For those willing to completely disregard the warnings about the effects of bright screens on developing minds, there’s a charming variety of plush protective holders.
https://www.amazon.com/Tabbeez-Stuffed-Animal-Tablet-Tablets/dp/B00LTC010C
I recall seeing one of these on some “worst products ever” list, but can’t seem to find it at the moment.
Why would you need to cutsie up the amazing magical tablet?
I have to admit, I get extremely anxious when someone wants to hold my phone. Mainly because I don’t have a significant other, and I don’t trust strangers enough to let it go.
This isn’t live from the White House?
Indeed. Kids are such babies sometimes.
At first I thought this meant you can’t always have a quiet baby when you want a quiet baby.
A first hard lesson for a parent.
Also magical extending arms.
Only my wife gets to hold my phone when I’m not around, and only immediate family get to hold it at all. It’s not negotiable.
While I was working I deeply resented having to have a phone. Now I’ve retired it is different because I can keep in touch with things wherever I am. But it goes into silent mode at 22:00 and doesn’t come out till 08:00, and I have almost everything in dark mode.
Could have been the Campaign for Commercial Free Childhood, they do bad product roundups called the TOADYs. They have a great mission around reducing advertising, corporate access to kids and commercialism. Their screentime stuff gets a little overboard for me, though. I appreciate the message of “you can’t just stick your kid in front of a screen all day” and their offerings of alternative activities are helpful, but when it verges into absolutes, it loses me.
Ours too. Screens are a baby eye magnet, which is why we don’t let her play with our phones and the TV stays off when she is up.* I think it’s the bright lights and movement that is so entrancing.
*except one time a month ago when she woke up way earlier than expected from her nap and I sat her in my lap while I desperately searched for a save point in Kingdom Hearts II. She was a zombie for all 5 minutes it took.
Yes, why won’t people turn their phone sideways? It was hard to watch.
Ouch.
Obviously, that’s a valid exception.
More proof that a baby’s cry is most likely fake in order to get something from you.
And also,
“Damn, what a gullible breed.” --Agent K
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