Check out Happy Baby iPhone application

Version 1.0 Features:
– English alphabets are displayed sequentially (like flash cards).
– Alphabets are pronounced (Optional switch).
– Pause button to stop at an alphabet
– Reset button to start over
– Timer can be adjusted to delay display of alphabets

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=324385183&mt=8

I have a 2.5 year old and I always have my iPhone with me. Like other parents, I often find myself in the store or traveling with my child and he loves electronics and in particular playing educational games on my iPhone.

I would love to be able to disable app’s and browsing and only allow him access to a few key features on the iPhone. He already knows how to send text messages, he can change basic settings and so giving him my phone to play games on also risks him getting into other apps.

While he won’t be getting his own anytime soon, it would be nice to be able enable controls on my phone so I can have peace of mind when he picks it up.

I agree completely and this is why the responsibility of parental controls should be entirely the responsibility of AT@T. With ISPs being capable of blocking content from the server side as well as common network hardware being capable of the same it would be far easier to set something like this up when a trained agent activates the phone rather then after the phone leaves the store. With the account changes made directly with AT@T only the parent would be able to make changes to the account and this could be done over the phone.