Anyone have experience with tablets for kids?

We got my son a Kindle Fire Kids one. It works well for what he does with it. I can say it's slow, but it gets the job done. He still grabs my phone every chance he can get his hands on it.

Give him a book, and teach them how to be social. It pains me to see children only interested in playing games on smart devices

I bought my daughter (then 2 years old) a Pixel tablet last Christmas.

It's fast, has great battery life, an amazing screen and never has technical hiccups.

Highly suggeated and worth every cent as a fluid, expansive, learning tool.

Did you have a tablet growing up?

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Did you have a tablet growing up?

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No, because they didn't exist. I did get a computer though once my parents could afford one.

Computers/tablets/phones/devices in general can be a good and useful tool. They can also be used to entertain or watch shows that are made for learning. My daughter watches mind numbing stuff as well as learning shows. She also plays outside and reads probably 10+ kids books a night. I'd say most kids fit this same mold in 2017.

Kids in the 1800's had to read books in the candlelight, with no air conditioning, in New Orleans in August. Yea, no thanks. Not going backwards my man.

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Did you have a tablet growing up?

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It's all about what is available on the tablet.

My son learned his colors, shapes, numbers, and letters faster than any kid I've met because he loved the cheering whenever he correctly chose the answer. Once he could ace it, I changed the content to spelling and sentence completion games. He can read a couple grades above where his classmates are because of the versatility of learning apps available to keep him excited and engaged in learning.

On a side note:
I had YouTube kids on it because of nursery songs when the kids were real little. After they got old enough and started that crap of people playing with toys, I deleted YouTube.

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I had YouTube kids on it because of nursery songs when the kids were real little.

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You don't know hell until you've listened to "Daddy finger, daddy finger" 2000000000000000000000 times.

My daughter was saying her A-B-C's, counting to 30 and knew all her colors not long after turning 2 thanks to her tablet use.

And yes whoever came up with the daddy finger song can die in a fire.

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She would do the same or better had you sat down with her and taught them to her yourself.

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So when I was driving to Houston, I should have printed flashcards to hold up for my 1 year-old to look at through a mirror from his real facing carseat for the six hours?

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Education has not been improved from the use of tablets and smartphones, it's gone backwards.

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I ain't ever seen anything so arse backwards in my life.

Education is crap because parents don't give a shite about their kids or they think they can do better than the teachers (which is almost always not true)....I agree with you that technology has taken away some valuable social interaction from life....but to say it has hurt education is idiocy. The fact that we have every encyclopedia volume ever printed at our fingertips for free is amazing. My parents paid 100+ bucks for a set that was out date as soon as that bought it. I mean come on man.