The Preschool/Pre-Kindergarten version is perfectly sized for little hands, while the Kindergarten/1st Grade version helps to promote proper writing technique with the sleek stylus. There are books for 4 different learning stages and two different systems to choose from. I love that the Leap Start systems are perfect for my boys’ ages-Preschool through 1st grade. The Leap Start system is still technology based but rather than using a screen to teach different lessons, there are interchangeable books that the Leap Start can read and use to teach through games and visuals. You can imagine our excitement when we got a sneak peek at Leap Frog’s newest learning system that uses books rather than screens to teach! (So RETRO, right?!) At that point we limited screen time to more of a reward for helping and caring behaviors and we have seen such a change in our family ever since. We initially took away screen time as a sort of punishment for my son’s behavior but we soon saw that no screen time really made a huge difference and brought back our sweet guy.
My husband and I decided that we wanted to seriously limit screen time in our home after seeing our oldest son become more defiant and talking back on a regular basis. The games are fun, the boys are engaged and I love that I can implement time limits on their use, but it’s still technically “screen time”.
Don’t get me wrong-we love our Leap Frog Epic and Leap Pad Platinum. We try very hard to avoid movies and screen time the entire trip and encourage learning fun, but as technology advances, more and more of the educational toys are essentially little tablets with games.
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