Getting a Wii

[abigailrw5]

Anyone else use a Wii at your daycare? How often do they use it? My husband and I are thinking of getting one and think it might entertain the school agers and 4 year olds once in a while.

[sharlan]

IMHO, it will cause more problems than you want. The kids will constantly fight over who's turn it is, what game to play, etc.

We have all the game systems but they're kept upstairs, off limits to all daycare kids.

[PitterPatter]

Anyone else use a Wii at your daycare? How often do they use it? My husband and I are thinking of getting one and think it might entertain the school agers and 4 year olds once in a while.

We have a Wii I bought for my son for Christmas. We have it connected in the living room so the whole family can play if we wish. I do not allow it for pre-schoolers in the daycare (too much of a risk mine throw things) but I will allow it for SA IF there are no pre-schoolers here. Usually pre-schoolers are all signed out by 4pm so the rest of the kids can play for the last hour of the day. If we have a snow day the kids want to play but I don't allow it because it's not fair to the younger ones. They have to wait until 4pm as usual. So far it's worked well. If a problem should occur then the Wii will be for after daycare only.

[dave4him]

We dont play with the Wii during the daycare time, im sure it will get more use when my on kids are older though

[Springdaze]

I thought about asking this too. I have some dancing ones like just dance kids and I dont give remotes unless they will take turns, which they surprisingly do most times, the others just "pretend" they are playing and wait.

[abigailrw5]

Chellenj, Thats what I thought would be good would be dancing and even the little ones would have fun dancing along with. I have mature older 4 yearolds and a 5 and a 6 yr old that would love it.

[Springdaze]

to me its just like a movement activity and sometimes I use the remote and "we" try to burn the chicken. (if you have just dance kids, you know what i mean!)

[countrymom]

we have it but no one is allowed to play it unless my own children are playing it. And its only for the older children at my discretion.

[tbutler]

I purchased a Wii for my 6 and 4 year old daughters for Christmas. They love playing the dancing game. Some afternoons after snack, they play the dance game, no one uses a remote. Everyone just dances.

[jen2651]

Santa just brought us the xbox 360 with kinect. It is fantastic. The kinect is the sensor thingy that can 'read' your body. So, for the dancing and maze, and skiing etc no one needs to hold anything! And, you can see your exact movements on the screen. If you raise your arm, your person raises theirs. My inlaws have a Wii and in my opinion this is much better for a variety of ages. My uncle and dad were playing it at Christmas, my 2.5 dcg loves doing dora dance with my 4 year old son. Sometimes when it is too cold out, we bring that out for our morning movers!

[abigailrw5]

We would love an xbox with kinect but its pretty pricey. Thats about 300.00 and we found a bundle wii pkg for 149.00.

[meganlavonnesmommy]

We have one that we use for daycare. I have some older kids, 4, 5, 6, and 9. I dont let the 2 year olds play it.

We play about once a week, or once every other week, on fridays after school and snack. Or if they have a day off school sometimes we play for an hour or so.

We always play multi player games so all 4 can play together. They usually play Family Game Night, Mario Party 8, Kirby or Mario Kart, sometimes Wii sports. They love the bowling and sword fighting.

Its never been an issue or fight in our house. They make some good games for the younger kids too, Dora and Diego games.

While they play I "supervise" with one ear so they are playing ok, and I sit on the floor and play with the 2 year olds so I can keep an eye on the Wii action.

[AmyLeigh]

My dcb's use our Wii sparingly. I have set a rule that they can play for about an hour on Friday afternoons. The dcb's all have Wii's and I know they play a lot at home. I had to cut back because there were problems as mentioned about sharing and agreeing on which game to play.
I do like to use it for Netflix, though.

[Nellie]

My dcb's use our Wii sparingly. I have set a rule that they can play for about an hour on Friday afternoons. The dcb's all have Wii's and I know they play a lot at home. I had to cut back because there were problems as mentioned about sharing and agreeing on which game to play.
I do like to use it for Netflix, though.

We got one at Christmas and for the last 3 weeks it has only been used for netflix. I love being able to put on a program during nap while I clean. My pants are saying that it should be used for the wii fit again

[Countrygal]

Haven't read all the answer, so this may be repeating someone.

We had a Wii long before starting daycare. Personally, I have determined it is not age-appropriate for preschoolers UNDER MOST CIRCUMSTANCES.

We are looking to purchase a kids dancing game to go with the daycare. I probably won't use the pads, but just allow the kids to try to copy the movements in the dances. We have a more grown-up edition and it would be much too hard for daycare.

We also streamed our netflix movies through our Wii. There is a LOT available on "instant watch", especially for young children. You may want to consider this use as well if you buy one for the family.

Good luck with the decision!