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Apple disables iPad for 48 years after toddler runs amok

MachDiamond Silver badge

Lock up the soap

Most parents with a new child in the house will go to the DIY store and load up on child locks for cabinets and drawers so toddlers can't drink the drain cleaner or play with mom's good scissors. What they don't do is stop and consider how dangerous a phondleslab can be. Developmental scientists are seeing a trend in kids that are growing up with flat screen devices. They aren't gaining fine motor skills. They are having trouble with perception as they are focussed too much on a 2-D screen instead of a 3D world. They are also not picking up proper social skills by playing with other kids and adults.

It's a good thing that daddy's expensive toy is bricked. Maybe he'll wake up and keep something that dangerous away from his children before they get into some real trouble forwarding bits of mail to random people in the address book or naughty pictures they find to mummy.

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