Friday, February 20, 2009
Kidzkamp Shampoo Rinse Cup. Ennh.
Posted by Missy W. @ 8:57 AM
This is the sort of product that when I saw it, I thought, YES! Perfect $4.99 solution for our hair washing disasters! I’m totally scooping this up instead of focusing on baby spoons like I should be! But when I got it home, I realized that I would have been way better off spending that particular $4.99 on a latte to fortify myself for the impending bath…
It sounds good enough, doesn’t it? The Kidzkamp Shampoo Rinse Cup “prevents shampoo from stinging your child’s eyes with this clever shampoo plastic rinse cup. Its soft, flexible edge forms a water-tight bond against your child’s head making it easy to pour water and rinse out shampoo without getting it into the eyes. Your kids will thank you.” My kid would do no such thing. My kid wanted to rip that thing right out of my hands and huck it into the trash can. [A few words on Sy’s bath challenges: she loathes getting water on her unless it’s on her terms. Fall down at the lake - throw a hissy fit. Ummm….You are at the LAKE. Lakes are made of water? Get caught in a rain storm - insist on all new clothes and sitting in front of the heater for 20 minutes to dry off. Walk by mom when doing the dishes and get touched by a semi-soaked hand - dissolve into fits and run out of the room straight into the loving arms of a dry towel.]
Because of her cat-like reaction to water, washing hair has always been a challenge. If the water even so much as touches her ears, she pretty much bolts right out of the bath and GAME OVER. So I figured a specially designed rinse cup would be the perfect solution. Naught.
Here’s why I wish I’d had the latte:
It’s too big for a little kid head. When I try to push it up to Sy’s head to make the seal, it doesn’t really fit. So therefore when I pour the water oh-so-gently over her head, it goes straight into the No Fly Zone, the dreaded ears. And you can forget about using it with a baby’s head. The water flew right over Baby G’s head into the water behind him.
It has two compartments, I guess to get different parts of the head, so if you don’t scoop the water up equally into the two compartments, you miss the entire front half of the head. It irritates Roger that you can’t really fill it up more than half full or it spills all over your kid’s head before you even begin to rinse.
So what do we do with the dreaded latte-replacement device? Sy uses it to make “soup” but she uses Everything to make soup, so now I just have one more dumb thing in the bathtub that she has formed a long-lasting soup-making attachment to. We hairwashers fill it up and pour it out of the corner to rinse her hair, just like the stupid measuring cup we were using before. At least it only takes one scoop instead of four. Ooh, lucky us!
I’m pissed I spent $4.99 on it.
Stupid impulse buy.
End of caffeine-withdrawal laden rant.
Oh and P.S.,
I LOATHE IT when companies spell kid’s products with hokey misspellings. Kidzkamp? Really? That the best you can come up with? I can’t help it. Spelling was my favorite subject when I was little. OK really, I promise, rant over.
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February 20, 2009 @ 12:05 PM
bonnie said:
thanks for this one MR, it was on my list of things to buy and try. now I’ll stick to the measuring cup. what am I saying…dad does all the washing. I’ve only bathed my son 1.5 times in 4mo. (emergency situations like going to baby&me; class where baby beauty contests inevitably take place, or dad had too much red wine last night.) Now i’ll need a new anniversary gift idea for my husband :-O