Four year old wants an Alexa for Christmas

[QueenoftheDay]

Is this a stupid idea? Because it’s down to £35 on Amazon just now and I can’t decide whether to order it for her or not.

She was at my sisters house today and they were playing with Alexa there. She was asking her sums and spelling and playing Disney songs etc. She has not stopped talking about Alexa since we got home.

I’m just not sure. I mean it would need to stay downstairs in the living room or kitchen because I don’t think I’d want her to have it unsupervised (is that daft? I don’t actually know much about them!) but then it seems like it isn’t really a gift for her. But then I wouldn’t even have considered buying one if she hadn’t been so keen?

Any thoughts??

Data has also surpassed oil in monetary value.....

Do the sanctimonious twats understand that I do leave the house? That the questions are all day every day. In the car, at bedtime, on the school run.

Funnily enough those of us bringing up children before Alexa, had children who asked as many questions as your children do.

And did your children ever watch TV? I hope not! How terrible having your child watch Tv when it could be forced to interact with you.

Yep because watching tv is exactly the same as having a machine to answer your kids questions, read them stories, play games and tell them to tidy up or come for dinner. Exactly the same.

1. I still get plague with all the fucking questions in Christendom. It's just while your crotch droppings are watching Tv mine will be annoying Alexa for a bit.

1. I read stories every bloody night. Mostly the same book for the past 5 years!

crotch droppings
Nice. Mine DC aren’t my crotch droppings by any definition of that phrase.

It is a load of balls that amazon is listening to you all the time!

Someone said earlier that Alexa is listening and monitoring the household all the time. This is nonsense. Alexa only 'wakes up' when requested and, yes, it does collect data to 'enhance the shopping experience'. But this is no different from us clicking 'I accept' on every website we open. They are also collecting data via cookies, just like Alexa does.

They are. They originate from your crotch.
They're also crotch goblins, Overgrown sperm.
Etc etc etc

They originate from your crotch.

They originated from someone’s crotch, mine are adopted so it wasn’t mine 😁

And yes, that means I jumped through hoops to spend my days being asked why Marshall wanted to be a fire pup. Maybe Alexa knows 🤷‍♀️

That doesn't change the status of the crotch goblin.

on the school run

So not all day then.

There's more than one
I have 3.

So I can create a hunger games style life where they must compete for my love.

So far the baby is winning.

DS1 is a close Second.

DD1 needs to put more effort in.

Ah let’s be honest, the baby’s winning cos it can’t ask questions yet 😁

DD1 needs to put more effort in.

Pro Tip - they can do some ventriloquism to announce the baby offering him/herself as tribute.

Absolutely!
The baby doesn't fight with siblings or nag for a drink and then 30 minutes later ask for another drink in a different cup 🤦‍♀️

Top offspring.

I genuinely believe DD1 would offer us all for tribute.
She is savage.
She's more Snow than Katniss.

What I’d be super impressed with is an Alexa that can keep up with level of nagging needed to get my kids to do anything. This “remind them to pick up their toys” in my house would be “pick up your toys please, pick up your toys, seriously pick up your toys, have you still not picked up your toys FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THATS HOLY PICK UP YOUR BLOODY TOYS....”.