Posted on 08/13/2013 7:26:31 PM PDT by Morgana
“I see the camera move on us,’ Gilbert said.”
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Gads! That’s unnerving...
This is why I put in a *wired* camera, and used a low-end monitor for daughter. DD’s room was not near the master bedroom due to house layout, so the monitor was useful for hearing if the baby was crying or fooling around in the middle of the night (so she could be intercepted before she injured herself trying to get out of her crib, for instance). The camera was to monitor her activities without actually having to go into the room (and thus get her excited to play with Daddy instead of taking the nap/sleep she needed). The monitor and camera were only on when baby was in her room to sleep.
The monitor also made for a convenient, if one-way, communicator so whichever parent was in taking care of baby could call for assistance if needed, and so I could intervene if the now-ex-wife was starting to lose her temper (she was a monster, and eventually couldn’t be trusted with putting the baby to sleep).
We’re any of the kids you raised disabled? This little girl is disabled and has had surgery. I think her parents did well to keep a monitor on her in case she had a problem.
We had a child with some health issues. If she had become ill in the middle of the night, I could not have heard her just due to the acoustics of the house. Yes, we used a monitor. No camera, though; I’m not sure they had those back then. These devices have their uses.
I've heard that those things can get pretty big.
They can have their uses. We put on proximity monitors on our kids when we first went to Disney World. If the children were beyond 25 feet from us, a piercing alarm would go off on the child.
In a crowded park we simply didn't want to risk being separated. It never happened but we felt better for the alarms. Would have been a pretty big surprise for a random pervert in their last moments on Earth.
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