First, I'd like to thank I've Changed My Name to Mommy for the Over The Top blogger award.
(I appreciate the thought, even if I'm breaking the rules by not playing along.)
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Have you ever seen something called BabyPlus? It looks like a fanny pack and plays rhythm patterns for your unborn baby's entertainment and educational development.
My favorite part is the slogan : Your womb...the perfect classroom
Am I the only one who thinks this is totally weird?
I assume my belly is pretty happy being left alone in relative peace and quiet. I'm sure she is already pretty annoyed by countless repetitions of Wheels on the Bus and The Ants Go Marching On (Or is that just me?).
Also available is the Lullabelly. Slogan:"The first investment in your child's future"
I think I'll just put the money into a college fun.
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Parents Lie to Kids More Often Than They Realize - This article just reminded me of a mom I saw in action recently at the playground. She threatened to use speed dial to call Santa if her daughter didn't start behaving.
This appeared to be a pretty common tactic in their house.
I'll award some style points for creativity, even if I have my doubts about long term effectiveness.
However, I won't mind Santa's digits if she's has them.
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I saw the best headline yesterday "Washington Bails Out Detroit". I thought it was a pretty genius reference to the Redskins football team loss to the Detroit Lions (who didn't have a single win last season and were on a 19 game losing streak).
I guess we're just doing our part to improve Detroit moral.
I wasn't actually able to find the article to link to it, but I think this marks the first time in history that I have ever searched for a sports article online. I'm thinking it may also be the last.
Also on the Redskins topic, doesn't it seem like an odd choice for the US capital to have a potentially offense team mascot? It kind of seems like we should be leading the trend away from images and names that potentially piss off Native Americans.
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And I'm sure that was more than enough randomness for one week.
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Happy Tuesday folks!
18 comments:
Erm...I guess I 'creatively' tell my daughter things when in fits of panic at a park too. :) When you get Santa's digits, pass em along.
The womb is the perfect classroom. I used to sleep in class all the time. In the womb, no body woke me up or threatened to hold me for detention.
The marketers sure do like to prey on the enthusiastic pregnant folk, don't they? Thank goodness your enthusiasm stops before it heads to the land of gullible :)
I've often wondered why sports teams haven't had to change their names. Everyone else has to bow down to political correctness.
I talked to my baby when it was still in "the classroom" but I sure wasn't reciting math facts or conjugating verbs. Mostly I was telling it to please go to sleep and stop moving it around because mommy really needed some sleep.
As long as the words "investment," "education" or "future" appear in the branding somewhere, moms everywhere will feel inadequate if they don't provide their children with these opportunities.
I also enjoyed pulling Santa's name into it. Christmas is very magical with little children. We had deer in our yard one December. I told my kids that they were reindeer that were checking up on how well that they were behaving. SUCKERS!!
Random Tuesday at K's! Yay!
Do people really tell their children that the police are going to come get them if they don't stop throwing a tantrum?! That's horrible!
We don't lie to our kids. We even get a lot of crap for it since that means we don't "do" Santa or the Easter Bunny or the Tooth Fairy or any of their friends, and it also means we're not afraid to tell our children that we don't know something (ideas which aren't very popular with 'old school' parents). We really have just always believed like that article said-lying sends mixed messages about the truth and about being honest.
Speaking of honest-those belly music things are HONESTLY creepy. LOL.
I've seen those things too, I actually bought into it the first pregnancy by playing classical music to her in utero. Honestly, I don't think it made a difference. And now that I have an almost 2 year old I don't have the time nor do I care, lol. I like your idea of just putting the money torwards a college fund.
My SIL uses that Santa trick with her son and actually calls her father to give the kid a talking to when he's bad. Isn't that horrible?
I continue to be amazed at the vast number of products available for parents to consume for their darlings under 6 months old!
The in utero/infant educational stuff is a hot button issue for me. Why are we so interested in having them learn things faster? We're wired to be ready for certain things at certain times. Sure - it CAN be pushed - but why SHOULD it? We get so proud and excited that our children can read (or whatever skill is being pushed) at younger and younger ages, then we don't understand why kids are interested in sex, drugs, alcohol, etc. at younger and younger ages. Let them be kids. And for Pete's sake, let them be embryos and fetuses. Their job at that stage is to grow - not to 'learn'.
Sheesh.
Congrats on the award.
And lol on all others!
As to the tummy tunes... not so weird I guess, but could be atrocious if the music was annoying to you.
I do think companies try to make parents crazy with products like that .... let's let fetuses be fetuses and kids be kids. They'll learn enough soon enough!
For what it's worth, the Mayor of Detroit is Dave Bing, former NBA basketball star for the Detroit Pistons...Went into glad handing for a steel company in Motown, then started his own steel business-minority owned of course, when the big three had to buy a percentage of materials from Minority owned companies- He's stupid rich now..
Baby plus sounds like a total waste of money, just turn the volume up on the radio and you've saved yourself some money. I guess mom guilt is a great tactic for a marketing campaign.
Ah, the Santa days. I miss when my kids were young enough to believe.
bahaha. Two days ago I said a little prayer asking for forgiveness ahead of time cuz I knew I was going to lie to my child when he came home from school. I had the entire lie planned out. Usually I just lie to them off the cuff. It seems to come so natural with the kids; and then I lecture them if they lie to me!
I am a terrible mom...
"Your womb, the perfect classroom" - bwahhahhahhah! Early education has gotten out of control.
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