Computer Time

Did you let your toddler use computers?

Our Mommy MD Guide’s reply: Computers have no place in the lives of two-year-olds. Yes, later they can be educational, and I don’t know where I would be without my computer. But I didn’t encourage my toddlers to use computers. Young kids need to play, be read to and to talk. They don’t need to type.

—Ayala Laufer-Cahana, MD, a mom of 16- and 14-year-old sons and a 12-year-old daughter, a pediatrician, and the founder of Herbal Water Inc., in Wynnewood, PA