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[macabre]

"I've heard that walkers are bad, and a relative even sent me a bunch of links that support that. But my baby loves it anyways. What should I do?"

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[sayonara_snot]

Questionable Stupid - This commenter makes an excellent point.

If the cousin doesn't want his son using the walker, that's fine, but she has the right to mull over and decide whether her child should use one (sparingly) or not.

[midnight_d]

Comment twins!

[mogwar]

I'd agree with that point, that something of use should not be banned just because some idiots are able to use it in a way that is unsafe. But even having raised a kid well past toddlerhood myself, I've yet to figure out what positive use a walker is supposed to have. Even if it wasn't the cause of ridiculously high numbers of deaths, why on earth do you want to increase the very clumsy range of motion of an infant? How does this help the kid *or* the parent?

[rocza]

My father used to say they (walkers) made it harder to trip over us.

:D

[sayonara_snot]

Because it's fun for the baby, and safe enough if used supervised and sparingly.

[mogwar]

My kid also thinks that jumping out of the bed of a moving pick up truck sounds like fun, but so far, I've managed to live with forbidding that.

[sayonara_snot]

Apples and oranges. Using a walker is in no way comparable to letting your child jump out of the moving bed of a pickup truck. Your analogy does not follow.

[mogwar]

You're right. I believe fewer kids have died jumping out of pick up trucks than in walkers.

[sayonara_snot]

You can be obtuse if you like, I'm OK with that.

[everetteseven]

be serious. jumping out of a moving pick up truck will cause injury, even if it's only a scraped knee. it's a given. putting a baby in a walker doesn't guarantee the baby will be injured. in fact, your "ridiculously high numbers" still don't work out to anything but a small percentage of the number of babies who've been in walkers.

[sayonara_snot]

You're replying to my above comment, correct? If so, please try addressing the content of it in some way.

[sayonara_snot]

Maybe you should read the entirety of my comments to the post.

OT, but...

[nya47]

Haha... I did that once, while my dad was going probably 60-70 kph. Suprisingly, I was fine- my only problem was that I couldn't run fast enough to get back on the truck after I had jumped off, so I had to wait for my brother to let my dad know I wasn't in the truck anymore. My dad was NOT happy.

[sassette726]

That's an excellent point. It's the same reason irons have warnings that say "DO NOT IRON CLOTHES WHILE ON BODY."