A Dinosaur Alexa

It was a shock to my eyes and face that I could not hide, why someone in my family thought my small little child who's brain is still developing thought buying my small child who is only three a Alexa Dinosaur for his room.

"ADULT SUPERVISION THEY SAY"

In my inner thought was like and still dose this make it okay!

I will never understand the lack of acknowledgement when I said no iPad, no screen presents also meant nothing like this still very bad for my little ones brain to have this.

Everyone in the room once unwrapped seemed shock at my expression!

Why when I made this crystal clear from the moment I had my son I do not know!

Yes while I have an Alexa in my room I am an adult and I use for spelling and sometimes music, however I do not rely on this NO... but the bigger picture remains I am an adult and my brain has developed much more than a 3 year old.

When explaining my child's brain is like a sponge soaking everything in which let's be honest at this age they are! No one seemed to be listening, just looked at me with "how ungrateful" and blank uneducated faces.

I had to rectified this situation and quickly, act through what I did really truly bealive and thought in my core with pleasant fake as anything because they were already told.

"thank you how amazing, wow I did not know that."

In the back of my mind thinking it was all lies, I was like I can not allow my son to use this, as a parent doing this solo I do not agree with this at all.

Image having this little tool in my sons room, where he is meant to play and explore with his toys of independent play safely not running up and down the stairs and back and fourth from my room to his worrying about this creepy little tool telling him things worsening his brain development process and it creeping in his mind.

I think the pointe stands if I wanted to buy him one I would have! but it remains to reason there is a reason I did not for a very good reason with very good understanding of these tools and the dangers that could happen with devices like this even supervise, but let's be honest here!

It takes just two minutes you are running down getting the washing out who knows what could happen In those two minutes and please don't get me started on the settings as if you can trust the settings NO!

Lastly I will leave with this!

When a parent saids no and the answer is "No" not maybe not we will do it anyway and see for iPads and electric screen things surely should mean in someone head means "No" to any type of AI tools including a children's Alexa which for my parenting style I do not agree with just my views Period.

Let my child play comfortable in his room using his imagination, yeah making a mess thats part of their development and learning, to be a child like I did, let him enjoy being a child lastly he is only 3 cannot emphasise this enough.

3 people yes 3!

I will add nothing makes me feel at all comfortable with my son even with my supervision running up and down the stairs or being next doors open. Nothing makes me feel comfortable with a little robot tool in my son room Image what he could learn or pick up.

Thankfully when my child saw this little creepy gadget, he did not care much and has not been asking for it out, because of my way of parenting may not be perfect, but my style he has reading by me alone every single night.

When I was told this gadget reads books, well I was offended to the essence of my core. I think a lot of parents out there especially parents who love reading and writing would really feel this.

I was like inside voice "how dare you mock my reading style" did I say this out loud of course not all hell would of broke loose and my brother was not there at the time to defend me we have the same values you see so I was on my own here with these faces glaring at me.

IMAGE THIS CREEPY DEVICE DOING BETTER READING THAN A PARENT.

After my very own research this creepy device is bad for sleep, behaviour flair ups , anxiety, lacking the melatonin for this child's sleep yes, socialising and well the list goes on and all of my hard word by even allowing this device on for one minute would have destroyed everything.

So already having all this knowledge when being given this I was having to Think to myself "play it cool, say what they want to hear, get rid of the creepy item much later" thanks to my acting degree I think it worked like a charm!

What will I be doing with this creepy dinosaur Alexa, well it's simple really selling to someone else who's child is much older than my child and has different parenting style with putting the money into my dear son savings account.

Author note: Thank you all for reading it has been a while, I hope you do not mind this piece being up here. This is where this felt like home for me after all this is called Vocal.