i've been trying to ignore the onslaught of gobbledygook chatter clips but sometimes one just reaches out and smacks you in the face with how dumb everything is
because of 8yo's preferences i have a strong inclination toward female protagonists to start, she's a real longstanding misandrist so maaaaaybe dogsbody?
can't decide which one to start my 11 and 8yo on; we are somehow still doing readalouds at night and i'm clinging to the last year or so i'm guessing this will be the case
oooh sorry i missed it! yeah i gotta get my kids into some diana wynne jones, we're almost done with the patricia c wrede dragon books and i need to move them along to new territory
(this is totally correct that it's fun to put images on your own make your own tracks but that if you get too into it it'll take forever and you definitely don't have to)
if you start with a yoto i'd be sure to start with a couple of the cards they make rather than the make your owns, because you'll want them to have the pictures on the cards and the little pictograms on the lil screen to associate with specific audio they want to select
HOWEVER, if you can get a relative to buy you a toniebox, i would probably do that first and then switch to the yoto i bought myself around age 4 or 5. you will probably get faster, more enthusiastic uptake of both of them. tonie's figurines are so appealing, but then they teach kids to want audio
we introduced a yoto mini around 3.5, and if you're only going to get one, that's for sure the one i'd get. it absolutely grows with them for longer, and it can do everything a tonie can do, and a 3.5yo can definitely work a yoto mini.
