Admittedly, the touch interface for phones and tablets is more intuitive for children, and the caliber of games available, both educational and otherwise, are fairly impressive. Anything that gets them more familiar with the "flow" of technology is alright by me, even if I have an old man "get off my lawn" bias towards them.

I still worry, though, about other basic computer skills. It's one thing to be able to manipulate a touch interface and punch an iPad as hard as an oddly-strong three-year-old can. It's another thing to perform work tasks, or have basic understandings of the pieces at work. I understand those can be learned when much older (as was the case with us), but concepts like files, folders, and networks are hard to conceptualize when devices make efforts to hide their presence.

Oh well. Still plenty of years to work on 'em.