Fisher Price Chatter Telephone with Bluetooth

Re:Fisher Price Chatter Telephone with Bluetooth by brap on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @04:59AM (#29402324)

This is pretty cool, but I wonder if toddlers nowadays even understand what a cord phone is. After all, playing is often just mimicking adult behavior, and adults aren't using corded phones anymore, so to a child this might not be a fun toy. A cool toy for adults, though.

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Re:Fisher Price Chatter Telephone with Bluetooth by mxxx on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @05:53AM (#29402586)

Weirdly enough there’s one of the original versions of this toy in the toy box at our local pub and my three year old saw it and immediately knew that it was a phone. I have absolutely no idea how.

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Re:Fisher Price Chatter Telephone with Bluetooth by dspillett on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @07:45AM (#29403146)

> I have absolutely no idea how.

Nurseries have a lot of old books, and TV channels repeat a lot of old cartoons & other shows, so a kid may be exposed to old-style phones in passing quite a lot. And “in passing” is enough at that stage, when a growing brain readily hoovers up any and all available information.

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Re:Fisher Price Chatter Telephone with Bluetooth by bluGill on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @08:59AM (#29403643)

We made an effort to not expose our son to that at a young age (no screens at all, and we didn't send him to daycare) He still figured out the first landline phone he saw.

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Re:Fisher Price Chatter Telephone with Bluetooth by lotsofpulp on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @06:42AM (#29402808)

Movies/tv shows/books?

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Re:Fisher Price Chatter Telephone with Bluetooth by jedberg on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @02:42PM (#29408216)

Sesame Street still includes their old sketches with corded phones. I'll bet other kids TV does too.

I've found the answer to pretty much every "how do they know that?" is "A TV show". Although now that the older one can read and is in-person school, the answer is increasingly "Books" or "Someone at school".

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Re:Fisher Price Chatter Telephone with Bluetooth by minhazm on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @01:42PM (#29407456)

Possibly the shape. The symbol/icons for a phone are still old style corded phones, even an an iPhone.

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Re:Fisher Price Chatter Telephone with Bluetooth by aembleton on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @06:01AM (#29402631)

Maybe they have one at nursery

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Re:Fisher Price Chatter Telephone with Bluetooth by bitwize on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @12:12PM (#29406260)

Well, even the most modern smartphone uses an icon of an analog landline handset to represent "make/end a call". She may have recognized that.

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Re:Fisher Price Chatter Telephone with Bluetooth by TotempaaltJ on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @05:02AM (#29402339)

Playing is often mimicking adult behaviour, but certainly not always... They may not use the phone "correctly" but kids have a special skill of using anything as a toy.

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Re:Fisher Price Chatter Telephone with Bluetooth by ndespres on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @09:08AM (#29403712)

My 1-year old had a toy with a small plastic non-functioning telephone. After 1 demonstration where we pantomimed using a phone, he started picking up everything and holding it to his ear. Fruit, books, other toys, pretending it were a telephone and trying to speak into it. Every time he did this, we'd play along and say "Hello?" into our own nearby imaginary phone. He got a reaction from us that reinforced the game.

Eventually I gave him a real handset from an old rotary phone to play with. He might never have the experience of calling someone on it, but babies are at least able to figure out pretty quickly how to use these things in play.

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Re:Fisher Price Chatter Telephone with Bluetooth by waxdotrun on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @07:00AM (#29402903)

I think this is actually targeted at adults. The only pic with a person in it is an adult. Think "secret santa" gift.

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Re:Fisher Price Chatter Telephone with Bluetooth by jaywalk on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @08:37AM (#29403489)

> I wonder if toddlers nowadays even understand what a cord phone is.

It's the thing they see at grandma and grandpa's house.

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Re:Fisher Price Chatter Telephone with Bluetooth by gambiting on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @09:20AM (#29403800)

Uhm, at like my grandma and grandpa's house - sure. But my kid(who is 7 months now) won't see one at my mum's house, because....why would he. She's already young enough to be cellphone-only, landlines are just an ancient relic(that yes, my 80 year old grandma still uses, sure).

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Re:Fisher Price Chatter Telephone with Bluetooth by jaywalk on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @09:41AM (#29404001)

Well, my parents (who are in their late 60s and grandparents) still do have a landline. An actual, honest to goodness analog AT&T landline. I've been trying to get them to at least switch it over to their cable company, but they are stuck in their ways.

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