Video Baby Monitor Recall: Two Babies Strangled in Cords
First off, let me just say that it is truly terrible that two babies died because they strangled on a cord.
Now, if you need to distance yourself such a long distance or for such a long time from your completely dependent baby/small child that you decide you need to use a video baby monitor; then I believe that you might really need to:
a) reevaluate your priorities as a parent – did you have a child so that you could leave it in another room, across the house from you, so that you could sit on your rump and watch it from a small tv screen?
b) consider a nanny – if *you* don’t want to/can’t give constant physical/spacial attention to your child (for whatever reason), then hiring a nanny to fill in for you would seem a much more loving and warm option than spending $300 on a tiny tv whose cords could kill your child.
That is all.
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And yes, I realize that my thoughts are biased and coming from a point of view that doesn’t feel that creating and maintaining a distance from your children that necessitates a tv monitoring system is ‘right’ – biologically, logically, evolutionarily, instinctively or (on some level) ethically. Is that point of view insensitive to certain classes of people? Maybe. But, we’re not talking about a parent who can’t figure out how to not work or to work from home and must create and maintain a distance from their child via daycare or institutional daycare (school); we’re talking about people who are at home with their children, but insist on isolating their children from the rest of the family, then spending $300 (or more, actually) on technology that helps maintain this *unnecessary* isolation.
That is all.
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If you’ve got constructive things to say in your comment, go for it. If you just want to tell me how ‘pie-in-the-sky’ my stay-at-home status is and how lucky I am to be able to make such generalizations (no need to remind me of my luck), I don’t need your comment.
That is all.
