I don’t like to spend a lot of money on my children at Christmas time. In general we don’t feel that we need to splurge, but we don’t want to take the focus off of the meaning of the season. We also don’t ever want our children to come to expect things. We’ve never bought our children anything electronic, either. That said, they do get electronic gifts, but those gifts have only ever come from their family members (aunts, uncles, and grandparents).

Their aunt and uncle bought them each a tablet last year and they really enjoy them. We do limit screen time but we allow them to use their tablets because they don’t get to watch TV much and we don’t own gaming systems. So if the oldest wants to play a game she has to play something on her tablet and if the youngest wants to watch a video she has to get on her tablet. My kids don’t have cell phones or Nintendo of their own TVs in their bedrooms.

If you’ve been on the fence about getting your kiddo a tablet, or it’s just time for a new one, now is a good time!

Right now you can save 40% when you buy 2Woohoo!

The new Fire HD 8 Kids Edition Tablet 2-pack is available now! It’s got an 8″ HD Display with 32 GB, with 10 hours of battery life, and comes with kid-proof cases available in blue and pink! This bundle contains two of the fire tablets! These are real, functioning tablets; they’re just tailored to kids.

What you get:

• 1 year of Amazon FreeTime Unlimited! This gives you access to over 20,000 apps, videos, books, games, and educational content from PBS Kids, Disney, Nickelodeon, etc. There is also Spanish language content available! FreeTime Unlimited is full of content specifically for children ages 3-12!
• Downloads! Here’s something I’ve come to enjoy! I have a daughter who has spent the majority of her life in and out of the doctors offices, hospitals, ERs, urgent cares, therapies, etc. I use to haul around a diaper bag with a hundred toys and books, always cautious about her playing with toys in doctor offices, and never wanted her to have anything like this. But once we got it I realized that if I’m using it in moderation, it’s actually become a blessing and helped ease a burden off of me. Especially when those visits turn from being 1 hour long to 4 hours long. So when I download content at home with my Wifi, like movies, then when I go places where there is no internet, she can still watch movies. It’s been fantastic! She can even watch in the car on long drives to and from appointments out of town! Her speech pathologist has also recommended some great apps that have helped with speech/reading!
• 2 year guarantee that if your child breaks the tablet, you can return it and they’ll replace it for FREE! No questions asked! Guaranteed! These things are built for tough kids by the way, they are durable and each comes with a kid-proof case. But if you break it, they replace it! Yay!
• Easy-to-use parental controls! This! There’s the availability to have and manage up to 4 individual child profiles! You can personalize their screen time limits/curfews (which I love), you can set educational goals (like reading goals, where they have to read a certain amount before they’re allowed access to play games or watch movies ,WOW!Cool!), set filters (like age-appropriate content so they only see age-appropriate content for their age), and you get to manage web browsing and content usage. I love this because you’re giving them the freedom of having their own device but you still have the control over their device by managing it and keeping them safe. You can get on their tablet to manage the controls or your Amazon account (I just log on through my desktop to manage the parental controls). And you have a passcode that allows you to access all the features of the tablet, and it’s only available to whoever has the passcode.