just in two weeks time!!

tablets huh? Well I love tablets...but not the kind you are talking about! I love the kinds of tablets of PAPER!!! yes, back in the day my brothers and sister would zoom to the toy isle...I'd zoom to the office supply isle and covetly eyeball all the tablets and cool writing stuff! Now, my 11 yo GD...is also hooked on office supply stuff and particularly tablets and we can't even go to the Dollar store without cruising the paper isle and choosing a cool tablet! I used to give her a stocking from Santa...and it had all that cool office supply stuff...tablets, post-it's, pencils, erasers..etc. Still love it! And I never had to recharge anything! Just get another one!

I am smiling as I am reading this and feeling your frustration. I had 5 children and each had their own things they wanted LOL boy it was sad to see me spending my precious money and watching them throw it in a corner a few days after Christmas or birthday etc. My youngest is 21 turning 22 in Dec so for his birthday/Christmas gift I got him a digital SLR Camera with lens etc. Yea I just spent some money on it. He has been wanting to have one of these cameras and I have never been able to just afford to get him one. I am hoping he respects me for being able to finally purchase him one and that now since he is older will appreciate it and take very good care of it. Even though we teach our children once you give the gift its in their hands then. I have bought my grandchildren gifts that I had hoped they would appreciate never to see anything of the gift after the holiday. So I decided to give money in a christmas gift card to let them get what they wanted. Maybe they will get something they really want with it.

Wow, she looks a little young for such expensive 'toys'. (That could be the problem, they're not really toys to carelessly play with.) SIMPLYD is right. Young kids are curious and want to have fun. They don't appreciate that electronic gadgets such as tablets aren't really playthings and they can cost BIG money.

Kids are kids and they do things that are expected of them, destroying toys. My daughter have done this several times, even an expensive Barbie collection was murdered by her. and that make them more endearing, isn't it?

How old is your daughter, by the way, jazel? I think, if she is in that very young stage still, where she can't fully understand how to take care of that gadget, it's most likely that it will not be operational at the soonest. kids are kids and they are so curious and excited of using those types of gadgets.

I also bought a cheap tablet. I think it's been with me for like months now. 2 weeks, that's so fast. There was one time when the tablet didn't function well so I just turned it off and then tried to on it the next day. Good thing it worked again. It's also a good thing that you still have a warranty, at least you can still have that fixed. Maybe you can also try telling your child to be more careful with her things next time.

They are very expensive. My hubby bought one from China and it never arrived. He lost all of his money. It was awful. You must have a lot of money to afford 3,000.00 my mum and dad do not even spend that amount on me. I think you are a bit silly spending that amount if you cannot afford it. If she is used to breaking things you should not spend the money and tell her to take more care of things. You spend a lot of money on her and she breaks it. That's not fair.

Okay, I'm convinced I have the exact same gadget as your daughter. Got mine for a little bit less (Php2500) and it has proven to be useful. However, when I bought it I knew the quality was not so good that's why I have to use it with utmost care. I knew if I dropped it even once it may be broken for good. Therefore, it is not something I would entrust to a 7-year-old if I were a mother. However, I respect your decision to buy her the tablet as you say she uses it for reading. These tablets are mostly produced in China and people call them fakes but they are just another (not famous and cheap)brand of tablet PCs. If they were big and had the Apple logo at the back then I'd say they're fakes or imitations. But they're not. Just a not famous brand of tablet PC that can actually be useful for some, like me, and your daughter (if only it didn't break.) I am not a parent so maybe it's easy for me to say that i won't buy my future kids this and that, but I guess when I have children my attitude might change and I might give in.

I feel for you. Sometimes we are happy to buy gifts for our children, unfortunately usually the gifts will not last for a long time. So I wonder whether we shouldn't buy so expensive toys for young children since they can break it in a short time. And actually young children feel happy to play simple things or even play with you. I love China

hello jazel, Oh so bad my dear. What happened? It's just two weeks and I am sure it is still under warranty. Go back to the store and have it checked or demand for any replacement. I wish it will be replaced or fixed then. Happy Birthday and she has same birthday with my youngest son...October 20

I am more particular of the quality rather than the price. 3000 worth of tablet is something that i wouldn't risk buying at all as i know it's China-imitation and the price isn't even worth it at all. I consider it a waste of money. Everything that i have bought for my son are all still working except those that were given to him as a present. Cheap toys usually don't last a day to him, but the expensive ones are still working up to this day. Two of his gameboys and a playstation got destroyed by flood three years ago.

hello, Actually, your daughter wont know if it is expensive or not it means it is not an issue to her. So, she will still be thankful to you and as a mom you are a nice mother because you give her what she like in her birthday. Well, I am not a mother yet but I have a little brother and he also demands from some toys that will not take longer to him. As I can remember the longest day that his toy long is almost 5 days. haha that is why my mom never buy expensive one.

When my son was alittle child he used to be very curious about the toys, so most of the time he opened the robots,and cars to see what was inside,and then destroy them, he was very active and always wanted to something else to the toys beside to play, so his toys never last a lot.