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# The best Apps of 2011 for babysitting your kids.
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/the-best-apps-of-2011-for-babysitting-your-kids/
- Published: 2012-01-10T16:20:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:27:55.000Z
- Description: I don’t know about you, but I simply can’t get enough of Best of the Year lists. I found the New Yorker’s list of best apps of 2011 amusing, not because the games on it were enlightening, but because the premise is this: here are the games that best pacify screaming children. I particularly enjoyed
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I don’t know about you, but I simply can’t get enough of Best of the Year lists. I found [the New Yorker’s list of best apps of 2011](http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2011/12/jetpack-joyride-my-year-in-apps.html?ref=killscreen.com) amusing, not because the games on it were enlightening, but because the premise is this: here are the games that best pacify screaming children. I particularly enjoyed the description of *Jetpack Joyride*.

> *I honestly don’t know what this game is. Whenever my kids play it, they don’t let me get near the phone. It’s both the perfect game and the worst game.*

I totally agree with that last point, but because it is such an awful distraction.

\[[New Yorker](http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2011/12/jetpack-joyride-my-year-in-apps.html?ref=killscreen.com), [img](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/wireless/image/article/119/1191329/jetpack-joyride-20110829110146314.jpg?ref=killscreen.com)\]

*\-Jason Johnson*