My son is 6 and has an iPad 2, an iPod, a DS and a Wii. Believe it or not this doesn't make me a bad parent. This is the age of advanced technology and gone are the days when kids could sit in their bedrooms and play with a plastic car for four hours. Imaginations are stretched in other ways, eg. RPGs, and the brain is exercised by way of logic & puzzle games, even the act of getting Mario through a castle to defeat the boss takes the brain on a journey of logic, coordination, reflexes, instinct, etc.
That isn't to say my child is glued to technology. Weather permitting, he's playing outside more than inside, and he can still be found building forts out of blankets, making dinosaurs out of Lego, finding spot the differences in quiz books & fighting invisible pirates.
It's worth noting he's in the advanced group in his class so clearly his intelligence isn't suffering just because he spends a lot of time using technology.
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That isn't to say my child is glued to technology. Weather permitting, he's playing outside more than inside, and he can still be found building forts out of blankets, making dinosaurs out of Lego, finding spot the differences in quiz books & fighting invisible pirates.
It's worth noting he's in the advanced group in his class so clearly his intelligence isn't suffering just because he spends a lot of time using technology.
All the judging on this thread is misplaced.
If your 8yr old cousin wanted a tablet, you could've saved about £70 and got her a vastly superior Nexus 7 instead.
Or saved yourself even more money and given her a box of Anadin.