Posted on 01/18/2020 5:39:25 AM PST by daniel1212
Today, the RealCare Baby 3 infant simulator is a fantastically sophisticated, computer-programmed doll that costs up to $1,000 to replace if you lose it. (I know because I had to sign a waiver; Annas school has six of them, provided through a grant from a local education foundation.) The student wears a corresponding wristband that logs his or her responses to the baby through a radio frequency identification tag. Then she and most of the caregivers are female has to determine what the baby needs, based on distinctly different cries. Just like a real baby, you eventually kind of can tell thats a fussy, I-just-need-to-be-rocked cry or thats a really hungry cry, says Samantha Forehand, marketing communications manager for Realityworks, the small Wisconsin company that makes them.
The fake baby must be fed, burped, changed, and soothed, and though its needs may seem random, its patterns are real. The programming is based on the habits of real babies, logged by real parents. There are 14 different programs with easy, medium, or hard settings selected or randomized by a teacher before the baby is sent off with its caretaker on a Friday night. A weekend immersion program is recommended; by Sunday, the students are usually crying, too
The RealCare Baby has a patented neck with sensors that can detect if its head is not supported properly, prompting a unique cry that issues an ominous warning. It also registers three other abuses shaking the baby, holding it upside down, or physical abuse and records neglect if the student doesnt tend to it. Unlike an egg or a sack of flour, this baby gives reports on how it has been treated. And it resists baby-sitting by a willing relative: the doll only responds to the wristband worn by the student who brought it home. Thats the genius and the curse of it. If she fails, everyone will know the maternal guilt is built right in.
My daughter was infinitely patient with the baby, named Lila, but she quickly adopted the habits of a harried mom...By the third day, she was frustrated that she couldnt find time to take a shower...I watched the stress creeping up on my daughter and tried to be a good grandmother.
I remembered that pressure there was no escape. I hated that she felt it, already. ...This baby never had a dirty diaper. Unlike real babies, RealCare Babies are fluid-free. They dont consume, spill, spit, or emit anything, let alone shoot it across the room in projectile fashion. Yes, Lila took a long time to burp, I granted. But at least she didnt spit up all over herself afterward and need a complete wardrobe change every single time, even in the middle of the night, ...
Anna has always been a natural with children shes just like my mother in that way and her devotion to a fake baby was remarkable. As a bonus, she suddenly seemed to recognize all the things I was doing for her. My independent, chronically dissatisfied teenager was being appreciative.
The RealCare Baby is used in 67 percent of school districts in the country...Whether this endeavor actually deters teen pregnancies is an open question.
For liberals, it would be the latter. Did they mention this droid has zero carbon emissions?
yeah, that was hilarious. Fraser was damn funny at times.
A comedian once said something like your parenting is really tested when you have to go from man-to-man to zone coverage.
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.
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.
Does it later demand the car keys then run off a simulated stripper or garage band guitarist?
Do you mean, that week old roadkill dead skunk smell?
That one?
Well, remarkably similar is some way to the RealCare baby is the RealCareStudent model, funded by George Soros. It is very demanding and and is prone by nature to dictate. And protests all that it finds offensive, which is much, being triggered by everything from cultural appropriation to hamburgers to cars to Christian crosses, and avoids having children, and tends to support aborting them. How the professor cares for it via (as reported by integrated chips) determines whether they get tenure or not.
Yet we all complain too much.
Two of my cousins were fussy babies. Nothing worked except “ride in the car.” Even at 3am, Auntie would take them for a spin, then carry them back in the house like she was carrying explosives.
Luckily most babies settle for a walk in the nursery.
As a teenager, I babysat a lot. One of my first jobs was working as a receptionist in a pediatricians office.
We have two Cavalier King Charles Spaniels.
Can we produces some other products to likewise demonstrate the hardships they cause?
Such as:
Real Care Illegal Alien
Real Care Refugee
Real Care Social Justice Warrior
For boys they need a, "programable wife" simulator. She will nag you when you go fishing instead of doing yard work. I can only imagine the millions of lines of code that it would take to accurately portray marriage as it really is! JK ladies
I almost electrocuted myself trying to give my robot baby a bath!
Husband:Why is our robot baby black..is there something you are not telling me?
Now THAT’S not just “dry” humor, it’s PARCHED!
LOL :)!
We have 4 children and fostered another one.
The foster son was rescued from a drug abusing family. He is career military with a great wife and two children of his own, living a very success and prosperous life.
The next two are Marines, one is married and one is not.
Non of them carry any debt, they have paid cash for everything they have. The married one ( married in August) has $26,000 saved for a house expecting to have around $60k at the end of the year.
My wife home schooled them all and taught them how not to make common mistakes and so far they are doing wonderful.
Watching my two sons graduate from basic training and then SOI was one of the greats moments of my life.
Seeing the others on straight and narrow paths has brought more satisfaction than anything I ever imagined or dreamed about.
The world lies. The culture is driven by sin and despair.
My relationship with my wife of almost 30 years is stronger every year and more fulfilling than the lustful imaginations the world wishes to destroy commitment and contentment with.
I guess your comment was probably tongue-in-cheek but it certainly is the common way of thinking.
Years ago, my daughter was assigned one of these “babies”...Probably not as sophisticated as those of today, but the school could read if it was mistreated....
I didn’t know about it and when I got home from work the first day, the “baby” in a basket in the living room...I just picked up the basket and tossed it onto my daughter’s bed in her room....
I had to go to the school to explain what had happened when my daughter came home crying...
Harcourt Fenton "Harry" Mudd.
With "designer babies" that could be "explained" as mixing models up.
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