Reddit Reddit reviews Fisher Price Classics Retro Chatter Phone

We found 8 Reddit comments about Fisher Price Classics Retro Chatter Phone. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.

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Fisher Price Classics Retro Chatter Phone
The Chatter Telephone was the ultimate pretend play toy with its ringing rotary dialWith eyes that roll up and down, a mouth that chatters, and a dial that ringsPreschoolers love to chat on the phone-and this classic roll-along pull-toy with a friendly face
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8 Reddit comments about Fisher Price Classics Retro Chatter Phone:

u/crucible · 17 pointsr/CasualUK

>Think I had a toy one like that

I just had the pull along phone with eyes that everyone has as a kid...

u/Scooder · 8 pointsr/DerekSmart

Just got off the phone with a credible source of Derek's, FACT CONFIRMED. His name was Steve, I recorded it.

u/seamstress80 · 1 pointr/beyondthebump

Brio push cart. Useful to learn to walk. Additionally they love pushing things. Better this than have them pushing chairs around the house.

Toys with a string to pull. Like [this one] (https://www.amazon.com/Fisher-Price-Classic-Chatter-Phone/dp/B001W03MBQ)

Bobby car (Wikipedia says it's from the age of two, but it's rather from a bit over one)

A xylophone

Building blocks

u/SquiffSquiff · -1 pointsr/Parenting

I looked into this and basically there isn't any research on mobile apps. It's all based on TV viewing which I would argue is not directly comparable. There are a lot of blowhards with strong opinions. There's a decent article with sources on the BBC here. Some people have the TV on all the time 'in the background' in a way that I don't see so much with mobile apps, time sponging as they are. Bear this in mind with regard to TV studies, also that slack jawed torpor that TV viewers have compared to interacting with an app or game.

I don't have formal expertise. I have a kid aged 18 months. My kid gets taken out every day for at least an hour in the real, outside world and interact with both parents at home.
Not yet speaking but significant receptive vocabulary, e.g. knows parts of the body, partially with assistance from a Fisher Price app. I think that people miss something important when they say 'oh, that kid spends too much time on an app. We didn't have that when I was a kid, it's bad for it, you should take them out to play more'. This is a completely different world from 40 years ago and a lot of it has moved into your phone or tablet.

Saying that you or I grew up without this stuff is utterly meaningless. I didn't have the TV on when I was small because we didn't actually have a TV. I can remember my parents getting their first TV when I was about 5 years old, it was someone else's cast off and did not work properly. Even when it did, it took several minutes to warm up and had analogue tuning that was VERY sensitive and always slipped. There were only 3 channels and you had to look in the newspaper or a special magazine for the programme listing. It was a very 'active' and deliberate activity, nothing like being able to watch a video easily today. It was the same story with children's music. All of this was on vinyl (later on tape also) and if we wanted to listen to something then this meant getting the record out of it's sleeve, out of the paper sleeve, cleaning it, turning the amp on, turning the record player on and then putting the record on. After 20 minutes you had to change sides- or your parents did if you were too little to be trusted with the record player. Later, when we did have a TV that mostly worked, my mother was very strict about what programmes she approved.

I did not have many expensive toys but the other children I knew (and their slightly younger siblings' toys when I was a bit older) weren't so very different in concept from things like some of the apps on my tablet. One I remember especially was the Fisher Price activity centre as shown here Yes, obviously it is physical rather than a touchscreen but the repetition and interaction is not so much different from some toddler/baby apps available today. It used to get fixed in baby's cots. What about the Fisher Price pull along phone?. It was very popular and you can still get a version of it today although few children would recognise it as a telephone given that nobody uses a phone like this today. Just like phones are touchscreen today, so are the apps. I remember also the Toy record player (music box with changeable discs) pictured in the first link and Toy TV - a wind up music box with a scrolling background. These were the types of toys most kids 'just played' with, often just winding it up and sitting there staring at it until it wound down, then doing the same thing again. I did this myself when I visited other peoples houses. I feel that interacting with a music or video app (e.g. YouTube kids) is at least as intellectual.

As a child I read childrens' comics and later newspapers and books. Today, I haven't bought a paper newspaper or book in years. It's a different world.

TL;DR There aren't any relevant studies for todller time spent on apps, it's all based on TV viewing which I would argue is quite different from negotiating within and between apps, something that I would consider today a life-skill.