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Sedate Your Kids While They Play
If your child won't sit still at the dentist, the doctor, or the kitchen table, you need the PediSedate Helmet. The device consisting of a colorful headset that connects to a game component or a portable CD player. After a snorkel attachment goes into the child's mouth, the helmet will monitor respiratory function and distribute nitrous oxide or anesthetic gas. The company website states, "The child comfortably becomes sedated while playing with a Nintendo Game Boy system or listening to music. This dramatically improves the hospital or dental experience for the child, parents and healthcare providers."
Do they make an adult model? Where's my checkbook....
Is CE marked, UL listed, and Pedobear approved!
It's a joke.
I think.
I hope.
God, don't let this be true.
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The kid died from respiratory obstruction due to a malformed lower jaw and pneumonia. The article you're linking to mentions that the NO2 did aggravate those factors, but it was hardly the cause. Also, the article is from 1926 and the death occurred in 1923... pneumonia was the 2nd leading cause of death in 1923 as well.
Oh god, that woman is John Romero!
If you RTFA it's not a joke, but it's not meant for home use, it's for doctors to use in the doctor's office to put kids under with less anxiety.
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It's not meant for parents. Easier way to sedate a child for medical purposes. RTFA
Parents use Strawberry flavored milk and sudafed.
I would take more of a compromise tack. Instead of opening a can of whoop-ass on your little delinquent, or using some wishy washy sedation on them, I suggest heroin*. It's both soothing and hardcore.
Also, a benefit of being their drug dealer is that you can cut them off when they have been naughty. It's a great disciplinary tactic, at least until they are big enough to commit drug-related crime to get more.
You can also ensure that your kids have only the purest and safest (relatively) dosages and that they use clean needles too!
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RTFA!!!!!!!
It is for medical use only. Evryone that is bitching about Parents not being parents, and ADD, smacking kids, etc. Please RTFA
It's the TYPE of control I object to, not control. My sons, three of them, have all been exceptionally easy to manage without drugs or anything similar. I use spanking and similar old fashioned methods and always have. Frankly, when spanking properly, you don't have to spank so often and eventually not at all. But every time I see a parent attempt to "medicate" behavior I get angry because the potential damage is pretty obvious to me. Kids need to be TAUGHT not medicated.
Dr. Foster: Would you please tell your son to stop?
Ned's Dad: We can't do it, man! That's discipline! That's like tellin' Gene Krupa not to go [starts banging on the desk] "boom boom bam bam bam, boom boom bam bam bam, boom boom boom bam ba ba ba ba, da boo boo tss!" We don't believe in rules, like, we gave them up when we started livin' like freaky beatniks!
Dr. Foster: You don't believe in rules, yet you want to control Ned's anger.
Ned's Mom: Yeah. You gotta help us, Doc. We've tried nothin' and we're all out of ideas.
Simpsons, "Hurricane Neddy"
Not a parent, huh? You have to get them to cooperate enough to get the nitrous dispenser hooked onto their face. If they view the headset as a toy to be used while videogaming, you're far more likely to get them to cooperate.
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If you're not comfortable with heroin, I'd like to recommend meth! It's got the added advantage of encouraging your children to clean your house and themselves! Citation. Plus, when they're not actually on it they can hum the song that's almost as addicting as the substance itself!
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Kids need to be TAUGHT not medicated.
Wow, you teach your kids to sit still while their teeth are being drilled without any anesthetic? You must, since these are medical devices, and not for parental use. That's pretty hard-core, dude.
I think samzenpus was hired to make kdawson look competent by comparison.
holy crap! You hands are huge too! and why the hell is my tea kettle falling asleep? I'm not sitting on it.
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