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Baby Not Impressed With Jumperoo

by thunderbird
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Well, after reading all sorts of good reviews about a baby jumper toy called a Jumperoo, we bought one for our five month old baby. So far, it entertains him for about five minutes at most, then starts to annoy him. He really doesn't seem too impressed by it. After a few minutes of bouncing around in it, flipping the book thingy, tugging at toys, with music playing, lights flashing, he looks at me with a bored expression like, "What else you got?" This guy seems to like looking at paintings on our wall and our plants and listening to mama sing more than that play gadget. Oh, well, it's only the second day we've had it. Maybe it'll grow on him.

It's not the first time that good customer reviews convinced me to buy something, only to be disappointed (and I'm not talking about baby products). I guess it shows that testimonials may work, but may not be reliable.
#jumperoo review #jumperoo sucks
  • Profile picture of the author Patrician
    Well don't forget that #1 babies are individuals - and in fact may be budding individualists (let's hope not, I can tell you it complicates everything).

    You are right it might grow on him, as well as it may appeal to him more in a month from now.

    My favorite toy was my son's wind up swing. He spent countless hours in that and it often ended in him nodding out. I think jumping would be good exercise that the swing didn't have.
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    • Profile picture of the author LynnM
      Most small children (your baby is a bit young yet though) tend to find the boxes that the toys come in more interesting.
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      • Profile picture of the author Kay King
        Babies have a cruel streak - they usually ignore the toys that parents have spent hours or days researching...

        By the time my sons were about 4 the drill was clear - a hill, a hole, a box and some large blocks could keep them entertained for weeks. All the fancy "top selling toys" couldn't measure up.

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        • Profile picture of the author thunderbird
          Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

          Babies have a cruel streak - they usually ignore the toys that parents have spent hours or days researching...

          By the time my sons were about 4 the drill was clear - a hill, a hole, a box and some large blocks could keep them entertained for weeks. All the fancy "top selling toys" couldn't measure up.

          kay
          When I was a child, I knew a kid whose father owned several toy stores. I remember him as a sad and lonely little boy with a room full of the latest and newest toys...and he never played with them. Once when I was in Ecuador, that kid came to mind when I saw little children whose home was a shack on the side of a hill joyously playing with a large cardboard box like it was the funnest thing on earth.
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            • Profile picture of the author Kay King
              tbird -

              I lived in a small down that was installing a new sewer system.

              The workers went street by street with their digger thingie and dug trenches to lay the new pipe from the street to the houses. The pipe was on backorder so they were preparing to install it and the trenches were dug and left open for several weeks. The trench at my house was about 2 feet wide and three feet deep - about 20 feet long. The dirt from it was piled up and formed a hill along one side of the trench.

              My kids had more fun with toy cars and trucks and that trench. It was their daily play area until the pipe was laid and the trench filled in a couple months later. It was a clubhouse (with a piece of cardboard to make a roof), a bunker and who knows what else. Racing cars were spun over the dirt hill and crashed into the hole if they didn't make the jump.

              At one point the workers thought pipes had been installed (they hadn't) and filled in the trench without looking into it - they had to come back and redig it...and the boys had to sort through the dirt for all the matchbox cars that had been at the bottom!

              Too many toys are designed with the aim of holding a kid's attention but are single purpose and don't allow for imagination. Kids don't want to stare at a shiny thing for hours - they want to smush it, bend it, turn it upside down....make it part of something else....
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              • Profile picture of the author thunderbird
                Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

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                Too many toys are designed with the aim of holding a kid's attention but are single purpose and don't allow for imagination. Kids don't want to stare at a shiny thing for hours - they want to smush it, bend it, turn it upside down....make it part of something else....
                Yeah, I agree. I used to carve wood with sharp knives, chisels, and big hammers as a small child, and had great fun with it. There's no way I'm going to let my kid do that though Besides being dangerous, it is probably against the law. What were we talking about again? Anyway, I kind of wish I didn't buy that stupid noisy blinking jumper now. The baby still doesn't like it much.
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                • Profile picture of the author Kay King
                  Put the jumperoo away for a month and then bring it out again and the results might be totally different.

                  I used to rotate my kids toys. Toys not picked up when they supposed to be were put in a box in the coat closet. They were off limits- no arguments.

                  When the child did something extra or was very cooperative on another day he was allow to reclaim one toy from the box as a reward. Those toys were seen as "prime" because they weren't accessible.

                  Problem was, once they realized I was serious about confiscating toys, they started putting them away
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                  • Profile picture of the author thunderbird
                    Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

                    Put the jumperoo away for a month and then bring it out again and the results might be totally different. <snip>
                    Today my baby was in the jumperoo, ignoring its flashing lights, music, spinning things and staring at a painting that used to belong to my father. My brother, who is basically nuts (but makes good money from his nuttiness), thinks my son is a reincarnation of our father. I don't believe in that at all, but it is eerie how the baby stares at paintings, sculptures and other things in our place that used to belong to my father. I mean, those ones in particular, not the other ones we have. He sometimes acts like a miniature adult at an art opening.
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  • Profile picture of the author RichardCB
    I got one for my son when he was 6 months old, all he did was bite the soft foam edging and spin.
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  • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
    Originally Posted by thunderbird View Post

    Well, after reading all sorts of good reviews about a baby jumper toy called a Jumperoo, we bought one for our five month old baby. So far, it entertains him for about five minutes at most, then starts to annoy him.
    Really? Ours cried whenever we took him out of it, and would amuse himself for hours in the thing.

    After a few minutes of bouncing around in it, flipping the book thingy, tugging at toys, with music playing, lights flashing, he looks at me with a bored expression like, "What else you got?"
    Ahhh.

    Five years ago, ours didn't have that crap. It was a seat on a bungee cord that you hooked to a doorway. It didn't have a single toy on it. You jumped; that was it.

    You have given your child a menu. He thinks those are the choices. He works his way through them and is done.

    Our child, on the other hand, was left to his own devices to figure out which of an infinite range of things he should do. His favourite was to walk as far out from the door as he could and then pull his legs up so he swung back and forth bouncing and laughing. He'd do that all damn day if we let him.

    And if you search, you'll find my wife's rave review of this toy on Amazon's site, but when you buy it you will not get what we reviewed.
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    • Profile picture of the author thunderbird
      Originally Posted by CDarklock View Post

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      You have given your child a menu. He thinks those are the choices. He works his way through them and is done. <snip>
      That makes sense!
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    Update:

    Lucas did start to enjoy the Jumperoo, once he got used to it. In fact, he enjoys it quite a bit. Here he is playing on it:

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  • Profile picture of the author Sheryl Polomka
    Awwww he's so cute! Looks like he loves it.

    We had a plain old Jolly Jumper for our boys, the oldest one loved it when he was a baby, but the second one didn't like it at all. I guess all kids are different.

    Good to see he's enjoying it now!
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    • Profile picture of the author thunderbird
      Originally Posted by Sheryl Polomka View Post

      Awwww he's so cute! Looks like he loves it.

      We had a plain old Jolly Jumper for our boys, the oldest one loved it when he was a baby, but the second one didn't like it at all. I guess all kids are different.

      Good to see he's enjoying it now!
      He's enjoying it now, but will outgrow it in no time, lol. Five more pounds and he'll be at the max weight that it's supposed to handle.
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