Now that we are through Thanksgiving, I guess it is time to start thinking about Christmas. For the twins, we are thinking some kind of music player, but that is where we are hung up. We were initially thinking CD boomboxes. But they are nearly impossible to find this year. All the music aisles are filled with I-pod docking stations. So I started wondering if CD players are becoming obsolete in the digital music era. Then I started thinking maybe I should get MP3 players, instead. But they would need some kind of speaker system. And an MP3 player is awfully small for a 6 year old to keep up with. And more complicated to load music into. So maybe the old school CD player is the best route for now. Arghhh, why does this have to be more difficult?
PS, however, is making life easy on us. She created a PowerPoint presentation of her Christmas wish list, complete with fly-ins and sound effects. The child has a better grasp of Power Point than I do. I think her first job will be to create my trial presentations.
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My girls are 9 and 11, and they still have a CD boombox which is their primary music source. They both have some form of iPod - my 11 year old uses hers primarily for books. My 9 year old didn't miss hers (an iPod shuffle) when I took it to use at the gym.
I think if you're going to get it for 6 year olds, YOU have to manage the downloading of the music. And I suppose you're right ... they'll need a docking station of some sort.
Which I guess I need to think about for my girls, if I want them to get better use from their iPods. Part of why we haven't is b/c the computer they use is slow and difficult to load from, etc. But my 6th grader is getting a new computer soon, and that will make it more do-able.
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