It happened yesterday at 4:07 pm. Baby Jake was delivered to my 15 year old daughter Katie.
Do I have your attention yet?
Are you wondering what you have missed? Baby Jake is a 'Baby Think It Over' computerized doll that is used in Katie's school to try and show kids what it is like to have a baby. The dolls are incredibly sophisticated. The student is assigned the baby and has to care for it from the end of school one day until the start of school the next day, and they have to do this several times throughout the semester. The babies cry, burp, coo, scream, etc. It is up to the student to figure out what the baby needs and fill that need. The student wears a bracelet (un-removeable) with a sensor in it that has to be swiped across the baby's chest when it begins to cry. This insures that the baby cannot be passed off to someone else to care for. Everything the baby experiences is recorded and the info is then downloaded by the teacher. Response time, how long the baby cried, if it's head was ever moved in an un-safe manner, everything.
Katie took Jake to a school volleyball game yesterday evening, but she got worried becasue it was so noisy in there she couldn't hear if he cried. So her group of friends decided to go get a bite to eat instead. As soon as they arrived at the restaurant, Jake began to wail. He cried off and on all thru dinner and had to be fed, burped and rocked the whole time she tried to eat. (Boy does that sound familiar!)
She went to bed at 10:30pm, but Jake woke her up at midnight. He finally went back to sleep around 2pm, but was up again at 3pm. This time he was back asleep by 4:15 and she was able to sleep until about 7am. She was trying to get ready for school but he needed to be fed and burped, so she was struggling to take care of him and still get ready in time.
Her first comment this morning: "I am not having kids for a very long time!"
Good job, Jake. Good job!
10 comments:
Good job, Jake!!!
Funny thing, Wendy -- the top of my head blow off yesterday, too. . .
That's awesome. :0)
That is so funny. They should make that mandatory for every kid to do in order to get their driver's license!
I love. They should have those at every school and it should be a mandatory class.
Great program! Let's hope she remembers Jake for a LONG time...
man we only had eggs and flour sacks. Of course our school also had a program for young teen mothers. Can ya guess where we were lacking?
Way to go baby Jake!!!
That is such a neat idea! I love it. I wish they would do it here.
I LOVE Baby Think It Over!!!!! So fantastic.
hi my name is mimi my class stared the baby think it over it is so much fun but i read to have kids some day yesterday morening when i first got here i had to ask some to baby sit alex and she cryed during his class when i got back from my class when i whent to have lunch in the cafater she cryed during lunch peroio i had to wait a hole our befor i could eat my lunch but i am haveing a wounderfull experence with my baby at night time i was sleep at 10:00 when it was 10:30 she begain to cry but i couldnt her here so my mom came to my room and told me she was crying then when it was 12:58 she cryed then at 5:30 she cyred agian at qurter of 8:00 she stared to cry and then she cryed at 11:00 and then she was happy all day
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