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Christmas controversy: Are iPads bad for kids?

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When my son was less than a year old, he began crying one afternoon and would not stop. He’d been fed; his diaper was clean. Try as I might, I couldn’t discern the source of his stress—nor could I get him to pipe down.
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So I took my brand new iPhone 3G, turned it on, and put it in his stroller with him. Complete silence ensued. It was glorious.
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It also might’ve been a moment of truly awful parenting.
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With Christmas on the way, and the iPad selling like proverbial hotcakes, controversy has sprung up over whether children should be giving the electronic tablets to their children as gifts. A focal point of the debate: Fisher-Price’s $80 Newborn-to-Toddler Apptivity Seat for iPad (http://www.fisher-price.com/en_US/brands/babygear/products/78030), which displays the iPad right in front of a very young (and mostly immobile) child.
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