Opinion

Editor's view - Keep taking the tablets?

Many of us will have been delighted to have received a tablet for
Christmas.

How useful, how entertaining, how multi-purpose they are! Tablet ownership has more than doubled in the past few years.

Yet when it comes to young children using iPads, and their easy acquisition of the skills needed, there is a great deal of unease. A very thought-provoking feature in the Guardian last week prompted a huge number of comments for and against iPad use - all filed on a computer or mobile device, of course.

Nursery and childminders are also divided on whether to provide them for pre-school children, as our story 'Concerns raised over impact of tablets on posture' on 2 December showed.

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