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reven:
tehnofreak stop being a douche. theyre kids, they do get up to mischief. im sure you did things when you were younger your parents didnt know about.
if a parent has to run to the bathroom, should they lock their 2 year old in their room?
as a parent you keep all the dangerous stuff out of reach, but you dont go to extremes and hide everything away, if you did you wouldnt have anything in your house.
you need to leave stuff out so you can teach them, this is not a toy, you need to respect this. at 2 this is difficult to do, and they dont know until they play/explore.
sure if the same kid is doing it over and over the parent should teach them not to. but if they do it once, meh theyre exploring/learning no harm done.
disclaimer: i have a 3 year old, who my dad looks after on fridays (hes a preschool mon to tuesday) when he was 2 he called 111 on one such friday. he's never done that since, and doesnt play with phones anymore. we have lots of phones everywhere, lots of remotes, lots of tech etc, he doesnt really play with that stuff, mostly he just pulls out the couch cushion to jump on them or play with his thomas toys. i.e. hes learnt to leave that stuff alone, but he did so by first trying.
gez theyre kids.
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toprob: As a soon-to-be grandad, I get a kick out of contemplating all those folk who think they can transfer their clever organisational and time-management skills to raising a family. To answer the original question, most parents would have let the baby play with the phone at some stage, whereas funnily enough not a lot would let them play with the drano.
If you can't imagine the time when you'll hand the closest object to the baby just to grab five minutes to yourself, then you are not yet a parent, and have a real treat to look forward to. I wish I could do it all over again...
alasta:
As someone who doesn't currently have or intend to have children I will openly admit to being one of these ignoramuses that you speak of, but that doesn't change the fact that you are ultimately responsible for any damage, disturbance or intrusion caused by your children. The unapologetic "not my problem" attitude of the parents in this thread is deeply worrying.
toprob:alasta:
As someone who doesn't currently have or intend to have children I will openly admit to being one of these ignoramuses that you speak of, but that doesn't change the fact that you are ultimately responsible for any damage, disturbance or intrusion caused by your children. The unapologetic "not my problem" attitude of the parents in this thread is deeply worrying.
Yes, you are right, but what I'm trying to say is that you can't prevent a lot of things your kids get up to, it's a learning experience, and parents are always going to be two steps behind, especially with their first child. Being a parent in this situation means finally understanding the meaning of some things -- like the word 'apoplexy'. The things a two-year-old can manage to get into can boggle your mind.
A parent who had finally got a moment's peace by showing the baby the fun noises the phone buttons make is not going to be too bothered by the fairness of it all, but that's life.
But I think the attitude you are seeing here has more to do with the severity of the crime -- I don't ever remember having a baby call me, but I can't count the number of calls in a week from telemarketers who think it is appropriate to ring me, when obviously it isn't.
Of course things have changed since I had young children, the phone was big and ugly and lived on a table, we didn't have devices all over the place, in fact we didn't even have a TV until the kids were a lot older. Maybe I wouldn't want to have to do it over again, after all.
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Zeon: Lol would that 0900 redirect actually work? Could just imagine the flood of Nigerian applications for VOIP numbers if so lol.
kfella2000:Zeon: Lol would that 0900 redirect actually work? Could just imagine the flood of Nigerian applications for VOIP numbers if so lol.
No I dont think it would. The cost of the call would go to the one that initiated it which in this case would be the one receiving the call not the baby. I have a voip system here myself and it has many features that would be handy to have like a pin number to make all calls and various other types of calls like cellphones and overseas calls only etc. If all systems had that then that would cut a lot of nuisance calls from babies. I see the OP has a voip system he might like to check if he has a portal to log into and see if he has the ability to block numbers calling his number and each time a baby rings add that number to the list. Oops I see kiwiharry has beat me to the blacklist idea.
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