Newborn-to-Toddler Apptivity™ Seat
December 5th, 2013Television and other entertainment media should be avoided for infants and children under age 2. A child’s brain develops rapidly during these first years, and young children learn best by interacting with people, not screens.
—American Academy of Pediatrics
In other news: Screen Time Resulting in Children Turning Up to Doctors with Motor Delays, Decreased Muscle Strength.
This is madness.
Via: Fisher-Price:
Fisher-Price Newborn-to-Toddler Apptivity™ Seat
Soothing, entertaining and technology all in one great grow-with-me seat for baby! Lock your iPad® device inside the case to protect from dribbles and drool. Play and learning are at baby’s fingertips, with free apps you can download for your iPad®. Look for apps with black and white images to enhance visual skills, soothing apps with nature scenes, learning apps and more. With all the fun and excitement of apps, this seat still has all the great features of a baby seat: Overhead toys, motion, adjustable 3-position seat recline, rotating toy bar and a mirror that reflects baby’s image when your iPad® device is removed. Easy adjustments let you extend the use from newborn to toddler. Durable case for all generations of iPad®, excluding iPad® mini. iPad® device not included.
… and Coming Soon: The Adult Apptivity Seat for your Autonomous Commuter Vehicle. Just settle in, diddle your apps, and drool contentedly as your ACV drives you to work. Resistance is futile! You will be assimilated.
Diddle your apps. har!
And I foresee the market for an ADHD version of the Newborn to Toddler Apptivity Seat, where at pre-programmed intervals, “medication” will be administered to the little captive:
http://www.naturalnews.com/043139_ADHD_psychiatric_insanity_overdiagnosis.html
Who to be angry at the %$#*’s that market this destruction or the %$#*’s who eagerly feed their little one to it.
Apptivity™, it’s captivity for the feeble and docile. They’re not only willing to sell something with this name so similar to captivity, but it seems they want customers to make the association. Apptivity™ – so much more humane than a cage. Bad parents keep their kids locked in the closet. Good parents give them a screen.
@pookie So true and conveniently the 20% of boys most likely to be diagnosed as ADHD will already be sitting in one of these.
The picture of the product makes me feel embarrassed to be human. Imagine if an intelligent alien lifeform intercepted a commercial for this – they would likely write off the whole planet.