Hey Bear, unbelievable!

[RSKY]

We have been keeping our 5-1/2 month old granddaughter all week. She has a double ear infection AND developed RSV. This has been the happiest baby I have ever seen. Smiling, laughing, and cackling out loud when I would play with her. This week not so much until today. She has really felt bad and has spent most of the time sleeping in my wife's arms or occasionally in mine. When she has been awake she has been very fussy and ill. It was hard to keep her from crying.

Until our daughter told us about 'heybear'.

We turn the TV to Youtube and start a heybear video and she immediately quiets and watches. The videos consist of a black screen with brightly colored fruits and vegetables dancing and spinning around. That is all it is. And there is pleasant music WITH A NICE BEAT playing.

The five month old is mesmerized, sitting there and staring at the screen for ten to twenty minutes at a time.

Wife and I can only stand it for about thirty minutes and then the channel has to be changed for us to keep our sanity. BUT if you have a fussy infant I would suggest trying these videos. it can quiet them long enough for you to put a bottle in the warmer or go to the bathroom.

An exhausted 69-year old granddaddy, RSKY.

 

[Yander]

For my son, Barney the dinosaur mesmerized him. For his son, Team umizoomi.

 

[tractortroof]

Cocomelon and Peppa Pig here, we have 11 kids from 0-20 years old.

 

[Torvy]

For my son, Barney the dinosaur mesmerized him. For his son, Team umizoomi.

That is exactly why we banned Barney when we had our first kid. No desire to have video mesmerize the kids.

Did spend more than a few hours of my life driving around trying to get him to sleep. He turned out ok.

 

[ArlyA]

We have been keeping our 5-1/2 month old granddaughter all week. She has a double ear infection AND developed RSV. This has been the happiest baby I have ever seen. Smiling, laughing, and cackling out loud when I would play with her. This week not so much until today. She has really felt bad and has spent most of the time sleeping in my wife's arms or occasionally in mine. When she has been awake she has been very fussy and ill. It was hard to keep her from crying.

Until our daughter told us about 'heybear'.

We turn the TV to Youtube and start a heybear video and she immediately quiets and watches. The videos consist of a black screen with brightly colored fruits and vegetables dancing and spinning around. That is all it is. And there is pleasant music WITH A NICE BEAT playing.

The five month old is mesmerized, sitting there and staring at the screen for ten to twenty minutes at a time.

Wife and I can only stand it for about thirty minutes and then the channel has to be changed for us to keep our sanity. BUT if you have a fussy infant I would suggest trying these videos. it can quiet them long enough for you to put a bottle in the warmer or go to the bathroom.

An exhausted 69-year old granddaddy, RSKY.

ya I love them kids as well. I was vaccinated for rsv this past week.

 

[ultrarunner]

For my niece it was the Wiggles...

I took her to the concert and she was rocking out... have not been to any concert since but it was cute how she would learn things like stop and look both ways for cars or how the Fruit Salad song had her asking for fruit salad.

Like most things in moderation there is good and not so good...

She is off attending her 4th year university... maybe I should fire up the VCR at Thanksgiving?

At the hospital I've been known to put baby shark or the wheels on the bus on the big lobby screen for our youngest patients awaiting surgery... it really helps a lot... and so far no complaints as long as I switch back to regular programing when the nurse comes to pick up our youngest patients...

 

[RjCorazza]

My daughter was a Barney fan. The opening or closing to the show was a song "I love you, you love me..." With Barney hugging people. Daughter would run to everyone in the house for her Barney hug!

 

[Yander]

That is exactly why we banned Barney when we had our first kid. No desire to have video mesmerize the kids.

Did spend more than a few hours of my life driving around trying to get him to sleep. He turned out ok.

Lighten up Francis, figure of speech.

Yeah well, I'm glad I didn't ban Barney as my kids turned out pretty good. There was a lot of Barney haters out there which I never understood. His entire show was teaching kids things and how to treat others with kindness and respect.

Maybe more people should have let their kids watch it. I personally don't like any kids show but I'm a grownup and can tune it out.

 

[RSKY]

Heybear isn't really a show. There is no dialog. All it has is brightly colored objects bouncing around on a black background. I suspect any child that can speak even a few words would be bored by it. But for this little miserable sick baby it was entertainment for a few minutes.

RSKY

 

[tacticalturnip]

That's a shame about her being so sick, but it's cute that she is so entertained by something we'd find... at best, boring.

