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ProfCrash · 03-28-2013, 08:23 AM

My nieces and nephews use e-readers and read regular books. They all like the e-readers and prefer reading on them. When my son is old enough, he will have an e-reader.

My son is 9 months old, he reads board books. And by reads I mean he enjoys flipping the pages and eating the books, although the eating has greatly dminished. We try and point to things in the book and comment on color, the sun, moon, birds and the like. Soon enough he will start pointing to thing in the books when we ask him to. We ask now, but he just turns the page.

There is a place for e-readers and kids. I am doing my best to limit his exposure to screens at this age. I want to limit TV time, iPad time, and the like. There are reports that say that those things effect a childs persception and attention from 0-3 years old.

I don't see him using an e-reader for many years. It has nothing to do with enjoying paper or teaching him to love the page but more that the books that he needs and how he will treat them tends toward the paper book. He is going to be hard on books for a while and I would rather replace a book then an e-reader.

03-28-2013, 08:23 AM	#5
ProfCrash Tea Enthusiast Posts: 8,554 Karma: 75384937 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Somewhere in the USA Device: Kindle1, Kindle DX Graphite, K3 3G, IPad 3, PW2	My nieces and nephews use e-readers and read regular books. They all like the e-readers and prefer reading on them. When my son is old enough, he will have an e-reader. My son is 9 months old, he reads board books. And by reads I mean he enjoys flipping the pages and eating the books, although the eating has greatly dminished. We try and point to things in the book and comment on color, the sun, moon, birds and the like. Soon enough he will start pointing to thing in the books when we ask him to. We ask now, but he just turns the page. There is a place for e-readers and kids. I am doing my best to limit his exposure to screens at this age. I want to limit TV time, iPad time, and the like. There are reports that say that those things effect a childs persception and attention from 0-3 years old. I don't see him using an e-reader for many years. It has nothing to do with enjoying paper or teaching him to love the page but more that the books that he needs and how he will treat them tends toward the paper book. He is going to be hard on books for a while and I would rather replace a book then an e-reader.