Child Development Class: "Baby, Think It Over."

It was great! my daughter is 17 and just finished this class.she had it for 6 days.The first day it was so cute.by day 6, she couldn’t stand it,she was tired and cranky.they only have 1 min to find out whats wrong with the baby,and they cranked up the amount of crying on friday night,all it screamed with gass. She now thinks only crazy people have babies.LOL I had 3.

LOL… my girls think I’m crazy too. I sometimes wonder if it didn’t happen because of having kids? But I don’t think it’s a bad thing

My daughter had this in 8th grade. It is incorporated in a mandatory Life Skills class for all students. She only had the baby for 24 hours, but she ended up with the “baby from hell” who cried constantly, and frequently let loose with the abuse cry, even if no one was touching it. At the end of the session, my daughter said that not only would she not have a child while in her teens, she wasn’t sure she ever wanted one.

My 17 yr old daughter brought home the ‘baby’ for 4 days. Her comment that made me laugh the most was “she never sleeps when you need her to sleep,how am I supposed to get ready”! She couldn’t wait to bring her back to school.

My school has a “parenting” class as an elective, once you choose to be in the class, you must bring home the ‘baby’ for one weekend. Having a family full of babies and always being aronud them, I would have to say that the baby think it over is much different than a real ‘baby’. The bond between mother and child isnt available here because the ‘baby’ is only programmed for certain things, the ‘baby’ isnt able to have life-like movement. The part of this program I find the most amusing is if at any time while you are taking care of your ‘baby’ something goes wrong and it breaks, the school holds you accountable for $400 to replace it. I can not even count how many times I just cried with the ‘baby’. The way you are graded on this project is the percentage the device prints out, is the grade you get. If they wanted to prove to a 16 year old girl that she cant take care of a baby that screeches and causes such problems, I think I got that and much more.

I have my baby right now. In my high school, you take a child development class as an elective, and the baby is also optional, but if you don’t take it you will have to write a 2 page report, and give a 5 minute presentation to make up for it. I have to admit- I love it! Sure, the 3am wakeup sessions aren’t great, but i really am enjoying being a mommy. Good thing I know enough to know that a real baby is much more difficult! I am also lucky enough to get a fairly quiet baby. I am bonded to my baby, and don’t want to give her back Friday morning! If you or your teen gets this- I encourage you to let them go out in public by themselves. People, seeing no adult around, will assume they are a teen mom until they get up close, and people really do look at you differently. I went bowling with a school club, with over 35 kids and two teachers, so people who where there saw a group of 20 kids walking in, one of them with a car seat and I had the blanket over the baby because it was sprinkling outside. People squint their eyes at you, and try to pretend they’re not looking, ect.
One guy was leaving, and held the door open for me, but giving me that strange look, until he looked in the car seat, and says “oh! I thought it was real!” Imedeatly the way he looked at me changed completely. I told him it is a baby think it over, and was amazed at how differently he looked at me.

I am getting my baby this week but only for a day. My mom feels that only having the baby for one day is not enough to teach you about being a mother. I dont like that all you have to do is put a key in it’s back, you should have to feed it and change it like a normal baby. We can take the baby over the weekend but its only for extra credit for the child development class.

i am a teen mom

im 16 about to be 17 and i had a baby think it over 2 time and got a 100% on one and a 96% on the other but i loved it and now im thinking of buying one i had mine from friday to monday and i loved it!!! cant wait till i have a real one!

Im getting the baby on friday .. its the newer version im naming him Kelton

I have always wanted a baby. And I’m only 13. I love children and hope that the baby will be what I’ve always wanted. I’m gonna have it for 3 days. I was hoping to get it for a week. But I guess you get what you get. lol But I have a boyfriend who is kinda mad at me for getting the baby (he doesn’t really like kids much). He said why get it when you know your not gonna have kids when your a teen. And what made me really mad way he said he didn’t want anything to do with it. whatever lol

I had my baby this weekend.i named him CAden. when i first went to pick it up in the heath room i was soooo exited!!!!but when it woke me upin the middle of the night i was ready to bring it back to myteacher.!!!=[ my baby is fussy but not crying all the time just when i dont want it to happen!!!lol=] but teenagers im in 8th grade and definitly not ready to have sex and have a bab y so if your getting a “baby, think it over” baby DO NOT LOOK FORWARD TO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it takes a huge chunk of your time,a lot of effort and all your atention!!!thanks for reading and Remember think before you do!!

Hey, I am getting my baby in about a month from now, and I am so excited! You either had to choose to take the baby during the week, or during the weekend for extra credit. I decieded to take the baby for the weekend, and I am going out with him/her. the only thing i am worried about is if anyone that decieds to be funny, and break it, I am the one who is going to pay the $350.

any tips ?

