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As I was flying home from Maryland after having visited relatives and gorged myself on way too much pie, I had the luck to sit next to a wonderful family of four. A mother, a father, a little four year-old boy and his sister, aged two. First, the boy and his father sat next to me. They played a few games together on their iPad (all apps, I noticed, that we at the library recommend for young children). They were wonderful to listen to (admittedly, I was asleep through most of the father/son interaction – like I said, a lot of pie had been eaten!) — but the real treat came at the end of the flight when the mother and daughter switched to the seats next to me. They also spent some time on the iPad, though the apps were different and much more developmentally appropriate for her. Again,...https://www.alsc.ala.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Lisa-K-Bubert_headshot-150x150.jpg