What age for a DS for DD?

[hillbilly]

I mean the game, not another child

DD is 5. One the one hand I think she is too young but on the other she has played on DH's phone a bit and is very interested in memory games, maths and drawing games and I wonder if it was limited to perhaps 10 minutes at a time a few times a week whether that would be ok.

My ds age 4 loves playing on my sisters one. I have not got him one but he gets a lot of enjoyment out of my sisters, so if you are happy to get one I think she will love it

DD says 6

We didnt allow one until last christmas when DS was almost 8. He had a playstation but we tried to encourage the versions of Leapfrog and V Tech Handheld games for older DCs with a more educational slant for as long as we could until he wore us down to little tiny stumps and we crumbled and gave in

DD got hers for her 8th birthday.

DS1 is currently waiting for his 8th birthday before he is allowed his.

I got my DDs their when they were 5 and 7. I didn't want to go down the road of getting one for the one and making the other one wait 2 years, flame me for keeping the peace . Use is strictly rationed - weekends only afer homework has been done, and restricted during holidays too. (I find that 'forgetting' to recharge them works wonders)
As long as you control what games they play and how much they use it, I don't see it as a huge issue. There are a lot of very suitable games for very young children around, educational ones too.

There is no set age for them, its whatever you feel comfortable with.

The only thing I would say is to think in advance your rules about play over them - when, where, how long for etc and make that clear from the start.

Both my DDs have got them (they're 6 and 3), but our rule is that they do not play with them in the house. So they play with them in the car, waiting for the other child's lesson, waiting whilst I have my eyebrows done and so on. We find that this limited usage keeps the DS special, enjoyable and means that they never play with them for extended periods of time. It works for us.

DDs also quite like 'educational' games. DD1s favourite game is the junior brain trainer, but she has also got a maths 'make 10' one, and some other educational games. It doesn't have to be dead time.

Yes I can see that there will be issues with her DB who is only just 3 and will also want to play on it. Maybe we can get something similar for him but more like what you mentioned Fooffypoof and they they would both be happy. I might even look into alternatives for her.

DD, Now 9.6 has had hers a couple of years. TBH, she isn't that fussed by it. The first couple of days she was rapt, but now she doesn't even know where she last had it