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Children's play is their work, and the more we encourage children to play, the more we will be giving them an important resource for learning and for growing all through their lives.

Spending a lot of time making canned devices work means less time spent in the rich kind of play that young children need most - play of their own invention, from their own imagination. It really helps a child for his or her parents to set healthy limits for any kind of "electronic" play.

Toddlers say "no" to lots of things in their struggle to be their own self. They are not taunting us - it's their way of saying, "I am a separate person."