When you think of an ankle bracelet do you think of a criminal on house arrest? Well now parents are able to get them for their infants, a company named Sproutlings has come up with a new gadget to help put anxious and nervous parents at ease. This gadget will tell the parent their infants heart rate, body temperature, and can tell if the baby is moving or in a dangerous face down sleeping position. It also observes the child over time and adjusts accordingly, it can also tell if a baby is close to waking up if noise level is too loud or if the temperature is too high or too low for the baby to continue to sleep so you can make the necessary adjustments.
Do you think this could be the future of parenting or not?
Do you have any worries about this device or any other opinions on this topic?
http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/12/tech/innovation/wearable-baby-monitors/index.html?hpt=hp_bn5
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Glad to see you replied for this discussion. Good topic but try to stay away from yes and no questions.
I think that people will look into this parenting plan in the future. I do not think this is a good idea it is to much for a child. It could break at any time and I feel like it would make parenting lazy. It is your child you should take care of it not a machine.
I think that in years to come it will be the future of parenting because it gives parents an insight to what is going on inside their infant. But to me it seams a little unsafe, it could malfunction and say something bad and or deadly is happening so you take your child to the emergency room only to find out that it was just a glitch. In some cases I can see how using this could make ones life easier though especially if you have a disabled child.
In my opinion I think that the device is something that many people will overuse and not become aware of the needed parental guidance and will rely on it and not do their job. I think the future of this device could go either way, I don't think it is a good idea because like said before people won't learn there needed parenting jobs and it could be a bad influence on the child's development and connection to their parents.
I do not think this is the future of parenting. what if the ankle bracelet has a malfunction? Even though it sounds really cool it could be very dangerous for the baby. Now a days people are becoming lazy. If people can't take care of the baby without the device, then they shouldn't be having children.
yes I would worry about the ankle bracelet being on my child non stop. I don't think it would be good for the baby to have that on him or her all the time.
Say the device cant tell if the baby is going into shock! How are the parents supposed to know if there baby is doing fine or is going into shock? If a parent is not using it then they can go straight to the hospital. If a parent is using the device and it cant detect that their baby could pass away before they even knew that the baby had even gone into shock.
Personally, I think that there has to be an age limit to how long the tech monitoring has to go before the parents start actually parenting them. For example, when they can start talking fluently, that way they can tell you if something is wrong.
I agree but I wonder how long this device is going to be in development and how safe it is as far as water resistant or how accurate it really is.
I do not think this should be the future of parenting because the parent should do that not the bracelet. The bracelet could tell the parent the wrong information.
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