Hi,
My DS is 3 next month but is quite able at number and reading-related things and catches on quite quickly. I would sometimes put CBeebies on the laptop for him and I would press the buttons and he would tell me what to press (i.e. a group activity). It became apparent that he'd been watching me and while I was bfing our newborn he was mostly controlling it himself (things like Alphablocks games, Big and Small games etc). Great, I thought, oh how clever...etc!
However, it is starting to go a bit pear-shaped as although he is very good when he's on it (I only let him sometimes, for about 20 minutes, usually while I am getting the baby to sleep as he is quite a noisy child and will go racing up and down the room making noise otherwise) he is very rude about getting off the thing, and will claim it is his computer and it's "horribled" if I am checking an email or even looking up an address before setting off somewhere. Yesterday he threw a tantrum because I needed to look at bus timetables to get to a music group with him and was pulling my fingers out of the way and getting angry. He is at the moment having time out for a similar 'offense' after he threw an inflatable toy at me in frustration when I wanted to check if someone had bought my item on ebay yet.
Any suggestions? I was thinking of removing the laptop completely during the day, but I sometimes do need it to look things up or just to relax for a few minutes while he is playing with something else.