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Not necessary

Submitted by Anhata on Wed, 08/15/2007 - 7:39pm.

Two year olds need to learn experientially, not passively. Television and PC games are passive/observational activities. While I'm not completely anti-TV or PC, I don't think you need to introduce children to academic activities in those mediums until elementary school age at the earliest. Right now a two year old is laying down the foundation for learning. Moving three dimensional objects in space. Pouring or dumping. Stacking up and knocking down. Developmentally, I think PC learning games are innappropriate for pre school. By the age of six or seven is soon enough to introduce the computer. If he's anything like the kids I know, it'll be all his folks can do to keep him OFF the computer once he's a teenager, let him have trucks, sand, building blocks, and bouncing balls at this age.

Anhata
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