13.12.2013 09:20 Uhr, Quelle: Macworld UK

Christmas controversy: Are iPads bad for kids?

When my son was less than a year old, he began crying one afternoon and would not stop. Hed been fed; his diaper was clean. Try as I might, I couldnt discern the source of his stressnor could I get him to pipe down.So I took my brand new iPhone 3G, turned it on, and put it in his stroller with him. Complete silence ensued. It was glorious.It also mightve been a moment of truly awful parenting.With Christmas on the way, and the iPad selling like proverbial hotcakes, controversy has sprung up over whether children should be giving the electronic tablets to their children as gifts. A focal point of the debate: Fisher-Prices $80 Newborn-to-Toddler Apptivity Seat for iPad, which displays the iPad right in front of a very young (and mostly immobile) child.Babies thrive when theyre talked to, played with, and heldnot when theyre alone with a screen, grumbled Dr. Susan Linn, director of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, which has petitioned Fisher-Price to recall the product

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