For Christmas this year, I was hoping Santa would create a kids tablet for my son. He just turned 4, and until now has been using the Kids Fire Tablet (too much Amazon junk to click). I would like to start from scratch, pick an “adult” (non-Amazon) tablet (smallish in size), install a safe case, install a parental control software, and hopefully customize the tablet with some type of launcher for him.
Has anyone done this before? Any recommendations on any of the steps above would be greatly appreciated.
I bought my 4 yr old granddaughter a tablet specifically set up for her age group and already had some fun stuff loaded and was built within a protective case.
Don’t go overboard because they will soon outgrow this and want better.
Yes, it could access the internet and had parental locks in place.
Tbh, that tablet was a toy. It was meant to be used as a toy for educational and entertainment purposes. I doubt seriously if she uses it now, or even has it anymore. She’s in 1st grade now and all grown up! lol
Buy a decent tablet when he gets a little older. The tech changes soooo fast that by the time he enters school the tablet you buy today will be obsolete.
Doubt it. Amazon made it so you can’t change much. I did on my Fire HD Tablet using the Fire Toolbox right before Amazon eliminated that ability to wipe Amazon stuff.
Btw, I installed the Nova launcher when I did the Fire Toolbox thing.
The truth is I need to decide if I want to keep paying monthly for the Amazon Kids software. I was looking through his tablet (while he was sleeping haha), and seems like it works well enough for him at the moment. Amazon Kids does have a way for parents to see how much of each app he is watching/using, so I can monitor. But he is still too young to really understand YouTube and the offensive stuff it can provide with searching, so I really haven’t utilized the monitoring part of the software. I told Santa maybe we could create the same type of system (in an Android tablet), but still allow me to possibly use a custom launcher to organize his apps and videos. One of the biggest things I hate about the Amazon portion is that it always seems messy and unorganized. Like icons are “thrown aboot” as our Canadian friends would tell me.
To follow up with my original post, I am thinking about the A8 Galaxy Tab for my now 5-year-old son. I had posted last year because Santa was thinking about upgrading his tablet, but we stuck with the old Kids Fire Tablet (yuck). He is now so good with a tablet, I think this year is the time to get him a more suitable one. Anyone that has the A8 or something similar, are these receptive to adding a custom launcher (and LM)? I would like to password folders that I don’t want him gaining access to when I’m not watching, and have his favorite stuff in a custom layout, easy for him to see and use. Any advice on this tablet would be appreciated!
