HANDS OFF PARENTING

We went to Toys R Us for the first time today...ever. It was, well, overwhelming. Have you been? The things I found most remarkable were the "bouncy" chairs/swings. Some of them pitched, rolled, bounced, and vibrated. The were also equipped to serenade your child to sleep with ten lullabies and five "nature sounds.". Not that I'm some shining example of attachment parenting, but to look at these machines you would think that one could drop $180 and avoid holding and/or singing to their child for at least the first three years of life. That's impressive.