FAO Scooter : Toddlers and Electronics

[DankBlaniels]

My 21-month-old grandson likes playing with our cell phones and iPods. He knows the buttons to push to turn them on. He swipes his finger across the screen to view different screens. He clicks on icons to access programs. He learned all this simply by watching us.

To keep him from inadvertently calling or texting people in our contact lists, my daughter and I have been searching for toddler apps to keep him occupied. When I did a search for Toddler Games Free on my cell phone and iPod, the list included lots of free apps. I downloaded just a couple - I could have spent days looking at them all. My current favorite is Toddlers Trifling, an Android app that offers several different options including matching colors, counting objects, touching images to hear their sounds, and touching bubbles to pop them.

Because of his curiosity and rapid learning on digital devices, I wondered what research had been done about toddlers and media, specifically interactive digital apps. What I found is that there's not much research out there on the effects of interactive digital apps on toddlers. There is decades-worth of research on the effects of TV/video media on toddlers, but that is primarily focused on sedentary, non-interactive activity.

All of the pediatric experts advise against allowing children under the age of 2 to have too much screen-time. Screen-time includes watching television, playing video games, going on a computer, and accessing programs on other electronic screens, such as cell phones, iPods, and tablets (like iPads.) But all of these experts are speaking from the research on the effects of non-interactive screen-time. As children watch TV or movies, play many video games, and do other screen activities, they are primarily sitting and watching or listening. Too much of this sedentary observation has negative effects on the brain, physical, and social development of children. So the recommendations are "No screens in bedrooms" and "Fire the electronic babysitter."

With the growing app (digital applications) industry, however, electronics are now interactive. When my grandson gets into Toddlers Trifling, he can pop bubbles, touch images and hear their sounds, match colors and shapes, count objects, draw with his finger on the screen, and play memory matching games. So I wondered if the screen-time taboos included these interactive features. While there's no definitive research on this topic, I did find a couple of interviews about Sound Advice on Media at HealthyChildren.org.

Electronic media is here to stay...and will continue to grow. Our children are "wired" to live in our digitally-immersed culture. Even if infants and toddlers are not directly using electronics, they are surrounded by digital media in their homes. We parents and grandparents are using cell phones, computers, iPods, iPads and other tablets. Our children model what they see, so it is natural for a toddler to want to use the same electronic devices he sees his parents and grandparents using.

I liked the advice Dr Don Shifrin offered in his interview on Sound Advice on Media. He said that "parents are their children's guides through the digital landscape," and so they need to practice the three M's: Model behavior, Monitor their children and their activities, and Mediate to correct behavior if necessary.

Our children are more likely to mirror how we adults act than to do what we tell them to do. So we parents and grandparents need to MODEL the behaviors we want our children to mirror. This behavior includes using digital media. We need to ask ourselves if how and when we use digital media is appropriate for how our children will use the technology.

As our children mirror our behavior, we need to MONITOR that they are doing so appropriately. Children are naturally curious and not afraid to try new things. We need to watch over them to ensure that they are staying safe.

If our children begin to use technology inappropriately, we need to MEDIATE to correct their behavior. When mediating, it's important to remember that when we say "No" to something, our children are more likely to want to do that thing, so we need to explain why behavior is appropriate or not appropriate and offer positive re-direction as necessary.

As with anything else in our lives, we need to maintain a healthy balance of media use in our lives and the lives of our children. Interactive digital media can be fun and educational, but playing with pots and pans on the floor of the kitchen can be just as fun and valuable. We need to make sure our children have a healthy balance of intellectual stimulation, physical activity, social interaction, and spiritual inspiration no matter the media/toys with which they are playing.

[DankBlaniels]

TODDLERS AND ELECTRONICS PEOPLE

[DankBlaniels]

IT DOESNT GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS

[DankBlaniels]

OR MAYBE IT DOES

[DankBlaniels]

40APE GONNA NEED YOU TO CONFIRM IF IT GETS ANY BETTER THAN THIS

[Suicide King]

Premium content right here

[Hillbilly Jim]

toddlers will be taking jobs from us americans soon

[sʇןɐs ɥʇɐq ɥsıʞɹnʇ]

My 21-month-old grandson likes playing with our cell phones and iPods. He knows the buttons to push to turn them on. He swipes his finger across the screen to view different screens. He clicks on icons to access programs. He learned all this simply by watching us.

