Advanced in numeracy ? My three daughters could count up to 20 in french (parents language) spanish (country language) and english (courtesy of the lovely american student from daycare) by two YO. And it is not me humble bragging. Actually, all the other kids at daycare could as well (removing the french maybe). You just can´t be a lazy parent and expect an happy outcome.

All of the things their 'advanced' child learned from the iPad could also be taught by the parents if they weren't lazy and without all of the lasting effects of staring at a screen hours for hours every day.

It is not good, have a friend who is a child psychologist and the stuff he would say, broadly so not specific, about how it effects kids is crazy. My nieces and nephews are only know getting video games and kid friendly tablets and they are all 7 yr old+

We were too poor to have Internet when my daughter was a baby. We went to the library and rented movies. I am so grateful for this. We didn't get wifi or streaming even once we were able to afford it until covid happened and we were required to have it. My daughter was 8 by that time. She was obsessed with it immediately and wanted to be on it all day. She got rid of most of her toys when she was 9 and it has made her grow up very fast I feel and it's very hard to get control over it now. Fortunately she is coming back around to doing other things (she Is 10 now) and uses YouTube to get ideas for drawing and projects. She plays roblox quite a bit but also has been wanting to watch movies more lately with me instead and now that it is summer would rather be swimming all day. I don't know what kind of child she would have been if she had access to wifi enabled devices since baby hood. I am grateful she did not and if we had another child I would make the same choice.

Beats my niece's bff's first kid. Two month old and already got a iPad. Pad didn't even last a month. She is now 5 and overweight like a beach ball. Great girl but the spoiling will one day hurt her so much that she will blame her parents forever.

It’s okay with an hour or two, to get them to quiet down or something, but I think any more than that isn’t good for them. It can be a different story when they’re older (teen), but even then you shouldn’t do too much (and I say this as a screen addicted teen.) If they get used to it, it’ll be harder to stop and the screen will be the only thing they want to do.

Every brain, every person/child is different. For this child, this may be the best thing. The bottom line, is there is no way to predict. I would say that as long as the child has other activities and isn't solely on the iPad, then it should b fine. People forget that our lives r going more to technology, and that the younger generations r starting earlier and earlier. How young were kids getting video game systems? People said the same things, but for some people, it's helped them develop in different ways and become successful