These babies lack the major component of growing, loving, laughing ect. It almost seems more like a scare tactic because it shows only the “dark side of parenting”.

i am getting the baby in two weeks i am so verous because i hace to take home sixtuplets because my grandpa is a sixtuplet and so is my grandma so my parents are making me take home 6 because i am the generation. i am so mad at them. i will let you know how my weekend is afterwards

Im 16yrs old almost 17 on November. I wish i would of taken child development class. I always used to tell my mom how excited i was to take that class. I never did take i was slacking and now im going to be a teenage mom im barely 3 months pregnant and feeling sick every mornign its real bad and i get real frustrated knowing that every morning I have to wake up to puke. It sounds real grose but thats what happends when you get pregnant. I just hope that I can be a good mother to my daughter/son. Think before you get pregnant it changes your whole life.

I Have My Baby Right Now. A Baby Boy Named Aiden. I’m Not Sure What’s Worng With Him Though. Last Night He Woke Up Crying, & I Cared For Him, & Then I Placed Him Back In His Baby Carrier To Sleep. He Hasn’t Woke Up This Morning, & The Baby Has A Red Light Lit Up On It’s Back. I’m Not Sure If It’s Batteries Are Dead Or What. When I Find Out, I’ll Post Another Comment About It.

i hav one of the fake babys at the moment! its driving me crazy! its 2.45 am ive been awak since 2am and only just got the baby to sleep!!

I think this program is great…i never want kids!!!!!

all three of my kids had the baby through the years. each handled it differently. my oldest was such a sound sleeper, i had to wake him up. my middle son went to a concert and left the baby with his gf. my youngest, oh poor child. after two days he brought the baby to me crying, begging me to help. i like this program, but unfortunetly it was cut two years ago. my boys all proclaim ”no sex”before marrage. thats good i’m not ready to be a real nanna.

I had that baby twice. The first time in my freshmen year, it was alright. In my senior year, MAN if that baby didnt keep me up.

ive done baby think it over 4 times and got 90 and above its great im 15 and dont want a baby ever unless its baby think it over there way better at least theres no actual poo and sick .

i actually have it sitting next 2 me rite now..even though its the older version from 1995 it still works…only u stick a key in its back for anytime it cries..instead of feeding it or changing a diaper

i have one named Kaya i am takeing the class next year and all have bouth on. i am used to haveing Kaya on so one more well just make it a little more fun.

I actually enjoyed having the Baby Think it Over Stimulator. I had mine for a week. The first night was HORRIBLE! My bracelet thing didn’t work. Not at all. The baby had a low battery so I had to switch it out, which worked. My baby was such a good baby. She cooed a lot and scared me half to death with she did. It was pretty funny. But I got a 98 total since I accidently dropped the head once. She only woke me up maybe once a night staying up for a good hour. I would LOVE to do the class again. I really enjoyed it (So did my kids at work!)

i am glad you enjoyed haveing a baby think it over i love mine (kaya) to death i love takeing her to the park on weekends if the wether is good.

wow so i just took the baby think it over home for 4 days i hated it and not cause it was hard. I am 15 years old. I have been babysitting for along time and the baby think it over is nothing like a real baby. i mean come on if u drop its head it screams bloody murder real babies dont i no u have to be careful with a real babies head but not that careful. also it dont move it needs to be able to move its hands and feet and when u burp a real baby it spits up and sometimes throws up on u and teaches can put it on quiet time u cant do that on a real babie so if the baby think it over is suppose to be affective its not at all u cant bond with it like u can a real baby and there is even a way to turn it off in the back wow and u cant let it cry for more then two min or it is a naglect well reality check people sometimes u just have to let real babies cry im not the only teen who feels this way i mean in some ways it makes parenting seeme easy it cant spit up puke or realy poop of pee its diper it normaly takes more then a min to change a babies diper unlike on the babie think it over it only takes a few sec. and teachers set it to how much they think it should cry. U want teens to relize how hard it is to take care of a real baby u make it more real IT DONT HELP TEENS RELIZE HOW HARD IT IS TO BE A PARENT o n if it wont stop crying u call ur teacher n she can shut it off so what would u do if a real baby wont stop crying u cant shut it off now can you parents need to sit down and talk more to there kids about parenting and how hard it is. real care babies r basicly a joke in most ways in some ways yeah they r good but people realy take a real babie for a few days keep a diary of what it dose then take the real care babie for a few days n do the same. o n the baby think it over in the middle of the night if its hungrey all u do is put the breast feeding thing on its hat and let it sit in the car seat. its not a grate program its a stupid one

i agree that you can not connect to the infint simulaters but i love mine i got her for chirstmas and i have only put her on twice but i keep having dreams that i turn her on and take her places so may be i well

well i have my baby right now. i named her skyh (sky). i had the baby think it over I in 8th grade now i have baby think it over II as a sophmore. the whole expierence is great i think. this baby cries ALOT more it drives me crazy sometimes but its not that bad. its amazing how people just take one look and assume the babies yours i think its pathetic really but i cant really blame them for looking cause alot of these teens girl have babies. so they can’t help but wonder huh?? i had the belly as well at my school we get to where it for two hours. its an extra 30 pounds and some fake boobs lol. that expierence was okay.. i felt as though we shouldve had to take it home longer to get the full impact. but they dont trust us that much at my school lol. well it was great sharing my perspective on the baby. gotta go now skyh is crying.

