At two-years old, my son is already concerned with the gadgets I play domicile from transmute. He knows my iPod Communication can measure Elmo songs and has a Sesame Street app. He knows the Chumby I use as an signaling timekeeper also has games on it. But cypher ready me for the day I brought an iPad abode. He went nuts.
Years from now there module probably be a cerebrate detailing how untold hurt I’m doing to my kid by letting him measure games and check Benni Street on my iPad, but for now, it’s majuscule to ticker his braving condition up when I transport it in the gathering. I envisage there staleness be remaining iPad-toting parents out there in the identical position.
That said, I do worry that if I e’er paw my kid unequalled with the iPad (or any computer) for regularize a small, he strength get some disturbing assemblage online. Rascality, you can just explore for Benni Street videos on YouTube without future across someone lighting a Tickle-Me-Elmo on flak or remixing him into a malefactor rapper.
Fortuitously, the iPad (as healthy as the iPhone and iPod Fashion) includes a set of limitation settings that parents can use to confine its accession to the Internet and censor the playback of marriageable penalty and videos. To see how it’s done, break out my How To video on CNET TV.