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I understand what you mean but you still have to raise your child irl. What is very interesting is that most adults with children in this decade have experience

I understand what you mean but you still have to raise your child irl. What is very interesting is that most adults with children in this decade have experienced both worlds and perhaps become too immersed in this new “virtual” environment. In the process, we might be short changing our kids. I imagine a lot of parents feel this way.

hbosch 8y ago
The absolute futurist-cynic inside me wants to reply, badly, to this statement: > you still have to raise your child irl. with the fact that increasingly I see children being strolled around with tablets mounted in front of their faces, by parents with phones in front of their faces. Imagine these strollers were self-guided, say, they were monitored and could tram children around the park while they played on their pacifying devices! I feel we aren't too far off. DJI could certainly make quite a nice stroller, I would imagine. I recently had a baby, and we had to fend off MANY attempts to gift us battery (or plug) powered baby seats -- and still we ended up with a mamaRoo[0] in our closet because my mother wouldn't take "no" for an answer. This is a device where you can strap your newborn in (!) and the chair will rock her for you, play gentle music either via the onboard memory or via Bluetooth, to soothe or quiet your baby for you. Behold the truly dystopian image on their product page[1]. Our thinking was that we wanted to keep responsibility of this task for ourselves, along with the stress, thank-you-very-much, because we wanted to experience it and we wanted our baby to experience it -- physically. But still! There are emporiums, I came to learn, full of these types of gadgets that are designed to offload the burden of parenting. With the sheer momentum of technology and the absolute hijacking of our attention spans, I can all-too-vividly imagine a world not far from now where raising your child can happen almost entirely by "remote". I fear this, of course, but I can imagine it. __ 0. https://www.4moms.com/mamaroo https://www.4moms.com/mamaroo 1. https://www.4moms.com/assets/mamaroo/ultimate_seat-602c8d008221fa8e53df2c907586d943.jpg https://www.4moms.com/assets/mamaroo/ultimate_seat-602c8d008...
- kehunt 8y ago
  It's tempting and easy (for the fortunate) to buy a Thing or and App to occupy their kids so they can have our own device time. STEM apps are educational; guilt-free, no harm. Right? But device time is robbing our children of the trials and frustrations and educational opportunities provided by the dirty, analog, political, unfair, painful and tangible-risk REAL world. When I was growing up there was a declared difference between those with an academic education and a "street" education. Now it seems the difference is between the virtual social landscape and reality.
- ux-app 8y ago
  > we ended up with a mamaRoo they're actually ok for when you need 20 minutes to cook dinner or do some other small task.
  - loriverkutya 8y ago
    We mostly used it to encourage bowel movements and it never left us disappointed.
- treis 8y ago
  > a mamaRoo That's a swing. A fancy swing, but a swing nonetheless. We've had those for decades and before electricity cradles existed for probably as long as we had furniture.

hbosch 8y ago

The absolute futurist-cynic inside me wants to reply, badly, to this statement: > you still have to raise your child irl. with the fact that increasingly I see children being strolled around with tablets mounted in front of their faces, by parents with phones in front of their faces. Imagine these strollers were self-guided, say, they were monitored and could tram children around the park while they played on their pacifying devices! I feel we aren't too far off. DJI could certainly make quite a nice stroller, I would imagine. I recently had a baby, and we had to fend off MANY attempts to gift us battery (or plug) powered baby seats -- and still we ended up with a mamaRoo[0] in our closet because my mother wouldn't take "no" for an answer. This is a device where you can strap your newborn in (!) and the chair will rock her for you, play gentle music either via the onboard memory or via Bluetooth, to soothe or quiet your baby for you. Behold the truly dystopian image on their product page[1]. Our thinking was that we wanted to keep responsibility of this task for ourselves, along with the stress, thank-you-very-much, because we wanted to experience it and we wanted our baby to experience it -- physically. But still! There are emporiums, I came to learn, full of these types of gadgets that are designed to offload the burden of parenting. With the sheer momentum of technology and the absolute hijacking of our attention spans, I can all-too-vividly imagine a world not far from now where raising your child can happen almost entirely by "remote". I fear this, of course, but I can imagine it. __ 0. https://www.4moms.com/mamaroo https://www.4moms.com/mamaroo 1. https://www.4moms.com/assets/mamaroo/ultimate_seat-602c8d008221fa8e53df2c907586d943.jpg https://www.4moms.com/assets/mamaroo/ultimate_seat-602c8d008...

kehunt 8y ago
It's tempting and easy (for the fortunate) to buy a Thing or and App to occupy their kids so they can have our own device time. STEM apps are educational; guilt-free, no harm. Right? But device time is robbing our children of the trials and frustrations and educational opportunities provided by the dirty, analog, political, unfair, painful and tangible-risk REAL world. When I was growing up there was a declared difference between those with an academic education and a "street" education. Now it seems the difference is between the virtual social landscape and reality.
ux-app 8y ago
> we ended up with a mamaRoo they're actually ok for when you need 20 minutes to cook dinner or do some other small task.
- loriverkutya 8y ago
  We mostly used it to encourage bowel movements and it never left us disappointed.
treis 8y ago
> a mamaRoo That's a swing. A fancy swing, but a swing nonetheless. We've had those for decades and before electricity cradles existed for probably as long as we had furniture.