![]() The warm-and-fuzzy vision is you get Grandma to record herself reading their favorite book. You can purchase blank cards and then use the Yoto website or app to wirelessly upload any mp3 file you want. But because my kids are podcast obsessed, the real game-changer is the Make Your Own card option. Jones, Paw Patrol, and The Boxcar Children. My kids listen to and love many of the titles from the in-house Yoto library - both Yoto original content, like music collections and biographies of inventors, and licensed audiobooks like Disney novelizations, Junie B. Yoto’s audio cards are similar to credit cards in size and feel, and each one contains a chip that links your player to specific audio files - Yoto has a big library of its own content, so you can buy all kinds of audiobooks and music and educational Yoto cards that come printed with their own artwork (and have cute pixelated images that show up on the tiny display for each track listing). The basic mechanism is an internet-connected speaker with a card slot. My 8-year-old can plug headphones into it and listen to any audiobook in her library without me needing to hand over my own devices or worry about locking down other apps on her iPad. My 5-year-old can use it fluidly even though she can’t read yet. It’s chunky enough that we’re not constantly losing it. It is small enough to be comfortably portable, for car rides or walks or hanging around in the backyard. Because of that, my kids have unlimited access to it - at bedtime, in the mornings, or at any other part of their day when they want music or podcasts or stories. Other than a small pixelated window the Mini uses to display a digital clock and information about what track is playing, it has no screen. The device solves a specific problem for our family: It’s an audio player my kids can control entirely by themselves. ![]() We own two Yoto Minis, actually, one for each of my children (who are currently 5 and 8). And, with no hesitation - like, I am loading up the website to buy a replacement the instant I realize it’s gone - the Yoto Mini. One or two pairs of shoes and a few specific items of clothing that’ve been improbably reliable. A couple particularly beloved stuffed animals. There is a very, very short list of kid-centric things I would instantly repurchase if one of them got left behind in a hotel room or dropped in a lake or destroyed through some other unforeseeable chaos. Photo-Illustration: The Strategist Photo: Retailer ![]()
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