How to Limit What a Toddler Can Do When You Hand Over Your iPhone or iPad

[mr_bam]

They are geniuses on these devices as soon as they are born.

What Apple really needs to implement in Messages for iCloud is 30 day delete for all iMessages and Conversations just like they do for iCloud Photos.

One swipe on a conversation in Messages and a tap to delete by a toddler can be a whole year of a family member conversation gone in a flash. No way to undo. No backup.

I think that's an important feature regardless if toddlers get hold of a device or not.

 

[2010mini]

How about not giving a toddler screen time. Instead give them actual toys to play with and develop motor skills?

 

[mr_bam]

How about not giving a toddler screen time. Instead give them actual toys to play with and develop motor skills?

Screen time is limited to 10 minutes of TV per day and no iPhones or iPads in our house.

The incident happened when a phone was put down unlocked and unknowingly in reach of said 1 year old. Accidents happen. I still think deleting Message Conversations is too easy and should have a 30 day cool off in the iCloud "trash can".

 

[MysticCow]

Yes, because those children need their digital babysitter instead of actually being RAISED by their parents...

 

[maktaba]

Regardless of whether one should give one’s child a phone/tablet or not, the Guided Access is a great feature that works very well.

 

[4jasontv]

Yes, because those children need their digital babysitter instead of actually being RAISED by their parents...

Raised, razed. It’s all the same. Children are just the most absurd game of telephone ever.

 

[jtopp]

What research shows that a toddler playing a game designed for language development is counter productive?

What research shows that a toddler playing a game designed for language development is counter productive?

Preschooler Screen Time Linked to Attention Problems

Parents of preschoolers know it’s challenging to keep their kids from watching screens all day long. Now, a recent study shows the more screen time little ones get, the more problems they have paying attention.

newsroom.clevelandclinic.org

There is tons of research.

 

[Dcgod]

This is how Log4JShell was discovered...

 

[GuilleA]

How about not letting a toddler use any tech whatsoever? no tech until they're at least 4

 

[Jefferyd32]

How about just not giving young kids screens? Buy some books and normal toys and just be a parent.

 

[MysticCow]

How about just not giving young kids screens? Buy some books and normal toys and just be a parent.

WHAT? You mean actually take RESPONSIBILITY for the little brat those parents brought into the world? HOW DARE YOU, SIR???? HOW DARE YOU?!?!?!

 

[MacAddict2000]

Alternative option: don’t handle iPads or the likes to toddlers.

There is an entire world out there for them to discover.

Amen! My step-daughter was practically born holding an iPad and I quickly put an end to it when I came into the picture at age 2 ½, but the damage had already been done. She is now 11. Our son (age 6) didn't have any screen time until last year and it's limited to computer games like Minecraft or BeamNG Drive. He has an imagination, patience, and can entertain himself. They are polar opposites.

Didn't Steve Jobs prevent his kids from having devices?

 

[Le0M]

Let me just say that it's pathetic that some parents would feel the need to give their kids a tablet/phone to enjoy life, let alone toddlers.
We are experiencing machines, mostly at an early stage of our existence, and not giving chances to these experiences means to prevent these humans to know the world with their own experience.

This society has gone nuts.

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

I've read some horror stories. People locked out of their devices for decades. Yeah, do not give tech to your toddlers. Not even your keys. (That last one makes me sick just thinking about it.

 

[willzyx]

It's amusing reading non-parents give parents a parental advice.

 

[Le0M]

What research shows that a toddler playing a game designed for language development is counter productive?

the fact that all the time they spend on the device, it is time they don't spend experiencing the world.

 

[Madhatter32]

the fact that all the time they spend on the device, it is time they don't spend experiencing the world.

This is true for grown ups too. I think this feature will help some parents -- so it's a good thing.

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

Amen! My step-daughter was practically born holding an iPad and I quickly put an end to it when I came into the picture at age 2 ½, but the damage had already been done. She is now 11. Our son (age 6) didn't have any screen time until last year and it's limited to computer games like Minecraft or BeamNG Drive. He has an imagination, patience, and can entertain himself. They are polar opposites.

Didn't Steve Jobs prevent his kids from having devices?

I'll have to look for it, but the New Zork Times had an article a couple years or so ago comparing 'screen time' in private and public schools. (And 'rich' parents and 'poor' ones) The 'screen time' was drastically higher in the public schools, and in some private schools, was almost entirely nonexistent. They were not trying to prove anything, they said, but were pointing out that overworked, parents, and understaffed school systems are depending on the technology to babysit their children/students. Then, at an Applebee's, I witnessed a family having their two 8-ish year olds throw a fit at being deprived of their tablets for the short time to eat. They really were pitching quite a fit. Most people were either staring, or trying to ignore the frackus. I was horrified and thought back to that article. What are 'we' doing to our kids, and their future. Yikes...

 

[Madhatter32]

I'll have to look for it, but the New Zork Times had an article a couple years or so ago comparing 'screen time' in private and public schools. (And 'rich' parents and 'poor' ones) The 'screen time' was drastically higher in the public schools, and in some private schools, was almost entirely nonexistent. They were not trying to prove anything, they said, but were pointing out that overworked, parents, and understaffed school systems are depending on the technology to babysit their children/students. Then, at an Applebee's, I witnessed a family having their two 8-ish year olds throw a fit at being deprived of their tablets for the short time to eat. They really were pitching quite a fit. Most people were either staring, or trying to ignore the frackus. I was horrified and thought back to that article. What are 'we' doing to our kids, and their future. Yikes...

There's a lot more to worry about for our kids than whether they watch an iPad. I remember people used to say the same thing about TV. Early exposure to computers is not necessarily a bad thing either. Bad parenting, though, is usually a bad thing.

 

[MysticCow]

It's amusing reading non-parents give parents a parental advice.

It's amusing reading parents trying to justify their bad decisions that will affect their child for the rest of their natural life.

 

[MysticCow]

There's a lot more to worry about for our kids than whether they watch an iPad. I remember people used to say the same thing about TV. Early exposure to computers is not necessarily a bad thing either. Bad parenting, though, is usually a bad thing.

It isn't a bad thing until mommy and daddy use it for their digital babysitter so they can snort their pills.

DISCLAIMER--This is what I see every single day with my job. EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. WITHOUT. EXCEPTION.

 

[Madhatter32]

It isn't a bad thing until mommy and daddy use it for their digital babysitter so they can snort their pills.

DISCLAIMER--This is what I see every single day with my job. EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. WITHOUT. EXCEPTION.

Well, yes, snorting pills probably is not a good thing -- kids or no kids.

 

[Idun098TZZ]

Not a parent, but has to do with kids. Toddlers, in this fragile age, should only interact with peers and toys, no screen time, no tablet or whatever. I see many parents that are using the cellphone to keep their kids quiet, as a reward for something they did well...
We should definitely have more understanding of the effects this screen will have on the future generation and their mental health but looks that the majority don't care much, not yet...

 

[dschmitty-o]

Reading the multiple comments here on the insanity of toddlers using tablets has restored a bit of my faith in humanity.

 

[koa]

What? Strike anywhere matches and razor blades not good enough for today's kids?