My mother's ipad

My mother is up with us for two weeks, ending Tuesday. She has an ipad that my father got for free from work in some drawing thing they did for their employee's. My 17 month old daughter has been quite entertained using it. She “constantly” is jumping around through apps and scarcely stays on one app. My mother kept trying to keep her on a fish game, and she did sorta got the gist of it when she would actually “cooperate” and not try to leave the app.

It was kinda fun to use the ipad to read scriptures, but I currently still much prefer a hardcopy of the scriptures. For example, when trying to be on the scriptures at church, our 17 month old daughter kept touching the ipad, leaving the app and going wherever on the ipad, making staying on the scriptures pretty hopeless. Letting a baby have access to an ipad takes constant close babysitting, making sure she doesn't start doing anything that would cause a problem. With a hardcopy, generally staying “on the page” is usually much easier, and if difficult, we can easily have an extra copy to give her (thankfully, we have little worry of our daughter ripping pages so far). I also like to not be reliant on electricity to be able to read scriptures. Call me paranoid if you like, but if the world goes crazy and we lose electricity, I still want to have access to my scriptures.

And just to try to be clear; I am not saying I think ipad's are bad. Anyways, later. :)