To love this buggy!

[curiousgeorgie]

DH got a delivery this morning....

My DD2 is a nightmare. She screams and cries if I put her in the pram, she's impossible to pacify in a restaurant or shopping etc...

So DH says this is the solution.

She's been quiet for 15 minutes!!!!

What did she recommend and why?

Because it was for my DD. So personal experience I suppose.

You can read about the best time to wean a child, but know what you did with your first and stick to that, it's kind of like that I suppose.

The iPad was absolutely essential for my daughter, it still is. And she has actually got so much out of it, I wish I knew of a way to prove this to you on a thread, because I really mean it.

Chubby - I'm not going into that on here, if you want to PM me you can.

How was it essential?

OP you did know how this would go when you started the thread right?

But if the iPad was specially recommended for your dd because of her particular needs why would you do the same thing with your second who doesn't have those needs?

I honestly think you are looking to the iPad as if it's the best thing since sliced bread, and it isn't. Have you actually looked at research for the negative impacts on under two's?

Essential?

Bolleux. This is a wind up

TheFairyCaravan - because she was so upset and frustrated by her inability to move, it was like she needed something for her brain to work on. She had all kinds of educational apps and drawing ones because she didn't have the strength the make a mark on paper with a pen. I think they're amazing.

It isn't a wind up. And it is essential for her. She dropped mine a few months ago (a huge accident) and we had to go out and get another one. I would call that essential.

Oh dear op you are getting a hard time aren't you.

The screen time thing in small children is hard to pin down. Aree children exposed to more screen time because their parents do not interact ?ith them so much, possibly due to other issues going on, which results in their development being slower than expected, or is it merely the introduction of screens which caused the effect. It is almost impossible to separate out effectively. I would suspect the first is correct - that limited use of screens is not an issue where plenty of other stimuli and interactions are provided, the child is ll nourished, has plenty of sleep etc.

I think the buggy is fab. I can see it being useful for queues (I'm a stickler on no screens at meal times, it's just a habit I didn't want to introduce) and of occasionally use, I think its not a problem.

It's a lovely colour as well and your baby is gorgeous.

Nick - I don't need to. I'm happy with my own view on them and how brilliant they've been for my DD1, DD2 is suitably distracted by one when I need her to be, that's good enough for me.

Oh yes and there are plenty of apps designed for. Educational purposes, its an emerging literacy and with controlled use can certainly contribute to a child's development.

They used to think books were bad for your brain you know (especially if you were female)

RJ - thanks, I'm hoping for short queues regardless

So you don't want to make informed decisions but will maintain you are totally right? Especially when you rely on it so heavily. That's a totally bizarre attitude to have.

How sad :(

Why would I want to read about how bad it is when I've been told the opposite by the people we've had to see? I've been informed and I'm confident in my decision.

MarnieRose - why is it sad? I really don't get it.

It isn't a wind up. And it is essential for her. She dropped mine a few months ago (a huge accident) and we had to go out and get another one. I would call that essential.

Ah, I think you have misunderstood the meaning of the word 'essential'.

Tablets have been existence for less than a decade (ish?) after all, so it is well within the career-memory of all HCP how to manage all health conditions without them.

Maybe you meant "really helpful/useful"? and "important for the safety of my own tablet"?

Good luck with it all anyhow .

So useful and helpful, not essential! If you didn't have one you would have found other activities to occupy her.

This is a good and balanced article

healthland.time.com/2011/10/20/no-screen-time-for-2-year-olds-do-ipad-apps-count/

The no under twos recommendation is based on studies around tv which is a passive activity and the questions are still not totally answered as to whether using interactive technologies are similar but the indications are where they are used to supplement or generate interactions with others they may enhance development.

Usual caveats about use before bed time disrupting brain activity etc. of course applies.

No, I understand the meaning of the word. It is essential for us. My DD1 needs it. That's just a fact.

Oh I give up. Op, pap your kids in front of them all day long for all I care but honestly I would respect your parenting decisions more if you at least looked into the information that was out there rather than dismissing facts.

But you clearly know better.

Screen time ? Negative impact ? load of bollocks in my opinion, my eldest is in his early twenties now , excellent GScEs, ABB A levels and then a first at uni, is a well rounded , intelligent happy guy who also happened to have spent many an hour as an impossible, screaming, head banging monster toddler whose mum could nothing more than zone him out in from of the TV.

We do what we have to do, they are all different, my 2 year old now rarely watches TV iPad etc because it bores him. Don't worry too much OP xx

And just to add said child happens to be here , he reports now when he is stressed , upset etc etc he often zones out in front of a screen, shock slightly preferable to alcohol! drugs etc lol sorry just my opinion , I'm off to buy me a hooded iPad buggy for my 13 year old now ;) x

No, I understand the meaning of the word. It is essential for us. My DD1 needs it. That's just a fact.

Oh dear.

What do you imagine those of us whose DC have SN did in the 70s, 80s and 90s OP?

Do you think our DC were deprived of 'essentials'?

Buy a dictionary.