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A colleague read the Zachary story yesterday (Baby + Nokia = fail. Google = fix) and suggested a technique for distracting babies: Have a second keyboard on your lap when using a computer. Baby plays with it and thinks s/he’s back seat driving.

Phones are different, apparently. Old handsets don’t work. Babies can tell the difference. They’re growing up mobile. The way Zachary eyes my shiny iPhone, I think my other half’s Nokia is already safe.

Please suggest other decoy ideas in the comments. I’ll take ideas that work temporarilly as a ‘win’, in the same spirit that there’s no such thing as baby-proof, only baby resistant. Even the best decoys will only work for a time.

My other half’s old Nokia phone is stuck in headset mode so she can’t hear any calls. Happened after 8 month old Zachary had had a little play.

She Googled the symptoms, as I’d recommend everyone to do, with any tech problem. If there’s an actual error message, even better.

Anyway, there are 28,500 results for: “nokia phone stuck headset baby.”

Online you’re never alone with a problem. My favourite comment, “mine kept doing this eveytime my baby girl gave it a suck!! worked once it dried out.” Main suggestion if that doesn’t work – hasn’t for us – are to clean the connectors at the bottom with an old toothbrush. We’ll try later on when she returns with the problem mobile. For now, it’s still good for texting.