How to Lock Down Your iPad For Kids

iPads and iPhones give you control over how your kids can use your devices. You can quickly lock your device to a certain app before handing it over or lock down an entire device with comprehensive parental controls.

Babysitter’s dream: An iPad case for babies

Busy moms and dads who have no time to read to or talk with their infants can now belt the tykes into a baby seat just inches from an iPad – and let the computer take care of those pesky parental duties.

iPads help late-speaking children with autism develop language

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The iPad you use to check email, watch episodes of Mad Men and play Words with Friends may hold the key to enabling children with autism spectrum disorders to express themselves through speech.

How to Keep Your Child Safe on the iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad

Apple has sold well over 600 Million iOS devices so far. That figure includes the iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad combined.

Finally, A Robot That Will Talk To Your Children So You Don't Have To

You work really hard all day, so when you're finally back at home, all you want to do is kick back with your iPad and play with some apps.

SafeGrip Case Kidproofs The iPad Mini

If there’s one thing I hate more than kids, it’s the thought of their filthy hands touching my pristine gadgets. Worse, these walking fetuses have brains so undeveloped that they will drop something the second they stop thinking about it.

Apple OKs pre-teen iTunes accounts upon school request

Apple is allowing children under 13 to have their own iTunes accounts as part of a new push coming later this year to increase the use of its iPad in education.

iTunes Store Customers Notified of Settlement in In-App Purchase Lawsuit

As noted by 9to5Mac, iTunes Store customers have begun receiving emails notifying them of the settlement of a class action lawsuit related to unauthorized In-App Purchases made by children.

Surgery Patients Embrace New-Age Wonder Drug: The iPad

When 10-year-old Charlie Cagann went to Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago to have his adenoid removed, he was nervous about the surgery. But when he arrived at the hospital, there was something to help take his mind off things: an iPad.

The iPad Cleverly Detects This Connected Picture Book's Page Turns

The arrival of the iPad had many predicting the device would wipe out books, magazine, and newspapers once and for all. But their doomsday predictions were a little premature, and as the folks at engageLab demonstrate with this fantastic conceptual app, tablets and books can live in perfect harmony.

App Maker Kidaptive Debuts “Parent’s Pad,” A New Way To Track A Child’s Educational Development On iPad

Parents of preschoolers can finally let go of “iPad guilt” – the term that refers to that terrible feeling you get when you use the iPad as babysitter.

Can These iPad Apps Teach Your Kid to Code?

The pillars of elementary education in the U.S. — reading, writing, math — have remained the same for a long time. Now another skill set is increasingly coming into focus: Computer programming.

How to Block Porn on Your iPhone, iPad & iPod Touch

  

Thinking about letting your child or teen borrow your iPad or giving them your hand me down iPhone? Just like with a PC, your big concerns is probably keeping them away from inappropriate content.

Bitsboard – A Super iPad App for Spelling and Reading Practice

Bitsboard is a great iPad app for young students that Joanne Villis recommended to me. Bitsboard is a free iPad app that provides word games, memory games, spelling games, and reading practice activities, and dozens of other activities in one place.

Girl, 4, treated for iPad addiction

A four-year-old girl is being treated for iPad addiction in the UK.

A GIRL aged four is having psychiatric treatment after becoming Britain's youngest known iPad addict.

iPad 'free' games: parents must know their controls on their devices, says Office of Fair Trading

Cavendish Elithorn from the Office of Fair Trading says they want to ensure that children are not being pressured or encouraged to pay for content in free games following concerns that users can run up substantial costs.

Wacom Releases New 1.85-Inch Bamboo Stylus Mini

Wacom today released a smaller version of its popular Bamboo Stylus, the Bamboo Stylus mini, which offers up a thicker barrel with a much shorter 1.85-inch size.

How to child-proof your iPad or iPhone

It's easy to lock an iOS device down

Child-bearing Apple iOS device owners do at least have one feature that they can proudly boast is better than their Android counterparts and that's the Restriction system that helps make your Apple iPad or iPhone kid friendly.

Bookboard Launches App To Encourage Children To Read More By Limiting Their Choices

Bookboard, a subscription service for children’s books, has launched its iPad app, which gives parents and children streaming access to its library of books. Like many kids apps startups, three former Adobe employees, Mike Fitzpatrick, Nigel Pegg, and Fang Chang, founded the company out of personal needs as parents. They came together to develop a service that encourages and develops a child’s love of reading.

Best Apps for 5 Year Olds

The KinderTown review team of early childhood education experts, parents, and kids spent the last month reviewing their favorite educational apps for 5 year olds. They’ve narrowed it down to their favorite four apps in various educational categories including math and language. The full list is below.