Wherein we keep Totakaze from pushing our buttons
Monday, August 21, 2006

Babies love electronics — especially electronics with buttons. From the moment she first grabbed a remote control at three months old, we knew we were going to have to keep an eye on our gadgets around Totakaze.

A year later, she still enjoys clicking buttons on the remote, but she’s also graduated to fiddling with keychain fobs, stereo equipment, and — to our great and unending dismay — Mamakaze’s PC tower.

There seems to be some sort of invisible bullseye on our computer’s power button, because Totakaze is able to race across the room in a mere instant and destroy whatever unsaved work we might have up on our computer at a given moment. We’ve tried barricades and time-outs, but it is futile trying to get between a toddler and a shiny, powerful button.

Mamakaze feared we might have the only tot with a propensity for data destruction, but apparently we’re not alone. Unless Leaps and Bounds has gotten inside our head somehow, we suspect that the PC Guard Tower Protector was a creation born of necessity.

The PC Guard attaches to any computer case with Velcro straps and keeps the buttons and slots away from those curious, tiny fingers. The unobtrusive design is available in either black or grey to complement your computer equipment. Mamakaze found our PC Guard Tower Protector online at Leaps and Bounds.

It’s just a wild guess, but we’re thinking that we’re not the only mama out there who could benefit from having a toddler-proof PC.