12 December 2007 - 20:55Decoy Buttons

I’m all about getting kids started out early on computers, and if you’re reading this, you probably are too.. but babies? Argh! Show them PBSkids.com once, and it’s all over!! You’ll never get an alone moment with your computer again.

In all of their sweetness, they just want to do what we’re doing. To participate in an activity with us by pressing keys and watching the screen change. But instead, little hands hit the delete key and try to power down the system every 10 seconds. How do you share the computer experience with baby without pulling out your hair?

Idea: Decoy Buttons

Place a few raised-surface stickers off to the side of the mouse pad. Make sure baby sees you play with them a little bit each time she comes over, and tell her they are her buttons. Hopefully this trick will give you that extra 30seconds that can mean so much… and baby will be happy too!