Posted on 10/07/2006 5:14:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Apparently, the pimp-my-ride craze is now hitting grocery carts. A New Zealand firm is test-marketing brightly colored plastic shopping carts designed for children. Each cart seats two, has a top-load overhead storage bin and comes with small a DVD player in the dashboard. The TV Kart, which resembles a cage (one would hope that is purely coincidental), offers Barney, The Wiggles and Bob the Builder. Children are now able to watch television from the comfort of home, in the car on the way to the grocery store, while at the grocery store, in the car on the way home from the grocery store, and once again when finally back at home. If you could rig a pulley from the refrigerator to the living room, the little darlings might never have reason to leave a sitting position. Technological wonders aside, we must ask, is this a good thing? Avid football fans might shout "Yes!" but these are children we are talking about, not armchair quarterbacks. A grandfather in Atlanta, where the carts are on trial, told National Public Radio that he loved the TV Kart because it keeps his grandson quiet. Yes, silence is golden, but increasingly, it appears to be a rather constraining world in which to be a child. Sit still for your Baby Einstein, mommy needs to talk on the phone. Sit still for your Sesame Street hour, mommy needs to work. Sit still for Barney, mommy needs to grocery-shop. It was on trips to and from the grocery store that our youngest learned to read. She followed the song lyrics that came with a Randy Travis tape. Sure, her early vocabulary included words like heartache, railroad, whiskey and lonesome, but the point is that kids can learn a lot without their faces glued to screens.
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Forget the kids, can I get one of these for my husband?
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