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This is pretty cool, but I wonder if toddlers nowadays even understand what a cord phone is. After all, playing is often just mimicking adult behavior, and adul
by brap 5y ago
This is pretty cool, but I wonder if toddlers nowadays even understand what a cord phone is. After all, playing is often just mimicking adult behavior, and adults aren't using corded phones anymore, so to a child this might not be a fun toy. A cool toy for adults, though.
- TotempaaltJ 5y agoPlaying is often mimicking adult behaviour, but certainly not always... They may not use the phone "correctly" but kids have a special skill of using anything as a toy.
- mxxx 5y agoWeirdly enough there’s one of the original versions of this toy in the toy box at our local pub and my three year old saw it and immediately knew that it was a phone. I have absolutely no idea how.
- aembleton 5y agoMaybe they have one at nursery
- lotsofpulp 5y agoMovies/tv shows/books?
- dspillett 5y ago> I have absolutely no idea how. Nurseries have a lot of old books, and TV channels repeat a lot of old cartoons & other shows, so a kid may be exposed to old-style phones in passing quite a lot. And “in passing” is enough at that stage, when a growing brain readily hoovers up any and all available information.
- bluGill 5y agoWe made an effort to not expose our son to that at a young age (no screens at all, and we didn't send him to daycare) He still figured out the first landline phone he saw.
- minhazm 5y agoPossibly the shape. The symbol/icons for a phone are still old style corded phones, even an an iPhone.
- bitwize 5y agoWell, even the most modern smartphone uses an icon of an analog landline handset to represent "make/end a call". She may have recognized that.
- jedberg 5y agoSesame Street still includes their old sketches with corded phones. I'll bet other kids TV does too. I've found the answer to pretty much every "how do they know that?" is "A TV show". Although now that the older one can read and is in-person school, the answer is increasingly "Books" or "Someone at school".
- waxdotrun 5y agoI think this is actually targeted at adults. The only pic with a person in it is an adult. Think "secret santa" gift.
- jaywalk 5y ago> I wonder if toddlers nowadays even understand what a cord phone is. It's the thing they see at grandma and grandpa's house.
- gambiting 5y agoUhm, at like my grandma and grandpa's house - sure. But my kid(who is 7 months now) won't see one at my mum's house, because....why would he. She's already young enough to be cellphone-only, landlines are just an ancient relic(that yes, my 80 year old grandma still uses, sure).
- jaywalk 5y agoWell, my parents (who are in their late 60s and grandparents) still do have a landline. An actual, honest to goodness analog AT&T landline. I've been trying to get them to at least switch it over to their cable company, but they are stuck in their ways.
- ndespres 5y agoMy 1-year old had a toy with a small plastic non-functioning telephone. After 1 demonstration where we pantomimed using a phone, he started picking up everything and holding it to his ear. Fruit, books, other toys, pretending it were a telephone and trying to speak into it. Every time he did this, we'd play along and say "Hello?" into our own nearby imaginary phone. He got a reaction from us that reinforced the game. Eventually I gave him a real handset from an old rotary phone to play with. He might never have the experience of calling someone on it, but babies are at least able to figure out pretty quickly how to use these things in play.