 

[CobyRupert]

Screens are bad….says I…. who typed this declaration on a screen. Go figure.

Yet, I’m fully convinced parents who warehouse there kids in front of a screen so the kid will be passive (giving time for parents to stare at their own screens too), is a terrible thing for humanity.

I wouldn’t be surprised if it wasn’t linked to the epidemic levels of autism we seen. I don’t think it’s just better identified through testing.

 

[ultrarunner]

I do get more done when away from TV, Internet and Phone... don't have any of these at the house in Washington when I stay to turn over... it actually is a positive and what I do need I can access when I go into town...

Funny when the 3 year old can show grandma how to turn on a favorite program or the house security system...

They really are little sponges when it comes to learning at that age...

 

[Dftodd]

I do get more done when away from TV, Internet and Phone... don't have any of these at the house in Washington when I stay to turn over... it actually is a positive and what I do need I can access when I go into town...

Funny when the 3 year old can show grandma how to turn on a favorite program or the house security system...

They really are little sponges when it comes to learning at that age...

Gotta watch what you say and what you do with a little one running around

I started growling at idiots on the road trying to tamp down my road rage with him in the truck.

We're going through Sam's club and someone was in our way.

He started growling

Grandma dropped something one day at the house and said sh$t without thinking.

Guess who had to tell our daughter that he learned a new word today and was very proud of himself

 

[ultrarunner]

True... I was one repeating words from the old trucker down the road... he had a language all his own and mixed in lots of words I just repeated...

Grandma said when I'm a truck driver and that old I can say them too... her way of dealing with the issue...

 

[RSKY]

That's a shame about her being so sick, but it's cute that she is so entertained by something we'd find... at best, boring.

Thank you for your concern. She has rounded the corner so to speak. Much better, very little coughing, smiling all the time. Has started rolling over since we kept her three days ago. And I had her sitting up by herself for about a half minute Thursday.

She has been the easiest of our five grands to take care of. Only time she cries is when she is hangry (hungry and angry). I told my wife that she is liable to be a ring tailed doozy when she hits the terrible twos.

RSKY

 

[ponytug]

Thank you for your concern. She has rounded the corner so to speak. Much better, very little coughing, smiling all the time. Has started rolling over since we kept her three days ago. And I had her sitting up by herself for about a half minute Thursday.

She has been the easiest of our five grands to take care of. Only time she cries is when she is hangry (hungry and angry). I told my wife that she is liable to be a ring tailed doozy when she hits the terrible twos.

RSKY

Have you considered teaching her baby sign language? It helps a lot of kids not have terrible twos, when their brains are functioning better than their motor coordination for speech. (YMMV, but it is pretty amazing to watch how much can be communicated both ways with a non-verbal toddler.)

All the best,

Peter

 

[RSKY]

She communicates with her eyebrows.

It is hilarious.

RSKY

 

[Dftodd]

Cocomelon, trash, truck, the Mims (minions), cars, and a few other movies.

He gets at our place, he wants to go "Hiking"

Which won't be bad once we invest in a tractor and brush hog

Until then, hiking around the property is a hard no. Way too many stickers, briers, and poison ivy that he can get under, but allow granny and I to get tore up

 

[Yander]

Screens are bad….says I…. who typed this declaration on a screen. Go figure.

Yet, I’m fully convinced parents who warehouse there kids in front of a screen so the kid will be passive (giving time for parents to stare at their own screens too), is a terrible thing for humanity.

I wouldn’t be surprised if it wasn’t linked to the epidemic levels of autism we seen. I don’t think it’s just better identified through testing.

Uuuuuh Yup! I have a good friend who raised his kids on the Nintendo hand held thing, don't know what it is called back in the early 2000s. One of his sons is now seriously mentally impaired to the point he cannot get/hold a job and lives with dad/mom. The "Brain Balance" facility he took him to said that he did not develop the side of his brain that allows him to have the cognitive function to deal with every day life. He should have had more tactile, playing outside in the dirt with his hands etc. to develop that side of his mind.

I went to lunch with my friend about a year ago and his son called and texted him several times. He cannot really leave him for very long. Literally like having a 6 year old. It was sad. My friend knows he screwed up but tough to put that genie back in the bottle.

I remember going to Red White and boom in Columbus with our families and his 4 kids spent the entire time on their Nintendo hand held devices. My sons felt completely ignored. I still feel bad for him and his son.