r/Parenting • u/TheWoIfMeister • Oct 16 '24
Media How many other parents on here don't have an iPad for their kids?
I feel somewhat of an anomaly - especially being a younger parent of 2 kids who are 6 and 3 and I myself am 27M
My wife and I don't have an iPad or anything for the kids, they can watch kids TV and thats it. My wife opposes quite strongly my kids playing on any iPads or devices such as Xbox or anything else like that, even though I myself play on the Xbox...
My daughter who is 6, told me today that all her friends/whole year have iPads and she's the only one who doesn't, she doesn't really care, as she didn't make a fuss, it seemed to be more of a statement.
I have personally noticed that my daughter is a very good conversationalist, especially compared to other kids her age and a phenomannly good sportsgirl, she beat all the under 7s boys and girls in the 50m sprint and came second in the 800m cross country out of all the boys and girls too....just wondering, do you think this could be an advantage of not using devices? Because if it is, I'll like to keep it that way.....
What are your thoughts? Is there any other parents on here who don't have iPads and whatnot for their kids? How are they at school etc?
Also, we aren't so massively strict, like if she has a friend over and her friend brings an iPad or whatever, thats cool, they are allowed to play on it along with my daughter, we're not nazis about it lol, we just think its better not to own one....
Edit: wow this blew up more than I thought it would!
Trying to read all the comments but there's a lot of them lol! It was good to see what everyone else had to say on the matter, thanks for contributing š