Whats ur problem? First its not ur business. Second dont judge people by what they buy. Like what is wrong with u? She should have bitched slapped u. That is so insensitive. Idiot.

YDI. My 2 year old uses idevices to color and use development games. She can count to 10 and knows her alphabet. Yeah... iPads are for ignorant minimum wage employees only.

A few days ago my sister asked me what she should get for her 4 year old son... her options: a 3DS (told her it would damage his eyes), a PSVita (told her he can't even handle a Wii controller, he won't be able to use it at all), and now she's come up with the idea that he needs an iPod Touch 4th gen... I can't even understand how he needs it, and she complains about how I got an iPad for my classes (in high school).

I understand how you feel, taking into consideration the number of kids who get smart phones or iPads every day and bitch about it because it's not the "newest model", but really, just seethe about these things to yourself, because as you just found out the one time you choose to speak out loud about it is the time that circumstances will be different than you thought and you will look like an ass.

That's why you stay out of other people's business? Let's say the kid wasn't autistic do you really think you've could've talked a parent down from buying something so expensive for a 5 year old?

You had no idea the kid was autistic, so it's not your fault. Even if you believe 5 year olds shouldn't (normally) have things like iPads and iPhones (which I agree with unless it's for a special reason like it is in this case), you shouldn't confront a total stranger about it because you just never know what might happen. So just walk away from it as a lesson but don't beat yourself up over it. You would never have known that the mother had an autistic kid.

Your business. Mind it.

By law the " freedom of speech " can only go so far ..... And a good lawyer ;) "if the mother wanted to sue op " could push it being hate speech against a disabled child..... The freedom of speech thing is a bit old.....it's not the right to say "anything speech" . Everywhere u to there are LIMITS. To what u can and can't not say . Just saying .......

That's to do with being lazy, not the iPad. Clearly technology is part of the future and that's why older generations are angry at it replacing what they were brought up with.

i agree someone needs to teach parents how to raise their children. the government apparently cannot do it themselves. yes this kid is autistic but if parents didnt buy these things for their children constantly op might have thought of a disability when they heard this. parents dont have the right to get their children what ever they want and that is why so many children believe that the deserve everything being given to them. there is no way a 2yr old could use a ipad in a way that would justify buying the child their own ipad. if the parent wanted to use the educational apps then thhey could download them onto their ipad and let the children use those apps with the parent. children are not able to understand at that age how easy it is to break somethings. if the parent wanted to teach their kid with the apps then they should work with them. sticking a kid infront of a computer and saying here play this game isnt going to teach them. no matter how educational the game is. children need the parents to be there to explain things and help them understand not just learn a pattern of answering. parent who buy these things solely for their child under the age of 6 should have their children taken from them. these parents are exihibiting bad parenting and teaching their children that the more expensive it is the better. parents can sit with their kid for a few minutes a day and help them learn to read or do math. they dont need some expensive "toy" to doy it for them.