Thread: What are your thoughts on young children playing on iPads/other electronic tablets
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Old 08-11-2012, 10:49 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by wyndslash View Post
i wonder if there is a cultural aspect to it as well. My family always comments on the occasional baby with iPad/tablet/iThingy whenever we go out, and their comments almost always lean towards criticism for the mother/nanny/caretaker.
I'm guessing, from what you say, that the fathers aren't copping this bystander judgement? Sheesh. Children get impatient and grumpy in public - mothers get sneered at. Children are happily occupied - mothers get sneered at.
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