Ugh Meet Your Newest Charge

[Country Kids]

Their kids are 11 months and 3 so that may change over time. I do not use electronics or tablets in care. I think kids are way too dependant on them.

These kiddo's are 3 and 6

[Cat Herder]

I have had several infants trying to "enlarge" my board book images by spreading out their fingers across the screen. It is quickly becoming common. :dislike:

[nannyde]

I have had several infants trying to "enlarge" my board book images by spreading out their fingers across the screen. It is quickly becoming common. :dislike:

what's that motion called where they "knead" with their fingers? There's a name for it and I can't think of it. Too lazy to look it up when I have you.

[Cat Herder]

what's that motion called where they "knead" with their fingers? There's a name for it and I can't think of it. Too lazy to look it up when I have you.

Primitive neonatal reflex, rooting, stimming. It was part of the autonomous reflex system associated with stimulating breast milk production and let down, also maternal bonding. Now apparently it works to bond with technology.

[Blackcat31]

I have had several infants trying to "enlarge" my board book images by spreading out their fingers across the screen. It is quickly becoming common. :dislike:

I brought an Etch-A-Sketch into daycare a while back.
It sat on the table for a long time before one of my pre-Kindy boys picked it up and asked if he could play with it.

He did all the finger motions to enlarge, he swiped left and then right and tapped his finger repeatedly on the screen. Finally he looked at me and said "I think this needs charging or it's broke"

When I told/showed him "how" to use it, he did it for about 60 seconds and lost interest. :confused:

[Cat Herder]

what's that motion called where they "knead" with their fingers? There's a name for it and I can't think of it. Too lazy to look it up when I have you.

I did not think palmar applied, but maybe it does. :confused: Nothing is technically touching the palm, but still seems to stimulate a grasp response. It does seem more inline with moro (when removed)/rooting (when received).

[Homebody]

I had a 5 year old girl I started watching a year ago. She found a play phone (no batteries required) in our toys. She kept asking me "how does it work?", "what does it do?". I told her it doesn't do anything, its just for pretend - you pretend to talk to someone. She didn't understand, and just couldn't grasp the concept of it and lost interest immediately. If she saw me check a message on my phone she would ask to play on it, and I would always tell her no. She also didn't have a lot of imagination, when I got our Mega blocks she kept wanting me to tell her what to build, and the same with coloring pictures, she didn't know what to color and wanted me to tell her. I told her to build or color whatever you want, and she had a hard time with this. She couldn't stick with anything for more than 5 minutes, and got bored very easily. I just found it so sad.

[Josiegirl]

When I told/showed him "how" to use it, he did it for about 60 seconds and lost interest. :confused:

Kind of the opposite side of the spectrum but I bought a hand-crank radio for our emergency supplies. My 9 yo dcb, who's an electronics junkie, was totally enthralled with it and begged his mom for one. ::

[Mom2Two]

That baby video is both scary and disgusting...and funny in a dark kind of way.

None of us have a smart phone with service (DS has one that he uses kinda like an ipad), but it's getting harder! More and more store promotions REQUIRE an iphone. You can't apply at some of the part time jobs without scanning on your iphone. What the heck?