Ah my boys are funny. There was a day when they were happy to play "games" on the calculator.
This past week we had Amber and Aaron over to our home while they were visiting from Canada. Uncle Aaron introduced Erik and Nate to his Blackberry Playbook and they immediately fell in love with the games they could play.
The next day they informed they were going to pool their money and hopefully buy one in the next year for around $500.
This was a week ago and all last week Erik has been researching and gathering opinions on what they should buy. This is what he came up with:
A Wintec FileMate Light 7" Touchscreen Internet Entertainment Tablet with Enhanced Resistive Touch Technology, Built-In camera, GPS and Bluetooth supported, Expansion Interfaces up to 32 GB and Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS Ready
I've never heard of Wintec and I'm sure he settled on it because it is so much cheaper than he originally was going to spend to get a Playbook.
I personally don't want him to have one right now but realize that if this is a goal he really wants to work towards, I don't want to be a dream killer and we will just have to put rules on it if he does end up getting something.
That said, I really don't think it will happen. Reality will kill the dream and Erik and Nate will soon forget about it once school starts and they realize how long it will take to save up that kind of money.
It has been kind of fun to watch them this week and it has been a good learning experience for them to research and really decide what they want to get instead of buying impulsively. It's good to give kids choices with money. I would rather they make a $100 mistake now than a $10,000 mistake later when the responsibility is a little bigger.
I personally don't want him to have one right now but realize that if this is a goal he really wants to work towards, I don't want to be a dream killer and we will just have to put rules on it if he does end up getting something.
That said, I really don't think it will happen. Reality will kill the dream and Erik and Nate will soon forget about it once school starts and they realize how long it will take to save up that kind of money.
It has been kind of fun to watch them this week and it has been a good learning experience for them to research and really decide what they want to get instead of buying impulsively. It's good to give kids choices with money. I would rather they make a $100 mistake now than a $10,000 mistake later when the responsibility is a little bigger.
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Whoa! That is one cool toy! BTW, safe eyes has a filter that works on itouch, and maybe on something like that.
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