I’m participating in a contest at Best Kids Apps, a blog about iPhone apps for kids, for a chance to win an iPad. Given our daughter's amazing facility with my iPhone (she expertly navigates to her favorite apps and she's not even two!), the iPad seems like smart tech tool that would receive a lot of attention in the house.
For whatever reason, I've kept the original iPhone box and it sits on a shelf in our room. The smallish box features a facsimile of the iPhone on the top and it is accessible when our daughter is climbing around in our bed. She fancies it her phone and we find it very funny when she picks it up and starts talking on it. Conversations usually sound like this, " 'LO!! Shoes! Baby, Da-Da, 'Bye!" Sometimes she even pushes the on button, then tries to scroll through the screens to get to her apps screen or funnier still, holds it up and says "cheese!" as she tries to snap our photo. It is pretty comical to watch and I can only imagine what goes through her head as she does this.
On my real iPhone, I keep all of the baby apps on one screen. She loves Pet The Animals, Baby Babble and Hello Kitty Parachute Paradise. But she is clever (and the GUI is so intuitive) and also routinely finds the non-baby apps like the iPhone Camera and Photos. I'm fascinated that she can scroll through the hundreds of photos to find and watch her favorite home videos.
Because my iPhone is so essential to managing my life at this point, I do worry that she will inadvertently erase some of my essential apps which is why I keep screen shot captures of my app screens in my Photos so I can easily reinstall apps that go missing. If our family had an iPad I think we'd use it to watch Sesame Street videos (we don't have TV), play with educational apps and bring it with us on trips to access email and keep up on Facebook since it is more portable, and in some ways more useful than a laptop.
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