10 Reasons Why Parents Are Throwing Away The Tablet For This

"Read this BEFORE you hand over the tablet one more time!"

By Ray Porter.
Last Updated Oct 2, 2026 · 5 min read

1. The tablet does the playing. His hands only swipe.

Every swipe gets a sound, a sparkle and a cheer. The screen does the work while he sits and watches.

In the busy book nothing moves until his fingers move it. Peel it, match it, stick it: the work is all his.

2. Light-up toys do the playing for him. He just presses the button.

Press the button, get the lights and the song. The light-up toy got the workout, and he got to watch.

Fourteen activities in one book, and not one of them does anything until he does.

3. The tablet keeps him quiet tonight. Nobody shows you the bill.

Screens hand him the picture, the sound and the answer. The busy book hands him a job.

Match the colors on the palette, count what rides on the train, find the face that fits the feeling.

4. A tablet asks his hands for one thing: a swipe.

She tied it to touchscreens taking the place of cutting, sticking and building play.

Every page of the busy book is pinch, peel, match and stick. Small fingers doing real work.

5. The tablet goes off and the meltdown starts. A book has no off switch.

Screens used to calm have been associated with more emotional reactivity over time. The quiet is borrowed.

One page is all feelings, from happy to worried. It never runs out of battery halfway through a hard moment.

6. The tablet wins because it's ready in one second. So is this book.

I ordered a busy book once and opened a bag of tiny velcro dots to stick on myself. I never finished it.

This one comes 100% pre-assembled. Every velcro piece is already attached, straight out of the box.

7. The phone at the dinner table is the old trick. This fits in the diaper bag.

This fits right in my diaper bag and keeps them busy when I need it most.

Industrial-strength velcro keeps the pieces attached, in the car seat and at the restaurant table.

8. Autoplay is built to keep him watching. This had to win over a mom's four kids first.

Becca is a former Pre-K teacher and a mom of four. Homeschooling her son, she found the tools poor and built her own.

Every product has to win over her four kids first. If they don't love it, she won't release it.

9. Nobody brags about what the tablet did. Parents write in about what their kid did.

That is what the reviews keep describing: a kid doing the pages on his own.

One honest caution: no book makes a specific kid do anything on a schedule. The pages wait until he's ready.

10. You get to try it 100% risk free!

Hey, I get that all kids have their own unique personalities, so to be honest, it might not be a hit with every child out there.

What I love about Becca is that she gives you a 3-month learning guarantee. If your kids aren’t thrilled, just reach out to her and she'll make it right.