I am thirteen, and i got the baby for three dayss. and the first day i love it and then by the time i got to school and hhad to deal with it at school. It made me maddd. You should really have your kids do it. I know it changed my thoughts about having babies.

hey everyone! im back again! i just wanted to let everyone and anyone whose doing this project NO it’s not going to be easy. im 17 now and i now own 2 dolls a ready or not tot named kegan, and an electronic neonate named kaelynn. I love them both very much and treat them as my own because their the closest thing i can get to a real one! I took the project two times when i was in high school and i have to say the boy doll is DEFF much easier than the girl!!! GOOD luck to anyone who has it!!!

today i get my baby simulator and we dont have the key we have a thing we scan in the front of it belly or on its chest. the diper changes to yellow if it is wet or dirty. and you get to really feed the baby and burp it and it coos when your session ends i cant wait till i get it im soooooo excited but i think it will be hard. by the way his name is keith. he is soo cute!!!

I have got mine now for 10 days and it is already annoying me. I still want one when I am an adult but not while I am 15.

ugh i just had that thing too and i failed miserably. i got a 65% on the overall grade. not fun

I had this baby only for ONE night for Child Development. my sophomore year i got an overall B on it..only a couple minor accidents..like i hit its head…but it honestly was accidental.
the second time i took the class we still only keep it for a night…and the teach usually programs them around the same time to start crying but i’ve had mine for FIVE HOURS && IT HASNT CRIED YET!!! WHAT’S WRONG?!
IT CANT BE DEAD. THE BATTERIES ARE BRAND FREAKING NEW.
I DID NOTHING TO HURT IT!!

how do i turn it off ots driving me nuts only had it 24h

on the result paper it said it died within 30 minutes that i got it. I put it in my PE locker and when i came back it had pen holes as if somebody stabbed it in the head several times. They also put a one eyebrow on him and poked in his eyes. they also ripped of an arm and put it in his clothes where his mangina is at. NOT COOL. I had to pay 700 dollars for it.

I have a baby think it over along with 9 other baby dolls they are all life like and really exspencive but i like to play with them all they are like my little family i love them a whole lot i don’t tern my baby think it over on alot because my sister yells at me when i do and says its to loud but oh well maybe one day i well be able to tern her on.

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I had one of these babies when I was in high school. I enjoyed my experience with the “baby” and was amazed by the life-like cry and how it looked so much like a real baby. I hated the fact that you had to insert a key in the baby’s back since that is not what you have to do w/ a real baby. Overall, it was a good experience. I feel the program itself could sway teenagers away from having a baby so young OR it can make a teenager want a baby even more!!

I have to say this is the worst that I have had to deal with. My children have had this program. The first one cried and said she could not do this. The second one has this right now and gets NO sleep. She is not liking this at all. I have to say that I think they should not have this program. You should not have to deal with a baby that is not real or real like and does not move. This baby is the devil! This thing cries all the time, will not sleep, and screams when you are not touching it. It fusses all the time about 30 minutes every time. I would think the schools should give a choice and not have to deal with this. They need sleep to get the education they need. I would also have to say the schools should only make this for a weekend deal but then they are not going to get sleep on Sundays when they need to go back to school. These are the worst. My daughter does not want children but on the other hand the older one wants a baby. I hope not any time soon!

im getting my baby tomorrow! im so very excited!!!! haha everyone says that its a lot of work but im ready to put in the work!! i definitely do not want a baby at 15 though.

i got my baby and we have to keep it for a weekend and this baby was a brat it would get up for a hour then it would sleep for a hour, and on top of that i was sick, so i couldn’t handle it. I had to make my mom take it to the planned parenthood center because it was to much for me so if you have a baby in your teen years i feel really bad for you , im only 15 and i already don’t want to have kids after taking this baby home for less then a day

i have the baby think it over sleeping beside me. i got it yesterday in class and i have heard so many horrible stories about the baby screaming and crying all weekend but mines is actually a calm one. Its really simple you see. all you have to do is learn to recognize the different cries it makes. handle the baby like its a real one even though it doesn register in your mind as one. Dont worry if you get fustrated. all parents with REAL children get fustrated at times too. the only difference is that you can yell at this one and it wont cry because of the sound of your voice. my friends think im going to be a good mom but i doubt that im ready for being one and this baby made me realize it. I get mad at those girls who are dull in the head and think that having a baby is the cutest thing in the world. you know what, those are the girls who usually get pregnant first and then they start regretting it. so think it over girls before you get yourself into a predicument like that.

I got my baby for this weekend…and I could not make it.
My baby cried almost nonstop from 2AM to 7AM. My father could not stand it and the thing was raising my stress level. I felt like this was unrealistic because starting at 6 my baby wanted to be fed every ten minutes. No baby wants to be fed that much. My Dad had enough and so did I. We took a screw driver and took the batteries out. We are keeping them in a flashlight and plan on telling my techer the batteries died within the baby. Mock me all you want for cheating but I don’t give a damn. I know I wasn’t ready to have a baby anytime soon. One night gave me the message loud and clear.

I’m sooo excited about taking one home for my child development class! it sounds terrible but i like babies. im naming mine eleazar