I’ve been surfing around for different baby products to give to a cousin of mine, and I stumbled on some pretty crazy stuff! I’m not sure if you all agree with me, but I sure do hope so!
The first one was a thing called ThudGuard Baby Helmets. Apparently these helmets will protect your child’s head when she/he learns to walk. As I see it, it’s not good, unless you have a very active baby (some disorder) or if your baby was born a very fragile head.
On the website it does say that “It’s normal for young children to sustain bumps and bruises occasionally as part of exploring; the problem is this kind of fall is very common in even the safest of homes and gardens. The damage to a falling toddler’s hands and knees can be an acceptable form of pain for learning but a head injury can be traumatic for both infant and parent.”
I agree with the first part, but if your baby injures it’s head very often, the child either has to go to the doctor for a checkup or you are a bad parent that doesn’t look after your child! Sure, accidents do happen, even with the best parents! My little brother injured his head quite a lot when he was a baby, but he learned from it! They have to learn to be careful with their heads in the future! So I don’t think this is a good idea to get.
The second product I found was the Giggle Bug Toddler Tracker. You put the Giggle Bug to your child and when it crawls or wander away you can press the button on the fob and the Giggle Bug on your child will make “kid-friendly” beep until you reset it.
My opinions about this are split. At one hand I feel that if you can’t get your lazy but up from the sofa to follow your baby, you shouldn’t have one. On the other hand it could come in handy when your kid is older, let’s say 2 or 3 years old, they can have quite much energy and run around the house to hide or something, then it could be useful. However, if you have more than one child it wouldn’t really work. I would suggest “pay attention” instead of getting this gadget!
The third one is quite funny actually. It’s the Baby Bottom Fan! You use this every time you change diaper on your baby, after you have cleaned the little tiny butt, you use the fan to make the butt dry (hehe) to eliminate diaper rash. I guess this tool can be useful, cause I’m sure every baby agrees with me that diaper rash isn’t very nice. Well, I guess you can either do this or just use the common ways instead!
Do you agree or disagree with me?
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at 10:23 am - 13th October 2007 Permalink
I think that you might get a better reaction from readers, especially those who are parents, by not using this kind of verbiage: ” . . . when it crawls or wander [sic] away . . . ” A baby is a human being, not an “it.” So the proper way to phrase this is ” . . . when he or she crawls or toddles away . . . “
at 11:03 am - 13th October 2007 Permalink
Thanks for the tip. I guess parent talk isn’t my thing!
at 12:51 pm - 13th October 2007 Permalink
Ha! My husband wanted to get a helmet for one of our boys when he was learning to walk! And actually the baby bottom fan is a clever idea, though how many babies will sit still long enough to use it?
at 10:40 am - 15th October 2007 Permalink
Heh that helmet is cute. I wish I’d had one when my son started walking.
at 10:24 am - 16th October 2007 Permalink
We got a little hand-held fan from the Walmarks when our son was tiny. Feeling really ahead of technology right now. If only *I* had thought to market it for this purpose!
at 6:45 am - 17th October 2007 Permalink
These are funny! But also quite useful. I like the tracker because they are good at hiding. I have five and have lost one ore two, inside the house for minutes-but they seem like hours to a parent.
at 2:19 pm - 30th October 2007 Permalink
helmet-thingy: i’d say a must have for all parents, not only those with “letter-combination-kids”, what goes up must come down - and most kids like to climb…
beepy-thingy: i’d love to have one of those, when my kid “runs” off and hides, he can be hard to find sometimes (when he doesn’t just put hes hands before hes eyes - “if i can’t see you, you can’t see me”)…
fan: what? you expect to have a kid lay still long enough to “fan” him/her dry? come on… :P
note: this is seen with “have a 2yr old son” eyes…
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