Letting your young child use the iPad? A smart move?

Daria Adamska has learned the hard way not to let her six-year-old play on the iPad at home.

The Co Cavan-based mother-of-two had got into the habit of giving little Michelle their iPad to occupy her on long-haul flights back to Adamska’s native Russia.

“However, we found that if she was allowed to use it for more than an hour she was always in a foul mood, very irritable and uncooperative and hyperactive. Also, she wouldn’t go for a nap afterwards.