You be the judge.
This product is sold online for $29.99, though I saw it on LivingSocial Deal for $15.
According to the manufacturer:
• Guide your little one’s steps without constantly bending over
• CPSIA-compliant product teaches tots to balance and walk naturally
• Fully adjustable straps for comfort
• Machine-washable, 100% polyester shell; ideal for infants up to 24 pounds
Is this something you’d like to own or give as a gift?
Ridonkulous. With a capital R.
Though I did have very tall babies.
This contraption has been used for years in rehab hospitals for small children with disabilities or injuries. For normal children? Kind of stupid. Shove it.
“learn to balance and walk more naturally” How about letting your kid learn to walk when they are ready. That seems kinda natural.
That’s insane.
I can see it for rehab purposes as mentioned but wow for learning to walk? No. Ridiculous. Yet another lazy product used to push kids to do something before they’re ready and do it naturally (Bumbo seat, I’m looking at you).
@Heather, B started walking at 9 months old and was a shorty — we got so many comments and questions about how old she was. Still didn’t need this;). Perhaps because we didn’t do that “walk behind them holding their hands” thing? She would take a faltering step or two towards us until the day she stood up and walked across the room.
I’ve got to agree with the crowd -totally shove it. Kids walk when they are able and confident that they can do it. It may have a place in clinical settings, but not in my house. My baby walked at 10 months; we also didn’t do the walking with while holding our hands thing.
shove it.
that hurts my back just looking at it.
I agree with the consensus here… shove it. Except for the rehab possibilities… that makes sense to me. I know all kids are different, but the amount of time I really needed to be bent over to help my son learn to walk was so minuscule that I think it would’ve taken longer to get him in and out of the contraption than it did for him to learn to walk.
I would have totally agreed with everyone here that this is a ridiculous idea…until my five-month-old son decided that instead of crawling, he wanted to stand. He couldn’t get himself up or balance, but if someone lifted him up, he would lock his knees and stand. And that’s what he wanted to do ALL OF THE TIME. We eventually started holding him up with a gauze blanket under his arms so it wasn’t so much wear and tear on our backs. If I’d seen one of these before he started walking on his own, I might have broken down and gotten it. As it was, he and his twin sister, who went the usual crawling route, walked on their own within a day of each other at 10 months.
What a joke. No thanks.