[daniel1212]

Excerpts from longer paywalled article.

Teaching girls how to care to infants should be a good thing as it can help promote child birth and prepare one for it, which used to be done in-family when they were large, and sisters cared for sisters, in contrast to single child households that are the norm among liberals if they even have any.

On the other hand, it can promote an aversion to children (and birth control or abortion) in a society in which for "working with your hands" typically mostly means video games and social gab.

But of course, soon there will "gender fluid" infants is this one is not already unisex. The new "Barbie doll" can be Ken.

And a future goal I think radical liberals would favor are robot teachers (supplementing unionized teachers) programmed by the State, and keeping an "eye" (and ear) on all the children's responses. How much easier to catch a "homophobic" remark and thus have a visit with parents, warning them of the damage they must be doing, since the government health care can mean assuming oversight over their psychological health.

Of course, monitoring of how you raise your children (via implantable chips and audio) would be even more idea for control. But I think maybe that is going too tin foil hat.

[MayflowerMadam]

One of the funniest “Frasier” episodes was when Niles had to use a bag of flour as a baby to see if he’d be a good parent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9B8w57zuAY

[HartleyMBaldwin]

“The Education of Tigress McCardle” by C. M. Kornbluth.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

If the software in the baby locks up, just shake it to reboot?

[nuconvert]

Is it assigned equally to boys & girls?

[Tax-chick]

And it resists baby-sitting by a willing relative: the doll only responds to the wristband worn by the student who brought it home.

So it "simulates" the experience of an unmarried, abandoned mother with no family or friends. One of the great things about a newborn baby is that he doesn't care whether he's held by mom or dad or brothers, grandparents, a neighbor, or the whole Spanish choir ... unless it's feeding time and the mother is breastfeeding.

Also, the article didn't mention the World's Greatest Invention (discovered it with my 5th child): the electric vibrating baby-bouncer. It's a little sling-chair on a metal frame with a battery-powered motor that makes it vibrate while the baby sleeps peacefully for hours and hours.

[ClearCase_guy]

Is this just for deterring teen pregnancies? Or is also about population control in general and convincing people not to reproduce?

[Chickensoup]

The goals of these trainig devices is to implant an aversion to children.

They have been in use since the eighties, carrying eggs that make noises, babies dolls that make noises.

Because they do not tell the truth about babies, they are fun and give back.

another way to genocide.

[Vermont Lt]

My daughter has a three month old. Her husband was recently deployed to Germany for a month long exercise. So we have been going over to help with her real baby. It comes back like riding a bike.

And it reminds me why we did not have a third—we would have been outnumbered.

And it is amazing how quickly one recognizes the different cries. My daughter was amazed at how I just picked up the little girl and got her to go to sleep on my chest.

I don’t know how “kids” do it without any help.

[OrioleFan]

A co-worker’s husband is a police officer. One night on patrol he noticed a car where the teens were tossing around what looked like a baby. He pulled the car over and found out it was one of these simulators. So he gives these kids a lecture on car seats and threatens to call their teacher. Put the fear of God in them. Great story.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

This sort of thing has been going on for a while, and had some really bizarre psychological stuff involved with it.

In one high school, the students carried 5 pound bags of flour, and male students started competing with each other as to who could puncture those bags. Simulated infanticide.

However, in other schools with a high pregnancy rate, real babies had to be excluded from some classrooms not out of animosity or noise, but because both girl and boy students wanted to fawn over them.

[Reily]

Does it later demand the car keys then run off a simulated stripper or garage band guitarist?

[HotKat]

As a teenager, I babysat a lot. One of my first jobs was working as a receptionist in a pediatrician’s office.
We have two Cavalier King Charles Spaniels.

[Leep]

I almost electrocuted myself trying to give my robot baby a bath!

[Leep]

Husband:Why is our robot baby black..is there something you are not telling me?

[Mr Radical]

a fantastically sophisticated, computer-programmed doll that costs up to $1,000 to replace if you lose it

I'd be tempted to smash it and hand back the pieces, "it's been aborted."

[Deplorable American1776]

Bookmark for later...

[Ouderkirk]

Were this assignment given to my children we would be returning it to the school the same day.

This is wrong on so many levels.

[rockrr]

I always thought that the ‘infant simulator’ experiment was an invention of the eugenics folks. They designed them to make the experience (mimicking the care of an infant) as stressful and distasteful as possible to indoctrinate children against having babies.

[SheepWhisperer]

Here’s an idea...
Give the kids a rifle simulator (nerf gun)
A copy of the constitution, declaration of independence, photos from concentration camps where guns were confiscated and a parental tutorial for three weeks of simulated concentrating camp life.

THAT’LL LEARN YA
=o)

[GreenHornet]

“Just like a real baby, you eventually kind of can tell — that’s a fussy, I-just-need-to-be-rocked cry or that’s a really hungry cry,” says Samantha Forehand, marketing communications manager for Realityworks, the small Wisconsin company that makes them.

Wouldn't it be cheaper to just bring home a Democrat?