Mom complains that her 2-year-old can't properly use an iPad yet: 'My 4-year-old has always used a tablet for games and occasional tv time and has never problems'

Before you become a parent, you have a lot of pie-in-the-sky ideas about how you'll raise your future children. Those ideas might include eliminating screen time entirely or not allowing them to access social media until they're 18. However, once you actually have kids, you realize why parents let them play on their iPads for 8-hour car rides. It's not easy to keep a kid entertained for 14 hours a day every day, and sometimes you have to do things that go against the leading psychological studies. 

Many parents use an iPad as a tool to occupy their kids, allowing them to step away from supervising so they can do dishes for 20 minutes a day. Some purists might not think that's acceptable, but it's certainly better than letting your kid spend every moment on an iPad when they're bored. Kids need the skills that come with playing with objects with their hands, and using a tablet for all hours of the day doesn't allow them to be creative or ingenious. Considering how easy it is for anyone, child or adult, to become addicted to their devices, parents should be grateful if their little tykes choose to forgo the technology for something more hands-on.

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