To keep him from inadvertently calling or texting people in our contact lists, my daughter and I have been searching for toddler apps to keep him occupied. When I did a search for Toddler Games Free on my cell phone and iPod, the list included lots of free apps. I downloaded just a couple - I could have spent days looking at them all. My current favorite is Toddlers Trifling, an Android app that offers several different options including matching colors, counting objects, touching images to hear their sounds, and touching bubbles to pop them.

Because of his curiosity and rapid learning on digital devices, I wondered what research had been done about toddlers and media, specifically interactive digital apps. What I found is that there's not much research out there on the effects of interactive digital apps on toddlers. There is decades-worth of research on the effects of TV/video media on toddlers, but that is primarily focused on sedentary, non-interactive activity.

All of the pediatric experts advise against allowing children under the age of 2 to have too much screen-time. Screen-time includes watching television, playing video games, going on a computer, and accessing programs on other electronic screens, such as cell phones, iPods, and tablets (like iPads.) But all of these experts are speaking from the research on the effects of non-interactive screen-time. As children watch TV or movies, play many video games, and do other screen activities, they are primarily sitting and watching or listening. Too much of this sedentary observation has negative effects on the brain, physical, and social development of children. So the recommendations are "No screens in bedrooms" and "Fire the electronic babysitter."

With the growing app (digital applications) industry, however, electronics are now interactive. When my grandson gets into Toddlers Trifling, he can pop bubbles, touch images and hear their sounds, match colors and shapes, count objects, draw with his finger on the screen, and play memory matching games. So I wondered if the screen-time taboos included these interactive features. While there's no definitive research on this topic, I did find a couple of interviews about Sound Advice on Media at HealthyChildren.org.

Electronic media is here to stay...and will continue to grow. Our children are "wired" to live in our digitally-immersed culture. Even if infants and toddlers are not directly using electronics, they are surrounded by digital media in their homes. We parents and grandparents are using cell phones, computers, iPods, iPads and other tablets. Our children model what they see, so it is natural for a toddler to want to use the same electronic devices he sees his parents and grandparents using.

I liked the advice Dr Don Shifrin offered in his interview on Sound Advice on Media. He said that "parents are their children's guides through the digital landscape," and so they need to practice the three M's: Model behavior, Monitor their children and their activities, and Mediate to correct behavior if necessary.

Our children are more likely to mirror how we adults act than to do what we tell them to do. So we parents and grandparents need to MODEL the behaviors we want our children to mirror. This behavior includes using digital media. We need to ask ourselves if how and when we use digital media is appropriate for how our children will use the technology.

As our children mirror our behavior, we need to MONITOR that they are doing so appropriately. Children are naturally curious and not afraid to try new things. We need to watch over them to ensure that they are staying safe.

If our children begin to use technology inappropriately, we need to MEDIATE to correct their behavior. When mediating, it's important to remember that when we say "No" to something, our children are more likely to want to do that thing, so we need to explain why behavior is appropriate or not appropriate and offer positive re-direction as necessary.

As with anything else in our lives, we need to maintain a healthy balance of media use in our lives and the lives of our children. Interactive digital media can be fun and educational, but playing with pots and pans on the floor of the kitchen can be just as fun and valuable. We need to make sure our children have a healthy balance of intellectual stimulation, physical activity, social interaction, and spiritual inspiration no matter the media/toys with which they are playing.

Begrudgingly read it just now aaaaaaand actually liked it. B- (not a low B, not bad overall)

kids improving by the minute.

[gay sex]

gettttttttttt him

[sʇןɐs ɥʇɐq ɥsıʞɹnʇ]

40APE GONNA NEED YOU TO CONFIRM IF IT GETS ANY BETTER THAN THIS

not gonna lie

I technically got my own forum out of this

so no, it doesn't get any better than this.

hell I have my own IST kinda sorta (it's wobbly and lethargic but still has a pulse) so I'm pretty cool

I got a kickdown laptop to tinker with yesterday as part of the bonus I got. pretty horrible overall, has 215mb of RAM and I can't even google the fucking thing cause it's got no labeling ANYWHERE.

yanked the cd (CD, NOT DVD-R, CD) and put in a dvd writing drive from my HP that died a fast death, popped in parted magic, she's purring impossibly enough

I am trying to swap power supplys to get my hp workin, or upgrade the memory and processor on this thing or SOMETHING

I JUST WANT WIRELESS FOR INTERNET AND PORN THAT'S IT ALL I'M ASKING HERE

[Hillbilly Jim]

im starting a reality show titled toddlers and tectonics
basically it is kids say the darndest things but we only ask them questions about tectonic plates

[sʇןɐs ɥʇɐq ɥsıʞɹnʇ]

