An Apple Watch for Your 5-Year-Old? More Parents Say Yes
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Re: An Apple Watch for Your 5-Year-Old? More Parents Say Yes
#2Interesting. I've often considered an Apple Watch for my 9 year old, who struggles with (and benefits from) ADHD and thus would benefit from specific features such as the reminders (especially location-specific), alarms, and overall organization capabilities. But I'm hesitant to open that box just yet...
He isn't pining for a smart phone yet, nor do his friends seem to generally own them, so that wouldn't be the motivation but I can understand how it would be a good intermediate step. Gradually increasing access to these technologies and educating them along the way makes sense to me, rather than passing the child the firehose when they turn a certain magical age.
Re: An Apple Watch for Your 5-Year-Old? More Parents Say Yes
#3As is it was not hard enough to remember to charge your own watch every day...
Re: An Apple Watch for Your 5-Year-Old? More Parents Say Yes
#4I can imagine the sales-pitch when Apple gets on this for real. Keep your 5-year-old healthy, safe, productive, and up-to-stuff all day long! (Starts at $599)
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#5Some of my friends have given their kids FitBits for similar reasons (watch + step tracking + it could be integrated with a phone if the kid has one).
But I don't get the idea of an Apple Watch... I'm a small adult and even with the smallest straps standard Apple Watches are WAY too big for my wrists. How big are these kids?!?
Also... a full Apple Watch seems like an expensive option for kids who might be playing outside. My husband is an athlete and he's actually scratched his watch because it got dropped from waist height while he was getting changed. It's a small scratch, but still... he takes decent care of things, wouldn't a five year old wreck it?
I like the idea of kids having access to tech but an Apple Watch seems like overkill.
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#6Here is Apple's pitch on this:
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/09/apple-extends-the-app...
Re: An Apple Watch for Your 5-Year-Old? More Parents Say Yes
#7Interesting. I've often considered an Apple Watch for my 9 year old, who struggles with (and benefits from) ADHD and thus would benefit from specific features such as the reminders (especially location-specific), alarms, and overall organization capabilities. But I'm hesitant to open that box just yet... He isn't pining for a smart phone yet, nor do his friends seem to generally own them, so that wouldn't be the moti…
How a location-specific reminders will help the 9 year old ADHD and what org capabilities such a young person might need?
Re: An Apple Watch for Your 5-Year-Old? More Parents Say Yes
#8I can imagine the sales-pitch when Apple gets on this for real. Keep your 5-year-old healthy, safe, productive, and up-to-stuff all day long! (Starts at $599)
> Apple Watch SE as a gift. The smart watch cost $279,
> At an event on Wednesday, it is set to release a new version of the Apple Watch that is cheaper than the Apple Watch SE, the two people said.
Re: An Apple Watch for Your 5-Year-Old? More Parents Say Yes
#9I can imagine the sales-pitch when Apple gets on this for real. Keep your 5-year-old healthy, safe, productive, and up-to-stuff all day long! (Starts at $599)
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