Lingokids is a pre-Switch treat for younger gamers

This is the perfect way for gamer parents to get their kids into the hobby “Why’s that Green Goblin guy love pumpkins so much?” my four-year-old daughter asked me recently, after sitting down for some time with her 7-inch V8 Contixo tablet, a budget device aimed at young children she got for her birthday. It came preloaded with an app called Lingokids, a platform full of “edutainment” activities for kids that I had never heard of before. Lingokids has literally thousands of educational activities aimed at kids between two and eight years old. 20 million kids use the platform each month across mobile devices like tablets and smartphones. There’s a free tier of Lingokids that allows access to a limited but rotating assortment of games each week. Subscriptions cost $13.49 on a monthly plan or $71.88 annually (which breaks down to only $5.99 a month). That’s a lot cheaper than YouTube Premium, our other go-to for screentime, but this has the added bonus of offering some educational value as well. It also feels like a great way to introduce her to gaming, a precursor to an era when I pass my Nintendo Switch down to her. My daughter really enjoys the seven educational Spider-Man activiti