My name is Chris, and I am married with two young boys. Our youngest boy was just over a year old, and one morning I was dropping him off at childcare. He was so upset that he wouldn't let go of me and refused to let me leave! He was crying and the whole thing was very upsetting.
I managed to leave and when I got a few blocks away, I pulled out my phone. I had a picture of him set as the background image, and it helped me feel better to look at it. I thought of how it must feel for him to be left like that with no reference to the only people that he knew. I thought how it would help if he had something that he could look at to calm him down.
Then it hit me! He would probably feel better if he had a device that could have his mother's and my pictures to look at! Even better, why settle for pictures, we have video now! It evolved over the next few hours to pretty close to what we have now! A stuffed animal that has a digital screen face that can display preset pictures or videos when buttons are squeezed in the hands or chest! Everyone that I told the idea to freaked out and was saying how this would help with their children.
Well, I actually decided to build it !!!
We are an everyday blue-collar family of four that noticed a serious problem when we had to leave our youngest child at childcare. Like millions of working-age parents, our household relies on two sources of income to makes ends meet. We seen the devastating effects of separation anxiety on our youngest son when leaving him at childcare. Indeed, we don’t know the full extent of the trauma, but he is now four years old, and just beginning to talk. In order to help our son, and the millions of children that are forced to stay with complete strangers while parents are at work, we developed a toy to help ease their pain! The toy is a teddy bear that allows parents, or other loved ones to capture pictures or video messages of comfort save them and then assign them to different buttons on the bear. The name “My Mommy My Daddy” is an acknowledgment of the bears intended use, as a surrogate for a child’s parents when they are forced to be separated. As such, we have different uniforms or outfits that will be sold separately to imitate the work apparel the parent may wear at their place of employment. We have military uniforms, police, fire, doctors, nurses, etc.! The beauty of the toy is that if a child feels sad and misses you, they simply give the bear a hug, and the sentimental message you prerecorded will display and comfort the child. We will have additional fun items to help them out, such as reciting the alphabet and numbers. Some favorite children’s songs like “Itsy-Bitsy Spider”, “Wheels on the Bus” and more! We are new to this and don’t have preexisting deals for lower prices. We will work to make the best deals that we can, but the manufacturing space is geared to keep new-comers out! Please support us and your children!
His first time seeing the bear and hearing my message!
Brief overview of the bear functioning.
Video showing the menu and various settings.
First video showing video running on bear.
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