Choosing a handheld device for your children

  

Date Posted: 8/11/2012 1:36:30 PM

Posted By: Razen  Membership Level: Gold  Total Points: 3454

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TECHNOLOGY FOR YOUR CHILD; CHOOSING THE RIGHT TABLET
Your child is your most precious asset. How you raise your child, the items you buy for him/her determines who he might possibly become. Technology for you and your child depends mostly on the digital life outside the walls of your house, his/her school, the friends and above all, the interest they put in it. Its always advisable not to leave your child to decide on matters concerning, how, where and when to buy an electronic gadget. Phones, tablets, ipods and other devices. Tablets can hold the whole world inside them and believe, it can hold the worst and the best.

The applications, the games, the websites, the themes etc all determine what your child can do with it. Content protective pre-installed and third party software all determine the functionality, the privacy and the information your child can siphon. Children can get the worst if allowed to, and so can they get the best if given the opportunity. If you have to buy a tablet pc for your child, then you have to go for the best in the first place. High random access memory (RAM), high internal memory and high resolution. The tablet should support adobe flash, either in built or downloadable to enhance gaming, movie streaming and video conferencing. The best gives the best and so do the counterpart. Tablets should come with accessories such as chargers, had phones, manual, memory card and the usb data cable.

In times when you have to buy it for educational purposes, ensure it is made for students. This covers you from the hustle of having to install firewall, content protectors and site blockers. The developers had in mind that the privacy of your child is in safe hands. Moreover, when buying such items you

only need to set a password, input the filter key
words and websites and you are good to go.

Tablets are world on hands, both the world of sinfulness and the world of goodness. Again, all this depends on you. Try talking to youe child about the good and the bad. Make them go for the best. You can get them to promise you that they won''t download, access or view pornographic content when you buy them electronic gadgets. They will.

There is one more thing you ought to be alert of. Electronic handheld devices are additive and can take your child's life to a form of chaos. Create them a guideline. Show them how organised you are. You go to work, you go to the gym, you visit a place and you finally take time to read news, view emails, chat and occasionally play a game or two via the tablet. Good examples are gradually copied by your child. Ask them to go for a past paper online, view bible movies and play a game or chat. Not all trees produce timber, some produce firewood and equally do good. Your advice might not go 100% but that little they harness makes them learn the rest.

In one way or the other, your child get to grasp the way round the tablet and possibly know it better than you do.

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