Landsteiner posted:Handing a five year old a LionChief remote is zero risk, compared with a $400-700 smartphone. It's not that a four year old cannot operate a smartphone. He or she is just more likely to bounce it off the concrete floor or get peanut butter or worse all over it. And frankly, I use my smartphone for email, texting and other stuff a good bit of the day, so I don't want to turn it over to a four year old. Call me lazy or ungenerous if you like.
My point is really that most of these young kids have already handled smart phones or tablets pretty extensively already. We bought our son a Kindle Fire for $49 when he was two and loaded it up with games and movies. He has never broken the tablet and I probably have dropped it more than he has.
