My son is turning 2 in a few weeks and his granmother has asked what he wants for his birthday. Which of course means, what do we want him to have since he really doesn't have preferences at this point. He does love our computer - mostly because of the screen saver slide show we have. But he will play around with the mouse and gets all excited when the pages of the internet change. Does anyone have any suggestions on a toddler "laptop"/computer that would really entertain him. I have seen some, but they only have a small screen and don't seem that interactive. Oh, and a big problem with any of the computer programs you can use for toddlers on your home computer is the fact that we have a MAC ratehr than a PC. I would appreciate any suggestions you can provide! Thanks!
Both our boys love the leap pad things. We had the 3-36 month one and our older one called it his computer. It's not really a computer, but very interactive. If you can find them, Sam's Club has the best price by far. About 10 dollars more, but you get 3 extra books.
My 2 year old got a V-Tech laptop. It does have a small screen, but it was a cute little Thomas one that he loves. It is helping him learn his letters, and when he gets a little older there are other games he can play too! It doesn't entertain him forever, but honestly what really does at 2 years! lol!
Hello,
I am not sure if you have looked into it, but a V-Smile has an interactive play thing you hook up to your TV. They have a little "lap-top" thing they can learn and interact with. I have one but my daughter is not quite old enought to be interested yet. It was around 30-40 dollars. May want to look into that. All the screens on laptops I have seen are small, so if you are looking for bigger you may want to do that route. I got mine at Toys R us but have seen them on ebay too.
J. S
Well, I don't know about separate "laptop" toys, but my daughter got the FisherPrice Laugh, Learn, and Smile Computer Learning System and she enjoys it. It is a keyboard that fits over your actual computer keyboard and has a program you install on your computer with three different levels of play. It does not utilize the mouse, but it is very interactive and teaches cause and effect, numbers, letters, etc. Hope this helps!
cj
My daughter has a "laptop" it is Barbie, but is has a bunch of games and things to play.(However she is just now learning what to do with them) The best thing is..it is like a laptop, fold closed and everything and you don't need to attach it to anything, to use it. I am sure there are boy ones. We got hers about 3 years ago (when she was 2)and I have seen much better ones since. Good Luck
Last Christmas my son was 2 1/2 and he got the Fisher Price Fun 2 Learn. It is super durable, inexpensive and portable big time. It is super cute has a mouse attached to the keyboard and has three or four game levels I think. It has the whole ABC thing with cute displays for each letter. He still loves it a year later.
We have an Archos player with a touch screen that we allow our 3 year old to play with. It is about the size of a mini dvd player, in fact it fits in the same size case. It holds 80 gigs so we can put movies on there, it can have music, and it can handle widgets, or programs that you can get for it. So it's basically a little laptop. It comes with a remote that has a keyboard, and there is also a keyboard program in it that comes up on the screen so he can type. At the moment he is in his bed watching 'Meet the Robinsons' on it. It costs around $500 and you have to buy the software to go with but it proved a treasure on our last roadtrip. Oh, it also can hook up on a wireless network so you can surf the internet with it. It has TV capabilities as well. Perhaps this isn't at all what you're looking for, but I think it is quite cool and we like that he isn't taking dvd's in and out and scratching them up, and he likes the notepad program and the touchscreen. He's fallen asleep with it once or twice and it doesn't have a problem. Anyhow, even if you don't get this for your son you ought to check them out, they're just new and fun and functional.
Another suggestion is to find a business or school that is getting rid of old computers and get one just for him. The problem we found at that age is the lack of fear of pressing buttons and our son crashed the whole system, but my husband is a computer geek and can fix it.