Premium content right here

content just got more premium

word up

I will be up in SF with fam for cousins birthday prob 1-2 times this week, wish you were more down to earth Thello I'd buy you lunch

[sʇןɐs ɥʇɐq ɥsıʞɹnʇ]

im starting a reality show titled toddlers and tectonics
basically it is kids say the darndest things but we only ask them questions about tectonic plates

I literally know nothing about techtonic plates.

ask scooter I bet he knows something interesting

[sʇןɐs ɥʇɐq ɥsıʞɹnʇ]

you never know with the great Unknown, but it's better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it. Though I'm not sure how that could possibly make sense, if you _think_ about it

It's Pascal's faggot wager with a new shiny tricycle, nothing special. Of course it does not make sense right now as we have all this pesky sanity we're up to our necks in. It's not the sort of thing worth giving more than a sneer at unless you get up to your neck in christian insanity, a sub-culture that forces you to believe eternal damnation lies around the corner if you do not voluntarily believe stories that insult one's intelligence and logic and capacity for any kind of rational thought. If you don't believe God was born to a virgin and walked the earth 30 some-odd years before committing suicide, the ultimate sin, for the sole purpose of allowing humans to sin to their hearts repulsive content and still having an express pass directly into heaven no questions asked, well then you aren't good enough for heaven

Religion is so unbelievable that I couldnt make it up. The more pain we endure the faster we build their pyramids, isn't that right muffy?

Pascal's wager is worth barely a snicker in the face of sanity but for the damned, they suffer so much nauseating insanity that PW is literally a bastion of clear and level headed rational thought to them. A welcome reprieve to some, but that's their problem, not mine.

My mother literally raised me with such quaint pearls of quixotic wisdom passed down through the generations of mindless twits incapable of thinking up wisdom of their own. But then unlike your mother, my mother Knew Best. I know for a fact that this is true. Indeed but nothing changes, we can't change the past nor hold people responsible for mistakes made decades ago. What's your point?

She confided as much to me, on no less than hundreds of occasions. Before you offend, take pause vassal. Would you suggest my mother was lying to me?


I truly believe both thought and felt their decisions were for our respective best interests. Unless I am mistaken (and I hope I am not) Your mother was not raped repeatedly when she was growing up and I surmise such a horrifying reality might have skewed her sense of trust in people as well as warped her mind into needing more control at all times than is really necessary or even healthy.

I am not the first person in my household with BPD I have come to realize, though I was fortunate enough to be the first to find someone willing to elucidate it's existence. I have failed her in that regard, but the pieces are all out on the table for her to see, and if she chooses to do so she will realize in the same moment why she truly felt compelled to leave a stable relationship with a good man and a nice home to raise me with a surly vietnam veteran living at the time out of the back of a toyota pickup truck binge drinking the pain of lost friends away. It was his pain she wanted, for me, she deliberately sought out a person with enough seething hatred that she could count on the job being done right, and it was.

She needed to imprint herself onto me and instinctively realized when i was young that it wasn't happening and she had no idea why. If she were a bit brighter she might have put two and two together and instead of finding some loser to beat me into her imprinted nightmare of a dissociative Self she would have sought professional help and let my father do what he truly wanted to do, raise his Son.

The best thing I can do is see the Truth I always seek for what it is and not repeat mistakes made that likely go back several generations and thus tow humanity forward as best I am able. Did your mother know best? I'd say that's hard to refute as truth, but which one loved and loves either of us more than the other? That has an equally obvious answer as well.

I didn't think so. It's unfortunate for us both that only one conclusion can be garnered from your conceding the fact.

Your mother was a lying whore.

You've nothing to be jealous of, sharing your mothers affection is not harder on you than the years I spent alone and wishing I had people to connect with was and is for me. If anything you benefited a lot more as you were able to more easily adjust in public and make friends. I lived some 31 years or so almost completely alone at all times, and would you guess who the first person was that I connected with?

I would have traded my seemingly jubilant and warm, cozy home and family I grew up in for one with brothers and sisters in a fucking heartbeat, even if it meant I'd never be mom's #1, though that is something I cherish. It's a worthy tradeoff that might have resulted in my 20's not having been spent dj'ng at parties and knowing dozens of people well (so I thought) and yet feeling at all times a sense of disconnection, omni-present and yet, not real, not tangible at the same time. I literally spent my ENTIRE life seeking truth much like Neo and for much the same reason-being aware of a prison just out of reach of all my mental and physical capabilities.

I'm very sorry to hear that. I understand roti is a wonderful comfort food. Don't mention it, my thoughts and prayers are with you during this difficult and trying time for you. I really wish there was more I could do. You'll let me know, won't you? Of course you will.


