[feralchimp]

> don't any other people here think 2-year-old kids shouldn't be playing iPad games at all? > My own kid won't be here for a few more months, so I'm not preaching; just honestly asking. > Shouldn't kids of that age, instead of learning in-game physics, be learning real physics? Like with balls, marbles, and blocks, running and falling down, and not with animated honeypots and flying unicorns?

You are in fact preaching, just not from direct experience raising children.

Please do not give your future 2-year-old marbles to learn physics with. Choking hazard. Harder to swallow an iPad.

[pbhjpbhj]

Our former 2 year-old and current two year-old have neither choked on their marbles. Why? Supervision. You play with your kids and then you can stop them doing stupid things that are going to cause them high-level harm.

The hard part I find is letting them hurt themselves as part of their learning.

Indeed our 2 year-old just used a kitchen knife (about as long as his forearm) for the first time a couple of weeks ago to chop the potatoes he peeled. Close supervision.

"He could swallow a marble", well yes, he could bash his brother's head in with the corner of an iPad, get hit by a meteorite, run in to a wall, drown himself in the toilet, etc..

[brianobush]

No he isn't preaching, just stating common sense.

If you supervise your children, they won't swallow marbles or anything else. There are many vendors of wood toys (usually European) that are meant for small children. An ipad, is in the same realm as TV -- not meant for small kids.

[scarfwindellin]

two year olds are great with marbles when supervised. most of them have long abandoned the idea of putting non-food into their mouths by this age, and their development thrives on supervision and interaction regardless of what materials they are exploring.

[tripzilch]

> Please do not give your future 2-year-old marbles to learn physics with. Choking hazard.

You're aware that they put CHOKING HAZARD labels on things not because those things should be kept away from children at all times, but to alert inattentive parents to supervise their children?

The CHOKING HAZARD is not an intrinsic property of the object, but rather of the situation.

[beatle]

> Please do not give your future 2-year-old marbles to learn physics with. Choking hazard. Harder to swallow an iPad.

I don't care if I get down voted but this made me laugh so hard.