Windows 8 for Toddlers

Well, I finally chose a few apps for Travis.  The things I wanted for a 2 year old are apps to do the very basics.  Color recognition, shapes, numbers  and the alphabet.  Also you've gotta have some fun on the way so I got a touch screen piano app and some children's songs.  Since it is a touch screen, drawing apps are important too.
My other grand kids grew up on Reader Rabbit and learned to read well before entering kindergarten.  That is important because dyslexia runs in the family.  I personally had a tough time with reading while I was growing up but we were able to recognize the problem and got our own children help early and were able to correct the problem.  Reader Rabbit is available on the iPad but not yet as a Windows 8 app although, I will purchase it if and when it become available.
So,  here are the apps I did choose to purchase:

Travis' Home Screen

1. Math and Number for Kids
2. GuruCool PlaySchool
3. Kids Learn to Read (Pre-school)
4. My Baby Piano
5. Best Kids Songs
Total Cost $13.95

Kids Video HD was free and Fresh Paint came with the computer.  There were of couple of other free apps that I added as well.  There are a lot of education apps available for Windows 8 and as Travis grows he will have to have lots to access.
I also put his favourite movies on the computer as well but I really didn't like the way the windows video app wanted to download and play movies from XBox.  So what I did was to create a shortcut to the Windows 8 Video folder on the start menu.  This worked very well.  It lists and allows him to play only the movies on the computer.
Windows 8 make it easy to protect children with "Family Safety."  So, the administrator can limit access to only safe and age appropriate items. Travis's Mom is the system administrator but not yet familiar with Windows 8 so the plan is to give her about an hour or so training and then remove the items on the right of the screen so Travis' experience will be limited only to the things he needs.