Dirt and children are two words that most often go together. A hygienic environment during the early years is always considered to be crucial for a healthy growth. Parents of infants often struggle to keep the house dirt- free.
Solving this problem, a designer has come forward with an exclusive outfit with mops fixed on the arms and legs for infants who start crawling.
According to the manufacturers of the product, BetterThanPants.com, the ultra absorbent materials used in the baby mops will polish the area the baby crawl around.
The baby mop idea originally belongs to Japan.
"The idea was originally thought up in Japan in the late 90s. They have something called Chindogu, which are like useless inventions," Mike Parker, BetterThanPants.com's press officer, told ABCNews.com.
"They had a book that came out about 10 years ago about 101 useless inventions. We've seen it, we've seen the fake commercial that floated around, and so we've been talking about using it as a real product for years. So we tried it, and put it on the site about six months ago, and it just went from there."
Even though the website struggled to sell the product initially, now baby mops have become pretty popular among parents with the company receiving 60 orders per day.
Following are some advantages of the product as provided by the website:
- A new way to introduce ethics of strong work early to the child
- Indirectly teaching babies not to drop or waste food
- Ensure physical activity for baby
- Help parents to use the floor cleaning time for other works
- Helps in saving the cost that is spent on house cleaning
The product has received both positive and negative feedback from different parts of the country.
"Come on People, it's a cute idea. Nothing wrong with a little humor here. It is not harming your baby in any way," one of the comments appeared on the website said.
"This is the laziest product I've ever seen. babies shouldn't clean or muscle tone.......your product is offensive," another comments read.
