"Mom-Kid Cares" wireless toddler leash
posted Oct 7th 2005 4:05PM
While highly effective, the rope leashes that some parents use to control their toddlers are kind of humiliating to
everyone involved. Once again, though, technology comes to the rescue, as now mom and dad have the much less
embarassing option of ordering the oddly-titled "Mom-Kid Cares" (if you haven't guessed, this is a foreign product).
This device is basically a portable version of the ankle bracelets used to keep parolees tethered to their halfway
houses, except here mom carries the receiver and junior (whom the website lovingly refers to as "the object") carries
the transmitter; if the two parts are separated by either 4 or 5.5-meters (parent's choice) a screeching alarm
indicates that the little one is out of pocket. So now for under $10 you can finally ditch that leash and put it to
better use: taking your costumed robotic dog out for a
walk.
[Via TRFJ]
Sweet. I was reading the entry to get to the part about HOW it stopped them getting further away. I think I perfer an electric-shock method better!
This isn't the first one of these on the market, although it is certainly the cheapest.
They all have the same fatal flaw: if I'm in a crowd and my daughter wanders off, I want the beeper to be on HER so that I can find her. Having something on my belt beeping to tell me that I cannot see her doesn't help much.
Probably work better on 13 year olds rather than 2 year olds. I've never used one of those leash things but man sometimes I would have thought about it. Having a 2 month old in hand and having to snatch a two year old by the scruff is not an easy thing to do. Nor does it do much for your temper.
This is a great I could have used one of these during my youth. Walking(more like being dragged) Disney World with a leash on really damages ones psyche.
Yeah, now you just have to deal with your 3yr old wetting his/her paints in the grocery store because he/she saw something they had to have and raced down the isle in front of you to get it.
I agree with poster 2.
All kids should have gps emitters implanted in their skin (with 1billion bit encryption) so I know where my kid is at all times. Try and snatch my kid now will you! That wasy don't even need to innvolve the cops......
Number 2, you could always give the kid the beeping part and keep the non beeping part for yourself.. I guess you still need to be in earshot so may not work if it's not super loud.
Can you imagine walking somewhere with a lot of beeping kids like Disneyworld? ugh.
A US company has been making one of these for quite sometime. I remembered seeing one on the end of an isle at Wal-Mart about 3 years ago right after one of my friends mentioned the idea to me.
http://www.familyonboard.com/angelalert.html
For people with one kid, a leash shouldn't really be needed. 1 parent should be able to keep track of 1 child. I have 3 kids, 2 of them 15 months apart. If i am at work, and the wife goes to get groceries, she needs a way to keep *all* of them in check. The older toddler gets a leash, the younger gets the cart. When we both go, we do not use the leash, we simply hold the toddlers hands.
Oh yeah, a screeching alarm causing everyone in the aisle to whip their head around in your direction is a LOT less humiliating...
less humiliating than constantly having a dog leash attached to you at ALL times. and who doesn't "beep" these days what with cellphones and such?
beats the baby leashes I used for my kids over 2 decades ago...two kids in a mall..shopping bags..1 kid refused to move at all and the other one trying to escape and got entangled in his leash..urghhhh...what a nightmare