Recently, I was at a clothing store and I saw a woman pushing her baby
in a stroller. I couldn't believe my eyes...She had a tablet computer at-
tached to the stroller. The baby looked about 6 months old, and he was
completely zoned into the cartoon that was playing on the tablet. He
should have been looking around his environment but he wasn't. The
baby had no idea what was going on around him. All he was aware of
was the cartoon sucking his attention away from a true learning experi-
ence.
Babies need to interact with people when they go out, not stare at car-
toons on their strollers. This mom doesn't realize that she's teaching
her baby that when they go out, her child will always expect some kind
of movie to be playing. I can imagine the tantrum he'll throw when the
tablet suddenly quits because it needs to be charged.
If you're a parent "entertaining" your baby with a tablet while shopping,
why don't you try attaching toys to the stroller, or simply let your baby
look around and interact with other people. Who wants a baby that's ad-
dicted to the computer before he can even talk?
