AW For Young Child?

[nicho]

What's with all the unwanted parenting advice? If someone wants to get an Apple Watch for their child, that's none of your business. I suspect a lot of people here are too poor to afford that and so are lashing out at the OP

if someone wants to give someone parenting advice, that's none of your business. I suspect a lot of people are too bad at parenting and so are lashing out at those giving reasonable advice.

It's weird that you'd come into the thread, accuse people of doing things they haven't and being things they aren't and not actually contribute to the information the OP is looking for at all. If it helps you sleep at night...
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Do they make bands that will fit small children?

Back to this point - my two year old won't let me test it on her, and i realise my 9 month old will lose a lot of chub, but she's on like the third hole on the 38mm S/M band. it all depends on the build of your child (much like it will as she gets older... some will have "too-big" wrists, some teeny tiny, and some in the middle) but don't discount the fact that the adult sized bands will fit a 6 year old.

 

[deeddawg]

What's with all the unwanted parenting advice? If someone wants to get an Apple Watch for their child, that's none of your business. I suspect a lot of people here are too poor to afford that and so are lashing out at the OP

What's with all the unwanted forum participation advice? If someone wants to reply to a thread, that's none of your business. I suspect a lot of people here are too uptight to handle contrary opinions and so are lashing out at those who post them.

See, you're doing the very thing you're telling others not to do...

FYI, the OP specifically invited people with young children to chime in. He can certainly do whatever he wishes with the resulting opinions.

 

[fischersd]

Actually, if you want a band smaller than 130mm (and the size of the face isn't a problem), I'll likely go with one of the clockworksynergy bands. The nylon 2-piece NATO bands would likely be the best application (just cut it to fit), but they're a little scratchy out of the gate for a child. May want to get one of the softer ones to alter.

Much cheaper than hacking away at Apple bands.

 

[Lennyvalentin]

I'd advice against getting an apple watch for a kid, not just for the iphone requirement, or that kids tend to misplace and lose things, but also the way they play means they're liable to crack that front crystal by banging the watch into something, thus ruining it.

Of course, if you're made of money (and want to teach your kid that money is no objection at any time in their life), then by all means go ahead... By all means, put a watch on each of the kid's limbs. At least one is likely to survive to the end of the day!

 

[fischersd]

I'd advice against getting an apple watch for a kid, not just for the iphone requirement, or that kids tend to misplace and lose things, but also the way they play means they're liable to crack that front crystal by banging the watch into something, thus ruining it.

Of course, if you're made of money (and want to teach your kid that money is no objection at any time in their life), then by all means go ahead... By all means, put a watch on each of the kid's limbs. At least one is likely to survive to the end of the day!

You're thinking of this, aren't you??

 

[tevion]

are you also planning to buy her an iphone?

perhaps learn how to say no, or teach her to want age-appropriate gifts?

We bought our son an iPad when he was 2..... He is now 7, has an iPad Air 2.... He had never forgotten to charge it....

I wouldn't buy him an iPhone or Apple Watch though, the iPad has a shed load of education apps. General maths, sequencing and patterns apps, also uses it for books (which he reads a ton of - he was reading lord of the rings when he was 5). With anything tech that can encourage / enable learning though, as early as possible I say.

As parents in this day and age and as somebody who works in IT, I constantly encourage him with tech. For Christmas he's getting a PC, all the components separately wrapped. He only gets to use it if he builds it himself, installs Windows 10 himself... Under instruction of course....

He will also get an amount deposited to his Steam account (when he gets one) each month, providing he completes coding courses. He already does allot with scratch... By 12 I want him to have a good handle on Java, Scala, AWS, Unit Testing and relational databases...

Also promised to buy him a MacBook when he's able to spin up his on VPC, EC2 instances and be able to code / execute a lambda function via HTTP.

Then when he creates Facebook V2, his dad can retire.

Great thing.. He loves all this stuff.

 

[44267547]

I would only get her a refurbished one - if the price is right.

Agree with the possibility of losing it. Probably wouldn't let her wear it to school.

Santa doesn't have to get it for her. I'm exploring the possibility.

If you were looking to save money without investing to much, you could buy a used first Gen Apple Sport Watch. Likely you could find one around fairly cheap.

 

[kapolani]

If you were looking to save money without investing to much, you could buy a used first Gen Apple Sport Watch. Likely you could find one around fairly cheap.

This is what I'm aiming for. Cheap (relative) first gen AW.

Seems like I won't find a strap for it.

Daughter already moved on to the next thing - a drum set!

 

[nicho]

This is what I'm aiming for. Cheap (relative) first gen AW.

Seems like I won't find a strap for it.

