http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=223083&in_page_id=2

With global financial markets in turmoil parents looking in to firing their cleaners and using their babies as human mops.

Parents fed up of the take, take, take attitude of babies are turning them into human mops so they can learn a ‘healthy work ethic’ early by cleaning the floor as they crawl around.

The device is essentially a baby-grow with fluffy mop ends attached to clean up grime as a baby crawls around wooden or tiled floors.

In its sales pitch the advert reads: ‘After the birth of a child there’s always the temptation to say ‘Yes, it’s cute, but what can it do?‘

‘Until recently the answer was simply ‘lie there and cry’ but now babies can be put on the payroll, so to speak, almost as soon as they’re born.

‘Just dress your young one in Baby Mops and set him or her down on any hard wood or tile floor that needs cleaning.‘

‘You may at first need to get things started by calling to the infant from across the room, but pretty soon they’ll be doing it by themselves.‘

Hitting back at any possible criticism the advert adds: ‘There’s no child exploitation involved. The kid is doing what he does best anyway: crawling. But with Baby Mops he’s also learning responsibility and a healthy work ethic.‘

Japan is also the home of a roller cleaning device that can be strapped to a dog to clean the floor as it walks around.

*takes notes*

Nice.

Here you go little Jhonny, go crawl around the bathroom for a bit….

Doesn’t work quite as well if he rolls around rather than crawls.

THe dog idea I like. Tho I’ve never owned a dog, I do know how much they run around.
Cats always have the same paterns, they either wanna explore an area or they don’t…

But a baby….
I am kinda agaist this product….

You want them to be crawling around in a safe enviroment…. this is just going to lead to babies getting sick…. people will let their baby go in the un-explored (and un-explored for a reason).

I see many law suits from civilized societies happening from this.

Anyone had an example or picture of said product?

There is a pic with the article.

I dunno, Anicah likes to follow me around the kitchen (she crawls).  BUT, I hate for her to be on the floor of the kitchen b/c it’s the dirtiest place in the house!  The only problem is that Anicah would probably try to eat the stuff she was sweeping up with her “baby grow”. 

Our kitchen is probably the cleanest area of our house. I vacuum and mop every stinking day.

The carpet in the living room is what grosses me out. I hate carpet.

Hardwood, baby - all the way!

*pouts cuz she doesn’t have hardwood floors anymore*

My mom has hardwood in her house.  It’s much nicer than carpet (b/c of the fact you don’t have 3 inches of fabric to clean)...but the dust seems to just fly around when you sweep.  I guess the easier way would be to use something like a vacuum.

My kitchen is the dirtiest b/c I vacuum the living room (Anicah’s main play area) at night when I put her to bed & in the kitchen I wipe off the countertops…and don’t pay attention to when pieces of food go flying off the cutting board when I am preparing food.  And we throw things into the trash can from 10 feet away…but it’s blocked off by baby gates, so she can’t actually GET IN unless I let her.  And I don’t b/c ICK!

Oh, you still need to vacuum hardwood, or at least use one of those microfiber sweepers that trap the dust.

Thankfully Trinity has no interest in the garbage, unless she is throwing something out. The kitten, on the other hand….

Hey, I used to clean up under and behind furniture by chasing the cat so that she’d dive under them with her fur all standing on end.  It worked great for getting out the dustballs.

Umm…I think this thing came from a book that’s something like 101 useless inventions.  ??  Maybe.