Preschooler asks for a tablet as a gift: buy or not?

A stationary computer, which is constantlyparents sit, and the strict father does not allow to draw a felt-tip pen on the monitor cheerful scribbles under pain of death, causes the child involuntary respect. It's almost a member of the family and to read it should be the same as a grandparent.

Another thing is a personal toy - a tablet,which from foolishness, from an excess of parental feelings or from ignorance was given to you by your parents. Children of preschool age are very poorly oriented in cash equivalents. They begin to realize the cost of the surrounding objects from the moment they are given the first pocket money, which can be spent on ice cream or pies in the school canteen. Hence the first aspect of the problem.

The practical side of the question

At the preschool age, the importance of the subject forthe child is determined not by its value, but by the current need and fascination. A wooden homemade pistol can be more valuable than a copy of a $ 100 machine bought in the store. The same applies to multimedia gadgets, which "good" dads and moms give their unintentional children for all holidays, including the New Year.

For a six-year-old child, a digital camera,a smartphone or a tablet we have chosen is a toy like a transformer or a 100 rubles machine. Know all the parents know about the amazing ability of children to break, lose and forget toys in the most unexpected places. However, this does not prevent them from stepping on the same rake with enviable consistency.

Many have already gone through the stages of broken gamingattachments, lost mobile phones and spoiled portable DVD players. Moreover, blaming the child for irresponsible attitude to expensive equipment in this situation is meaningless. If he left an expensive electronic toy in the dacha in the rain, or accidentally dropped it in a barrel of water, what a demand it is.

There he also forgot his favorite saber, he also drowneda loyal soldier with a car. Therefore, before you give the preschooler a tablet, try to explain to him as clearly as possible that it is the same important member of the family, the same dear friend as Papin's computer. That it is not just a toy, but the most indispensable thing for him in life. And this is the second aspect.

The pedagogical side of the question

We have already said more than once thatchild to modern information technology should be from childhood. In what form will this introduction take place in the virtual world, depends only on the parents of the preschool child. That's just bad luck, the introduction of this should occur under the strict guidance and vigilant attention of the donors of multimedia technology in all its manifestations.

If you did not spare money and gave it to a preschooleron the New Year's tablet, then be kind enough to organize for him a "course of a young fighter." It is best to download a complete set of children's developing and entertaining games, cartoons, movies and bookmark the links to the sites you like (so far only for you). It is necessary to explain not only the purpose of icons, but also navigation in the Internet space.

The process is certainly labor intensive, interesting forboth sides, but to throw it after the first children's success in the management of a new electronic friend is not worth it. These friends do not always teach good, kind, light. Try to bring the game and Internet communication between your child and a small computer in the sphere of the difficult school years that are coming to him.

Torturing you with advice on what to leave inaccessible to the child virtual environment, we will not, smart parents, and so everyone understands. It is more important that your unreasonable child be convinced that the tablet that was given to him is not just a one-time toy, but the adviser, satellite and assistant, who in this or another form will accompany him all his life. And nowhere you can not get by. Time is.

Ethical view of the problem

All children, especially at the age of 4-7 years, are verylike to brag to their friends (and this, as a rule, their kindergarten colleagues) with their new clothes. More often than not, expensive gifts, which can include tablets, cause comrades in pre-school education first envy, and then a sharp dislike.

A computer is not a ball, play itcollectively it is impossible. To buy your child such a toy can not afford everything, so it is psychologically important to teach him to use modestly what his parents gave him. These are the issues of upbringing, which in each family are decided in their own way.

The answer to the question put in the title can beto formulate this: if you have the necessary, free financial means, you know what your child will do with the technique given to him and understand how you can help him in mastering the information space, then, without hesitation, buy your preschooler a personal outlet into the big world of the Internet in the first tablet in his life.

Author: Katerina Sergeenko