can't see the harm in 15 minutes of Starfall or even a half hour of TV at a year old. Seems like these things run their course. He'll play on starfall if I suggest it but it's not something he thinks of to do. He does still love his Zac and Peg characters (they sell them on the website, stuffed toys), he just makes them act out his own stories now. He loved Starfall when he was younger, spending nearly an hour a day total on there (starting somewhere in the 16-19 month range), but finished with it by around 2.3 once he'd learned to read. He wants to watch that instead of other options like Clifford. Now at 2.7 his favorite TV is the BBC documentary Walking With Dinosaurs, he watches probably 45 min of it a day starting about 9pm. The guilt of that ! I felt like I was a drug pusher. He would just walk over and turn it off and go find another book for me to read. I tried to interest DS(now 2.7) in TV or videos about then because after hours and hours of high demand parenting I was hoping for a break. 12-18 months was a challenging age for us.
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