The website that helps parents play Big Brother

[0iD]

The website that helps parents play Big Brother

Erin Sager Weinstein slept for an average of 12 hours and 33 minutes a day last month. Her parents Lauren and Jacob know this for certain because they have been tracking every nappy change, feed and nap since their daughter was six weeks old.


Thanks to the Trixie Tracker website, the couple has a graph of precisely how many minutes their 21-month-old daughter has slept on almost every day since her birth, and can compare it with random samples of other children her age.

[Zak33]

that's proper weird 0iD!

“If you change 10 nappies a day, how do you keep track of the last time you did it? It was really about putting some order back into our lives. When she started on solids it helped me to keep track of whether I’d given her pears already today or three days ago. It’s nice now to look back. It makes a nice history of her life so far.”

I am scared of the first part and understand the last part about having a track of how the little mite developed.

But I'm pretty sure I remember everything I do.. .if he fills his nappy, I change it! I don't do it just cos it's "time" and I am convinced I know when he had a piece of pear!

[trance_ga]

This is pretty crazy...but the craziest part is that people are choosing this...and who knows who else can access the statistics produced! Scary indeed!

[daniel_owen_uk]

Bah, completely sensationalist title!

It has nothing to do with Big Brother it's not Parents snooping on children, it's simply recording the information they ALREADY have access to in a more accurate way.

Some give that reported a copy of 1984 and slap him over the head with it.

[colincliff]

surely its a parents job to 'play big brother'? I'd almost go so far as to say they should play 'mother' or 'father'........

...the website is a dumb idea though imo - just adds extra stress - '...but she slepts 14.7 hours per day last week and now only 13.4, whats wrong!!' etc

edit: loving the Iphone Cry Translator linked in the article!!