# Software for very young children

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/software-for-very-young-children/175451>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 15, 2003, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/software-for-very-young-children/175451 "2003-05-15T15:17:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![filmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@filmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmore)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/software-for-very-young-children/175451/21 "2003-05-16T14:59:45Z")

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Reader Rabbit was great. My daughter loved it. Very simple and engaging.

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**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/software-for-very-young-children/175451/22 "2003-05-16T15:07:55Z")

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I’ll second Jumpstart Toddlers as a good start. Also Dr. Suess ABCs – lotsa places to just click and the animations do silly entertaining things.

The Putt-Putts are great as your kid gets more comfortable with the computer. Then move up to Pajama Sam as he gets older. Great stuff.

Two more threads on this topic:

[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=112332](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=112332)

[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=99687](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=99687)

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