re: Should kids be allowed to play on ipads/iphones at 2 or 3 years old?

I see it every day in my assessments. The kids that are attached at the hip to the phones/tablets/video games are the ones that are being dealt a raw deal in life. The parents are just lazy and use those tools to shut them up. They are extremely useful and can be a great teaching tool. Limits must be set.

A colleague and I were discussing stuff like this over the weekend. We have a lot of things at our fingertips these days but it's actually harder to be a parent and to find the proper balance. When I was a kid cartoons came on one day a week for about 4-5 hours and that was it. We spent the rest of the time mostly away from the television. The concept of being able to take television with you to the bathroom, a restaurant, the car, etc, was Back to the Future type stuff.