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Maybe I'm overestimating the learning capacity of two-year-olds, but isn't that something you'd learn after a few times?

Oh, but buttons are fun. Especially ones that you push and things happen. The home screen is fun. The search screen is fun.

(and the big grey button on the ups in daddy's office is fun too. makes beeping noises.)

There should be a way to enable kid mode, and use the switch to disable the home button for a while. At least till he figured that out.

sounds like someone needs to make an app for kids that just lets them hit buttons

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No, actually. Here's my son's (17 months) usage pattern:

1: Open app. 2: Watch app for 3 seconds. 3: Close app. 4: Goto 1