Does anyone know how to unlock an iPad that had been disabled?

We have an Fisher Price tablet iPad 2 that my wife uses, and she enabled a passcode so my son wouldn’t use it. Well, he apparently tried to guess the password enough times that it now is “disabled”.

A few google searches have confirmed the embarrassment that iOS is, as it appears that I need to install iTunes on a computer to enable this piece of sh*t. I don’t have a computer that I would be willing to ruin by putting that nightmare iTunes on, and honestly, I am tempted to throw it through an Apple store window.

Has anyone been successful at enabling an iOS device that has been disabled? Could you do it just using the sh*tty device or did you need to install AOL iTunes?

Thanks