xpluswearer said:
1. Baby Monitors
2. wet bed monitors
3. Apps on your I phone or I pad or smart phone with a sensor placed in diaper to signal a change is needed.
4. computers in general.
5. cameras.
6. shopping services.
7. delivery services.
8. nanny's
9. day care services.
10. Apps for living and lifestyle and parenting.
11. automatic swings and automatic style toys.
12. Televisions and gaming consoles.
13. online and app games.
14. apps for learning such as hooked on phonics and leapfrog If that is what its called.
gee shall I continue....
As far as larger diapers for children there are a need and that ONLY need is for truly incontinent children not lazy parents whom keep kids in diapers just to not potty train the kids oh boo hoo you may have to wash a few extra loads of laundry or do some additional work would not want to take your face away from your I phone now would we huh? or you partaking in your bad habits now would we? or your work oh god forbid you have to come home and deal with being a parent now huh? If you cannot handle being a parent then you must stop having sexual intercourse practice abstinence purchase condoms or get fixed! Being a parent is a huge and massive responsibility for the rest of your life hope you know that before you get in bed.
1. Been around a LONG time, in the past they tied a string to the child with a bell to know if the child woke up. While the tech is making it BETTER something to alert parents to an awake child has been around centuries.
2. Again, something that's nice but not necessary and is just a way for tech companies to try to make money. Another thing that's only truly needed for special needs that impact a childs ability to cry but doesn't hurt other children that have parents gullible enough to buy it.
3. Never even seen this but cool I guess. I could also see this product being useful for children with vocal limitations such as extreme cleft palates.
4. What do computers in general have to do with parent-themed tech? Also not something that has to do with parents TODAY...plenty of parents of today had home computers in their homes when they were born.
5. okay? What did the big bad camera do to you because those have been around since my great great grandparents time? Nothing to do with parenting getting "lazy" now like is being claimed.
6. Shopping services have been around in metropolitan areas since before cars were a thing.
7. AGain, delivery services (especially diaper services) were performed with horse and buggy. No relation to laziness they are a sensible service if you can afford it.
8. People who could afford it having other people care for their kids goes back as far as recorded time.
9. Again, available to our parents grandparents etc. They are only more prevalent in the US now because the economy makes it very difficult to survive and thrive on 1 income. It's not lazy to have to go to work and therefore need to use a day care service.
10. Today they are apps, to our grandparents it was magazines and newspaper articles, further back, depending on ethnicity, was likely oral tales told by an elder. People look at, read, and listen to things they are interested in and parents tend to be interested in parenting. Not sure how casual research is lazy.
11. Another thing our parents and some of our grandparents had, before that people used rockers that they could use a minimal amount of pressure to rock or various inventive ways of rocking such as tieing the rocker to a tree branch when windy. Parents don't generally use products like this to be lazy, they do it because they are multitasking to get the basics of life done. That extra load of laundry (more like 2-4 imo) has to get done sometime, along with all the other tasks that need done when you're getting minimal sleep.
12. Another product that has been around way too long to claim it's affecting parenting TODAY. Are you from the past? Half this list might have been viable in the 40s. As long as the things put on the screen are educational and age-appropriate a little screen time is not the end of the world. Parents today are using tv a LOT less than they did when those parents were kids on average.
13. Todays online game was yesterdays ball on a string attached to a paddle or, again depending on ethnicity, the pasts give kid flint and granite and watch their laughable attempt at an arrowhead. Both promote hand-eye coordination, the difference is most children's games today have some form of educational element to them again like the arrowhead did and the paddle didn't. It's not more or less lazy, it again falls into the "get the kid to do something so I can try to keep up with the mess" that has existed for as long as human children have.
14. So you'd rather we waste paper again? (aside from the fact that HoP was a vcr tape and before that cassette tape program) How is teaching children lazy???? You make absolutely no sense with this one. Teaching is lazy now? What?
Maybe you didn't mean this to come off as personal against me but if so you're wayyyyy off the mark. I mention special needs so much because I do have a special needs child, he did need to be in diapers longer and I honestly wish I'd found the abdl lifestyle sooner because I would have had a much easier time finding larger size dipes for him. As it was we used cloth for most of the time he was in dipes (until 5) so I did a lot more than 1 extra load of laundry per day and didn't even have a smartphone or internet at the time. It's real easy to sit at your computer and judge parents you don't know isn't it? My son went (and sometimes still has to go) with me to work, I'm just thankful I have a job where that's a possibility and was able to homeschool him until he was able to go to school without extra stress (many elements of public school were very difficult for him). If you think people who can't parent without the things you listed, especially day care, should not have sex and get fixed maybe people who can't comment on the internet without attacking people should get their fingers fixed. Also it's amazing to me that we are on a DIAPER forum and you're equating using diapers, especially on special needs, with being lazy...do you wear them because you are too lazy to use the toilet?