Useful gadgets to help mom

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

Hundreds of books have been written about raising children, thousands of articles have been published, but each time, waking up at night from children's crying, parents find themselves face to face with a feeling of helplessness and fear, because no book can replace their own experience with their baby. Am I doing everything right? Am I a good mom? Such questions haunt almost everyone who is fortunate enough to become a parent throughout their life from the day of the birth of their child. Taking care of children is a real job, and without any breaks, weekends or holidays. Trials, mistakes and Yandex are your best friends for the coming years, but if you are ready to put in all your efforts to help your baby grow healthy and develop harmoniously, then you are on the right track. However, in order to always find the strength to take care of the family and caring for the child, you must definitely leave time for yourself - relieve stress and restore energy reserves.

Strange as it may seem, modern technologies can make life much easier for parents of young children. Every day there are more and more incredible devices and opportunities that imperceptibly penetrate into all areas of our life, including everyday life. Many users of modern gadgets admit that in a few years their home will become a single self-governing system, consisting of all kinds of "smart" devices. We've found 8 devices that will free your hands and help you save time. Add to your list of must-haves!

Robot vacuum cleaner

Since we are talking about robots, let's start with them. Cleanliness in a house where a small child lives is a sore point for all its other inhabitants. The robot vacuum cleaner will be an excellent assistant that will automatically keep the house clean, while all you need to do is do a full-fledged wet cleaning from time to time. It costs like a regular vacuum cleaner, but it significantly reduces the hassle. For example, you go to the store - and the vacuum cleaner works while you are not at home. Now almost all well-known brands have robotic vacuum cleaners, including Philips, Samsung, Karcher, Xiaomi, iRobot, Redmond and the young Russian brand of smart electronics ELARI.

Smart speaker with Alice

Alice is a Russian-speaking voice assistant from Yandex, and has been gaining more and more popularity lately. There are already "smart" watches with Alice, smartphones with Alice, and even on-board computers with Alice. In our case, it is worth paying attention to the "smart" speakers that will tell the child a fairy tale, sing a lullaby or play words. It can be a wired Yandex. Station or a compact wireless speaker ELARI SmartBeat with a very pleasant combination of price and functionality.

Alice “gets along well” with children: she can read aloud, help the child fall asleep, answer even the strangest children's questions like “why is there no cat food with the taste of mice?”. You no longer have to suffer by poking wires from one outlet to another if you decide to move a sleeping child to another room: you can take the speaker in your free hand, and it will continue to read the fairy tale and will not turn off. Alice is a great helper in the kitchen: baby food tips, recipes, timer - and all this on a voice request, without greasy marks on the touch screen. She can even shop online for you.

By the way, in addition to the speaker, you can purchase a special socket, light bulb or other gadgets from the ELARI series for a "smart" home and control the operation of various devices when the child is in another room. For example, turn the lights on or off, adjust the temperature or set up video surveillance - again, with the help of Alice.

Reciprocating Electric Toothbrush

The reluctance of children to brush their teeth is the scourge of most parents. The procedure is monotonous and therefore completely boring for a small child, who is not yet particularly worried about the consequences of caries and similar adult concerns. If all parents had pedagogical abilities and impeccable knowledge in the field of child psychology, then, perhaps, the issue of motivating children to brush their teeth would be resolved by itself. But for now, brushing your teeth is most often a problem for a child, stress for parents and a potentially conflict situation.

This is where electric toothbrushes come to the rescue, which use the popular gamification method today. For example, Oral-B Stages Power baby brushes with characters from Star Wars, Frozen, Cars, and The Incredibles. They can be used by children from the age of three. The point is that the brush works "in tandem" with the free educational application Magic Timer, which brightens up the tedious procedure with stickers, glasses, medals and albums of achievements in the personal profile of the baby. Checked: the children themselves will start running after you so that you let them brush their teeth with this application. Well, and, of course, the very quality of cleaning with such a brush improves significantly, and, thanks to a special round nozzle and soft bristles, it is completely safe to use it.

Safety bracelets and beacons

When a child is still too young to fully use a smart watch with a tracker, SOS-button and other useful functions (by the way, ELARI even has a children's watch with Alice), but already independent enough to sneak out of the playground unnoticed, it is only necessary for the mother distract yourself for a second, you can use simple bracelets and pendants with built-in beacons, or take the beacon itself separately and attach it to your child's clothes. The device connects to a smartphone via an application, where the permissible distance that the child can move away is set. If this distance is exceeded, a signal will be sent to the smartphone. You can choose a bracelet made of reflective material. By the way, beacons can be conveniently used with things that are often lost - for example, in the form of a key fob.

"Play" utensils

They fall a little off the list of tech gadgets, but add more fun to the daily routine. Bright children's tableware with movable elements and unusual funny details turns children's imagination into play. Invite your toddler to tidy up the magic garden on a multi-colored plate with different sectors using forks and spoons, stylized as gardening tools - and even steamed broccoli will sparkle with new colors.

"Magic" mirror or baby monitor for a car

If you often move with your child in a car, then it will be superfluous to install a special video surveillance system or just an additional mirror to control what is happening in the back seat without being distracted from driving. You can find a variant with a fun design and additional features, such as Munchkin.

Humidifier and air purifier

This is not a fad, but a necessity if you live in an area where there is little greenery and if the air in your home is too dry. The reasons can be different: from the climate characteristics to the settings of the central heating and air conditioning system. Dry air reduces the protective functions of the mucous membranes, making the body more vulnerable to infections and increasing the likelihood of allergic reactions. There are many brands of humidifiers, the choice is huge with a wide range of prices.

Sunlamp

It is indispensable in the cold season, when, due to the short daylight hours and low temperatures, the body does not receive enough vitamin D and the production of serotonin is disrupted. What does this lead to? Vitamin D is associated with the absorption of calcium, which in turn serves as the basis for bone and dental tissue. It also affects the hormonal system, the nervous system, the functioning of the lungs and bone marrow, regulating the synthesis of immune cells. In winter, the emotional state can deteriorate, and the exposure to the negative effects of stress can increase. The presence of a lamp of sunlight at home will help to survive the "dark" time on a positive wave, without breaking into seasonal depression against the background of chronic fatigue and lack of sleep. It is better to install the lamp in an area where the whole family usually gathers, or somewhere where you can calmly rest in silence. There are compact tabletop models such as Philips VitaLight, there are large professional options, for example, NorthStar and Carex Health.