Baby Think-It-Over...?

Blue Ditto

Blue Ditto

The Baby Think-It-Over, a doll programmed to act just like a real baby. I just got mine today, although it hasn't activated yet. However, I'm kind of scared--I'm too afraid to even touch the thing for fear of not supporting its neck properly...

So, have any of you guys done this project? If so, what was it like and do you have any advice for people who are going to take it/are taking it?
 
I think it's a travesty and a joke that schools can make kids do this and then force negative consequences on them if they "fail."
 
I've never done the baby thing, but our health teacher in eighth grade gave us this cigarette package thing that was basically the same thing - to teach you the "consequences" of your actions (in this case it was smoking rather than having had a baby as a teenager). It would go off (and by "go off" I mean making really loud wet coughing noises) every three hours or so to alert us to the fact that we needed a smoke. We'd then have to touch our magnetic ID to a contact point to start "smoking", where it would then ask us questions about how deadly smoking/how much it kills is and such for the five minutes that it took us to "smoke" the "cigarette". If we skipped more than two smokes or something over the period of a week, we basically failed the project. In all honesty it sucked balls and was pretty much a waste of my time since I decided to never smoke long before eighth grade.

edit: I would just recommend doing the project in its entirety and not being too afraid of messing up on it. Babies really are pretty durable; they can withstand a lot of crap. Just don't do anything obviously harmful.
 
That smoking thing really sucks. School work should never affect your life that much.

I never had to do this project in school however.
 
I did it and did the best out of the entire Health department at my High School. Most of the people failed because they beat it. The lady who checked mine said she wished everyone did as good as me. I don't know wheather to be proud that i might be a good parent, or ashamed that I've got more motherly love than the entire school.
It didn't get in my way at all. I don't ever go anywhere so i didn't have to worry about feeling stupid carrying it out in public. The last day I had the thing it kept making some weird sounds, as if it were happy.

The only advise I can give you is to put it in a rocking chair next to your bed at night when you are sleeping. This way you can just leave the bottle on it without having to hold it. You also don't need to get up to burp it. Just rock the chair (Gently) with your arm and it will be enough to simulate that you are moving it.
 
When I was in school and did this, they basically just had us carry around a sack of flour the whole day, at least while we were at school. I made cookies out of my baby.
 
I've never done any of the things back in school...fortunate though, likely I would have used the flour sack to bake something, throw the doll in the closet (or if it talked, cut off its head), and the like...granted, if I ever had kids, I would never do any of the above to them, lol.
 
That smoking thing is genius, though it fails to convey the absolute desperate gnawing need you get for another cigarette.. better to make the kids wear a patch for a week then lock them away from all nicotine, they wouldn't be touching tabs after that (..though having said that, you may just end up with a load of smoking children)

I think the baby thing is a really interesting idea. Raising kids is hard work, and it's good to remind people of that, and demonstrate what it's like. Having said that, I agree to an extent with DM; it seems a bit wrong, somehow. If it cuts teenage pregnancies I guess it's a good thing, but it seems to me to have an authoritarian 'scare the kids off sex' smack to it. Better to provide access to contraception and abortion if need be, I think.
 
Syberia said:
When I was in school and did this, they basically just had us carry around a sack of flour the whole day, at least while we were at school. I made cookies out of my baby.
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Our basketball coach made us care for eggs one. According to him if we could handle an egg we could handle a ball. He wasn't the brightest guy to step on court; you know using the if you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball logic.
 
I just got one of those babys 2 days ago and i give it back tomorrow and it was a piece of cake..... and my teacher is really laid back so she looks at taking one of them as a "choice' just like having a real baby so we could do a really easy worksheet instead but i chose the baby cuz i thought it would be fun. it was fun. so just dont be stupid with it and you will be fine
 
Iirc, you can put the diaper over its head and it will feed itself through the night.

I didn't take the class, but my cousin did. That's what she said (literally).
 
Thanks a lot for the responses, guys! ^^

I finished the project yesterday, and I can say without a doubt it was extremely easy, even if I did get a little neurotic trying to make sure I didn't fail it.

Which is what sucked about the project--the incentive for taking good care of the "baby" wasn't really the doll's well-being, but the grade you get on it. And it's worrisome not only because some people won't take it seriously, but some other people might mistake it for, "hey! I did really well on this! I think I'm ready to have a REAL one!"

Or something of the sort. Eh.

I made cookies out of my baby.
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8D

Iirc, you can put the diaper over its head and it will feed itself through the night.
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Really? xD

That might have worked, except our teachers programmed the baby so we have to rock it while we feed it, just to make sure we don't do that.

Oh, and speaking of ROCKING...god, it was doing sit-ups with a seven-pound weight on your chest for twenty minutes to an hour. The motion sensors didn't SENSE. For those who like working out though... :3

I've never done the baby thing, but our health teacher in eighth grade gave us this cigarette package thing that was basically the same thing - to teach you the "consequences" of your actions (in this case it was smoking rather than having had a baby as a teenager).
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That's HILARIOUS. 8D I think my friends would have appreciated that more than the baby, even if it is a real pain in the ass.
 
In grade school we had to do this too except it involved lots of tissue paper and making parachutes out of Walmart bags to prevent the thing from splattering everywhere when it hit the ground...
 
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