Lingokids is a great option for parents looking to foster healthy gaming habits

My four-year-old daughter asked why Green Goblin loves pumpkins after spending time with a 7-inch V8 Contixo tablet that came preloaded with Lingokids, an app I hadn't heard of. Lingokids offers thousands of educational activities for children aged two to eight and reaches 20 million kids each month.

The app added seven Spider-Man activities in February, and the character models sit somewhere between traditional Spidey designs and the big-headed variants from the Spidey and His Amazing Friends series. The games are low-pressure: one has you crawl around a window to save a cat, while a simple sidescroller lets Spider-Man walk around taking pictures.

That sidescroller became my daughter's favorite and prompted her to make fan-art collages of Green Goblin. Lingokids has a free tier that rotates a limited selection of games each week. Subscriptions cost $13.49 monthly or $71.88 annually (about $5.99 a month), which is cheaper than our other screentime option and adds educational value while serving as a gentle introduction to gaming.

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