I recently became the owner of a Slim & Secure Handheld color video monitor from Summer Infant. For those unschooled in contemporary Big Brother baby technology, I'll explain that video monitors are the modern, neurotic parent's answer to the audio baby monitors of yore. Is junior definitely lying on his back and not his stomach? You can put your mind at ease without leaving the comfort of your recliner.
Did your little sweet pea grace the mattress with a puddle of mysterious origin? You can see it, tell yourself it's nothing more than drool and later plead ignorance when your spouse asks why the nursery smells like a nursing home.But back to this particular baby video monitor: The box advertises the hand-held component as having "sleek styling for today's tech savvy parents." What this means, in short, is that it's about the size of a smartphone and it looks like your 2005 iPod, sans the ear buds and the Pussycat Dolls tracks.
Don't cha wish your baby monitor was hot like mine?Still, the monitor does, to Summer Infant's credit, look pretty sleek, which is perfectly fine in the right hands.In my hands, it was a different story. On a recent hurried morning, I slipped my electronic devices into my purse and ran out out the door as usual. It was only about 10 miles into my commute that I realized I had an extra gadget on hand — that new video monitor. It meant my babysitter would be flying blind for afternoon nap time while I was left wondering whether I was the only idiot who had done this.
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