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if I invented a giant hamster wheel to put my kids in when they seem like they need to burn some sreious energy, it would sell? Very AP, don't you think?
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if I invented a giant hamster wheel to put my kids in when they seem like they need to burn some sreious energy, it would sell? Very AP, don't you think?
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Hmmm. I can see Amalia running around in something like that with a big grin, but eventually she would figure out some way of getting it to make some sort of hideous noise.
Posted by: Erik Keilholtz | October 28, 2003 1:32 PM
don't they have them at mcdonald's playplaces? At least that is what they look like when I drive past....
Posted by: alicia | October 28, 2003 2:28 PM
We went there for lunch today for just that very reason. Being there is what made me think of the hamster wheels LOL
Posted by: Pansy Moss | October 28, 2003 3:23 PM
Davey's daddy would buy one.
Posted by: Davey's mommy | October 28, 2003 5:31 PM
There is a really human size hamster wheel at a park in the town where my sister in law and her family live (Olney, Illinois....home of the white squirrels).
Funny thing, though, the only one whose energy it burned was mine, since none of the kids was quite big enough to get it moving well (kids aren't little either 11, 8, 7 and 6!) I could only get it moving so fast before I was dying of laughter...
Posted by: Cathy D | October 28, 2003 5:35 PM
It would be very popular if you put in a feature that made it light up or play a tune when the child got it going really well. That way tired, cranky children could get in it and just swing, while children who are really wired could run like the dickens on it and have the fun of getting it to play "Pop Goes the Weasel". It has possibilities, definite possibilities.
Posted by: Elinor | October 28, 2003 9:12 PM
sign me up for two, christmas is just around the corner. also, while you're inventing nifty gadgets, do you think you could make one of those battery operated baby swings in an adult size? much obliged.
ps-i still assume AP stands for attachment parenting. am i right?
Posted by: smockmomma | October 28, 2003 11:11 PM
I would totally get one! And for those of you that wanted to see what the one in Olney, IL looks like, my curiosity led me to this site, featuring some pictures of the wheel in action. :)
Posted by: Davey's Daddy | October 28, 2003 11:53 PM
Davey's daddy -- so would that be for you or for Davey? ;)
I know Hambet could use one of these, but what if we could get one of these rigged up in an adult size and wired it up to play The History Channel once the user sustained a certain speed.... my chubby hubby would be an Olympian! Fair is fair, so for his chubby bride you could set it for Jane Austen movies and other A&E adaptations.
Posted by: Peony Moss | October 29, 2003 6:48 AM
Elinor's idea is great.
I suddenly remembered that there is a big one of these in Lithia Park in Ashland, OR. As teenagers we would run in it until all but one had fallen out. It is amazing that none of us broke bones in that thing (or that the City of Ashland still keeps it - maybe they are trying to reduce the teenager population).
Posted by: Erik Keilholtz | October 29, 2003 4:27 PM
Smockmomma -- yes, AP is for attachment parenting. And I think Pansy was sarcastic about the AP quality of a hamster wheel for kids :)
Posted by: Davey's mommy | October 29, 2003 5:02 PM