Hello all,
My husband and I are looking into buying our son a computer (possibly a pad) and would like some input on what to get him -- or if we should get him a computer at all. Our main goals are to introduce him to computers and provide him a way to write (since his motor skills don't allow that yet, and he loves typing on our computers).
To give you a bit of background, he's 34 months old, can read (Frog and Toad books without difficulty, for instance), can count with 1-1 correspondence up to at least eight (at which point he wandered away), can do a little simple addition and subtraction, and can spell out some words using the letters on the fridge ("milk" and "ear" for example).
Has anyone else bought their young child a computer? If so, what issues did you consider (and which did you discover after the fact)? What do you like and dislike about it? Is durability an issue? Or is a computer at this point simply a mistake?
Thanks for any input!