You could probably be a bit less sarcastic and it never hurts to pray more. Just make sure you FEEL it, otherwise God will know you aren't sincere.

ironically not one single christian has ever asked themself while on his knees talking to air why it makes sense God knows your every thought and feeling and can gauge intent perfectly if YOU are talking to HIM, yet needs a Middle Man to communicate in the reverse direction.

SHocking really, in a very tragic way

Sharing suffering is what humans can be relied upon in this unreliable world of doublespeak and innuendo and post-deadline renegotiated terms and clarifications requested to aid the understanding of agreements long since passed their use-by date. Because, you see, I'm all about me and you are all about you. And because I'm Selfish, I don't share my suffering with you. And because you're selfish, you do.

We can agree to disagree, but I am right. With your way, everyone gets to lose!


It is impossible to disagree with Truth unless one chooses to not see it.

It feels good to be home.

[sʇןɐs ɥʇɐq ɥsıʞɹnʇ]

v----Try and keep up, old friend.-----^

Fact check please 408mike?

[sʇןɐs ɥʇɐq ɥsıʞɹnʇ]

I just realized- skatz has been making a man out of me.

That's what this has all been about, right from the minute I started posting here, hasn't it?

That was the last thing I swore I would never let happen, I would never get old.

But that's happened regardless, I am fucking old, and I can't stop getting older.

Supposing you are right Tine, it is about time I act like the man I have become regardless if I am ok with it or not.

I wasn't even aware this was happening, it must be my inner child that's been rebelling this whole time. *sigh* I really don't want to get old...is that so wrong?

[Suicide King]

content just got more premium

word up

I will be up in SF with fam for cousins birthday prob 1-2 times this week, wish you were more down to earth Thello I'd buy you lunch

you cant even afford cigarettes, how would you afford my expensive eating habits?

[sʇןɐs ɥʇɐq ɥsıʞɹnʇ]

you cant even afford cigarettes, how would you afford my expensive eating habits?

I surely can and do afford cigs.

Dude you drive a UPS truck how expensive can your tastes possibly be?

Also I am owed a birthday dinner or three by my wealthy aunt and she promised me dinner anywhere, I was going to redeem said dinner and take gay sex out to the french laundry or some michelin 4 star joint buuuuut he went and made the list unfortunately so right now I need a date.

You in?

[Suicide King]

Not in this lifetime ese

[sʇןɐs ɥʇɐq ɥsıʞɹnʇ]

Your loss "ese"

This would be like $150 for 2 people, no worries.

[Suicide King]

$150 meal doesn't buy my face back, ese'

[Suicide King]

also I understand that you are a San Jose rube. French Laundry literally takes months to get a reservation. If you think you can dip in there for lunch you are sadly mistaken.

[sʇןɐs ɥʇɐq ɥsıʞɹnʇ]

Bro $150 won't buy your face back what about my risks having to swoop you up in the damned ghetto? I bet you live near Hunter's Point get real with all the risk you will NOT be facing.

No clue about the wait times at FL, honest to God the whole thing started because I got curious one day about Tapper's av and said "Hmm, what the FUCK is a michelin star?" sooooo then I was puppy dog like in nature and figured I could get a belly rub from gaysex if I sounded like I knew something cool, and from there I've got a free dinner waiting for me if I can ever get shit straight and make it there.

You have a grill, an honest to God grill and you are the one worried about being seen with ME in public?

See you in the funny pages

[gay sex]

seriously thello why were you such a dick to mike

[gay sex]

also lol at us young goats like jim was in his 50s by 2012 but i was not even close to my thirties then WHAT A RUN

[Hillbilly Jim]

im starting a reality show titled toddlers and tectonics
basically it is kids say the darndest things but we only ask them questions about tectonic plates
new idea toddlers and technics
its toddlers being better djs than chaps

[Militant Quacks]

i'd say its even money at this point that at least one of mike and scooter are dead now lol

[Militant Quacks]

scooter killed by ghosts, mike killed by a bench grinder

[gay sex]

well skatz will honor their legacy with dvd copys of tombstone on each of their tombstones AS GOD INTENDED

[gay sex]

its literally how i want to go and then like a couple 3 cheesesteaks left for me from a good place 9 times a year

[gay sex]

and maybe bae reading me celebrity news in a heartfelt manner

[Militant Quacks]

its good to have goals gare

[popotu]

this is a very interesting topic

[blake]

this is a very interesting topic

:hof2

[anatine]

Bro $150 won't buy your face back


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