Parents Look-at-Me Camera

I am a photography nut. I love my camera like it's my fifth child. I have thousands of photos in albums and thousands more stored in various hard drives.

So, one of two things will happen with my children. They love taking photos or, as a knee-jerk reaction, they'll hate it.

It appears that my boys could care less about pictures but they are also "those ages" where they kind of think anything I do is lame and dorky.

My girls, on the other hand, are still willing models for my shutterbug whims. They are also interested in running over and seeing what the picture looks like on the viewing screen. (Remember back in the day the closest we could have gotten to this immediate gratification was a Polaroid? And it still might have sucked.)

So the girls were pretty excited to try the Parents Look-at-Me Camera because they don't get to use my Rebel, EVER, there are no simple cameras for them to try...finally, they can try something for themselves!

I think one of the cool things is the shutter noise. The first digital camera I ever bought made a really cool shutter noise and I kind of miss it because my Rebel doesn't do that (it makes a noise, but not the same). So that makes the girls feel like they're really taking a grownup picture.

There's also disco music and the mirrored lens is along the lines of those mirrors in the fun house at the carnival where you are enticed to check yourself out from all angles.

As a fun toy and "starter" camera, the Parents Look-at-Me Camera is a great choice if for no other reason than it is crazy cheap. The press release I got said $15 but on the Target website it was listed at $9.99.

People. Even if your children are incredibly destructive and have the thing busted in a week (they won't) it was TEN BUCKS. And it's for ages 12 months +. So, that's pretty much anyone who can sit up without assistance.

I'm looking at this as a great gift idea for all the friends' birthday parties my girls get invited to throughout the year because ten bucks is about what I spend on friends for all these parties.

If I were to look thru all the reviews of kids products I've done this year, this just might qualify as the least expensive one of the whole year...so if you have economy woes, the Look-at-Me Camera is a solid choice.

Official website of Parents
Click here to get the camera at Target

This review courtesy of Team Mom