• yeehaw@lemmy.ca
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    23 hours ago

    “Go play outside”

    “Play with your toys”

    “Do some arts and crafts”

    “Listen to an audio book”

    “Go read”

    … So many ways parents can get a break, this is just the same but different in a more creepy way and using something that sucks up all our resources and takes our jobs.

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        8 hours ago

        If we’re just talking about that specifically then actually it might be quite good to have an audio book that uses the parents’ voice, if we ignore privacy concerns about cloning your voice.

        But the context of the post is saying more than that. They’re talking about not spending time with the child and reading to them, which I think most people disagree with. Just as I think most people would disagree with just giving a child an audiobook instead of reading to/with them, irrespective of whose voice is being used