Daughter already moved on to the next thing - a drum set!

you shouldn't be drums for your child, you could hurt their ears!

 

[44267547]

This is what I'm aiming for. Cheap (relative) first gen AW.

Seems like I won't find a strap for it.

Daughter already moved on to the next thing - a drum set!

Seems like a drum set would be a great gift
Over the Apple Watch for your daughter.

 

[kapolani]

We bought our son an iPad when he was 2..... He is now 7, has an iPad Air 2.... He had never forgotten to charge it....

I wouldn't buy him an iPhone or Apple Watch though, the iPad has a shed load of education apps. General maths, sequencing and patterns apps, also uses it for books (which he reads a ton of - he was reading lord of the rings when he was 5). With anything tech that can encourage / enable learning though, as early as possible I say.

As parents in this day and age and as somebody who works in IT, I constantly encourage him with tech. For Christmas he's getting a PC, all the components separately wrapped. He only gets to use it if he builds it himself, installs Windows 10 himself... Under instruction of course....

He will also get an amount deposited to his Steam account (when he gets one) each month, providing he completes coding courses. He already does allot with scratch... By 12 I want him to have a good handle on Java, Scala, AWS, Unit Testing and relational databases...

Also promised to buy him a MacBook when he's able to spin up his on VPC, EC2 instances and be able to code / execute a lambda function via HTTP.

Then when he creates Facebook V2, his dad can retire.

Great thing.. He loves all this stuff.

I think I only skimmed over this the first time through.

Good on you! My daughter loves tech and gadgets since she sees me with my gear all the time. I'm a software engineer and plan to get my daughter interested in coding. She seems to be leaning towards the arts, though.

She draws/colors and make projects as soon as she gets home! Pretty awesome. I suck horribly at the arts. I see these beautiful images in my head and as soon as I try to put to paper these stick figures come out!

 

[deeddawg]

Seems like a drum set would be a great gift

Drum sets are a better gift for OTHER people's children. Trust me on this.

 

[mr.steevo]

We bought our son an iPad when he was 2..... He is now 7, has an iPad Air 2.... He had never forgotten to charge it....

I wouldn't buy him an iPhone or Apple Watch though, the iPad has a shed load of education apps. General maths, sequencing and patterns apps, also uses it for books (which he reads a ton of - he was reading lord of the rings when he was 5). With anything tech that can encourage / enable learning though, as early as possible I say.

As parents in this day and age and as somebody who works in IT, I constantly encourage him with tech. For Christmas he's getting a PC, all the components separately wrapped. He only gets to use it if he builds it himself, installs Windows 10 himself... Under instruction of course....

He will also get an amount deposited to his Steam account (when he gets one) each month, providing he completes coding courses. He already does allot with scratch... By 12 I want him to have a good handle on Java, Scala, AWS, Unit Testing and relational databases...

Also promised to buy him a MacBook when he's able to spin up his on VPC, EC2 instances and be able to code / execute a lambda function via HTTP.

Then when he creates Facebook V2, his dad can retire.

Great thing.. He loves all this stuff.

We bought our 3 year old an ipod touch for her to play with and after a year she hasn't lost it. We got it for her because our 2 year old was really enjoying his iPhone 4 and she wanted one as well.

...I'm being serious.

Of course the looks we'd get from parents when our 2 year old was saying "where's my iPhone" varied from hilarity to angry. I thought it was funny but my wife found it embarrassing.

And I know what you're thinking. Why the heck did our 2 year old have an iPhone 4? Because it was free.

 

[Snoopy4]

She has an iPad mini that I won from work that has LTE.

Perhaps you can raise your child the way you want and I can raise mine how I see fit?

You're suggesting buying a $300 or more watch for a first grader. As a father of an eight year old, I'm left scratching my head why someone would do such a thing. Go to the Disney website and order a Minnie Mouse watch.

https://www.disneystore.com/accessories/watches/mn/1000302/?searchTerms=Watch&isSearchRedirect=1

 

[44267547]

Drum sets are a better gift for OTHER people's children. Trust me on this.

Maybe I'm just naïve? What did you mean by a better gift for others or trusting you on your quote? I was just agreeing an Apple Watch wouldn't be the most appropriate fit for a young girl, versus something more practical like a drum set or what have you.

 

[nicho]

Maybe I'm just naïve? What did you mean by a better gift for others or trusting you on your quote? I was just agreeing an Apple Watch wouldn't be the most appropriate fit for a young girl, versus something more practical like a drum set or what have you.

i think his point was, if you buy your own kid a drum kit, you have to listen to them practicing drums *in your own house*... and most likely badly, at least at first.

 

[44267547]

i think his point was, if you buy your own kid a drum kit, you have to listen to them practicing drums *in your own house*... and most likely badly, at least at first.

That makes sense. I don't have children, so maybe that's why I didn't pick up on that. Thanks for the reply.

 

[kapolani]

You're suggesting buying a $300 or more watch for a first grader. As a father of an eight year old, I'm left scratching my head why someone would do such a thing. Go to the Disney website and order a Minnie Mouse watch.

https://www.disneystore.com/accessories/watches/mn/1000302/?searchTerms=Watch&isSearchRedirect=1

You must have missed the part about first generation refurbished watch.

Cursory inspection of the internet results in several hits of watches that cost less than $175.

Hardly something to scratch your head over.

 

[deeddawg]

i think his point was, if you buy your own kid a drum kit, you have to listen to them practicing drums *in your own house*... and most likely badly, at least at first.

Correct.

It was tongue in cheek of course. In reality now-a-days there are e-drum setups where they don't make much noise at all to anyone not wearing the attached headphones.

 

[Snoopy4]

You must have missed the part about first generation refurbished watch.

Cursory inspection of the internet results in several hits of watches that cost less than $175.

Hardly something to scratch your head over.

Refurbished or not, it's still a $300 watch.

 

[CarlJ]

Refurbished or not, it's still a $300 watch.

OP asks for technical advice and please no parenting lessons, you've provided no useful technical advice but you feel the need to provide parenting lessons. Were the instructions not clear? Or are you simply not capable of following them? You only get to decide how to raise your children - not everyone else's.
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It was tongue in cheek of course. In reality now-a-days there are e-drum setups where they don't make much noise at all to anyone not wearing the attached headphones.

Electronic drums with headphones overtaking real drumsets with ear-shattering cymbals, no good chemistry sets, no Erector Sets with finger chewing motors, no Creepy Crawlers with hotplate so you can splatter yourself with molten plastic. About the best you can do these days in sneak around your friends-who-have-kids houses and put batteries back into all the noise-making toys that they've carefully removed the batteries from. I wonder if they still make "Mr. Microphone" - because what's better than a yelling kid? An amplified yelling kid.

 

[deeddawg]

OP asks for technical advice and please no parenting lessons, you feel the need to provide parenting lessons. Were the instructions not clear?

Hmm, this part of the OP seemed pretty clear:

Anyone with young children (6 yo) want to chime in?

Parents chimed in as requested.

The OP is free to consider or reject those other opinions as he sees fit.

While he did later push back on the open opinion sharing, it's pretty common for people to reply to an OP without reading a full thread.

I wonder if they still make "Mr. Microphone" - because what's better than a yelling kid? An amplified yelling kid.

Of course they do, and in many variations: http://www.target.com/s/mr+microphone+toy

It's a wonder any children these days have siblings.

 

[SoN1NjA]

Drum sets are a better gift for OTHER people's children. Trust me on this.

Funniest thing I've read today
Thanks

 

[Closingracer]

Funny how you think i'm judging you as a parent for wanting to buy a sub $200 watch, not reasonably assuming you wouldn't accessorise it with a $500+ iphone that it wouldn't work so well without...

with regards to the idea of pairing it to one phone (yours) as a second watch, that could work but only if you have only one yourself. you would need to do a few things:

• disable auto switching, which will mean your watch will always connect to your phone and the other watch will never do so. it will still be able to connect to the internet over wifi.
• disable every type of notification on your child's watch. i'm sure you don't want imessages popping up on her watch face, and you probably dont want her replying some random thoughts via siri to your boss's important email. you can't disable these features completely, and the watch will connect to wifi so she'll have limited access to these. stopping notifications is the best you can do to shield yourself from any mishaps.
• phone - depends if you have wifi calling on your network. if so, on wifi, every time you get a phone call it'll buzz on her wrist as well as yours. no way around it other than turning it off entirely on your iphone (if thats possible?)
• occasional maintenance of your iphone's "health" app to make sure her activity data isn't overwriting yours. shouldn't be an issue until you actually connect to the watch via bluetooth. when you do, you can delete everything it adds in one click if accuracy of the data is your thing (it's mine).

is it the mickey and minnie visuals or the sounds she likes?
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Not true. The smallest hole on the 38mm S/M band is barely usable as it is, as so much of the band has to tuck through and it almost meets the case. any holes further up on the nike band will create issues with overlap.

You can buy an iPhone 5 for under $200 dollars....


You can turn off wifi calling

 

[nicho]

You can turn off wifi calling

Boiler noises too loud in the winter? You can turn that off too.