Introduction: Teach Your Unborn Child About Star Trek
It's never too early to teach your kids about Star Trek! In week 23 fetuses begin to be able to hear. The sounds they hear while in the
womb have been shown to calm babies down when they are repeated after they are born. Using this logic, reading to your baby about Star Trek while close to the womb will result in them being comforted by similar readings later on.Star Trek has a positive message about our species and its future, a rare thing in popular media. Star Trek also teaches kids valuable STEM skills, (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) which are excellent primers for rewarding and solid careers later on.
There's really no downside! Start in week 23 and live long and prosper.
Below are photos and videos about my attempts at this with our first son, and our coming baby girl.
20 Comments
11 years ago on Introduction
You need to make a video on "How to teach your baby Klingon" LOL. but it's great your talking to the kid, so when are you planning on building the Enterprise NCC 1701?
anyways, great video.
Live Long and Prosper \\//
Reply 5 years ago
Which enterprise a b c d e or original archer timeline
Reply 11 years ago on Introduction
Get a pillow and woman who will play a long and make one yourself! I'm getting too busy with the kid a few weeks away from due date...
6 years ago
Love it!
8 years ago
i will certainly do this too :-)
9 years ago
XD I like
10 years ago on Introduction
love it!
11 years ago on Introduction
that's so nerdy, and so awesome
you'll be a very cool dad =D
a little old time, but cool. =D
my dad got me to watch star wars, and I've seen all movie's a few times over since then. resulting in awesome quotes, gifts and discussions (leaving my sisters an mother face palmed)
Reply 11 years ago on Introduction
Thanks everyone for your comments. It's a boy! Public pics here:
11 years ago on Introduction
I never knew Commodore Decker had a child!
While I agree with jxross about the illogic of a human female being in close proximity of a Trekkie, I do agree with the author about the rarity and value of a popular show giving a hopeful future and positive view of science. (Even if that science has air quotes around it).
As a side note I had all those books when I was young, and now miss them terribly.
Reply 11 years ago on Introduction
Re: "Science" agreed, the science isn't pure, but it's not as far from reality as one might think.
11 years ago on Introduction
I call BS and reject the entire premise of this Instructable outright.
There is no way that anyone that fanatical about Star Trek is going to get close enough to an actual living human female to ever find themselves with an unborn child!
Reply 11 years ago on Introduction
LOL. It's a bit of a parody on my part for comic affect. I hadn't had that shirt on in years and only rarely say Live Long and Prosper to her belly.
I was inspired by this parody of a PSA using Star Wars along the same lines.
11 years ago on Introduction
Only problem at 23 weeks the mother is able to hear also and may not want to listen about star trek for the rest of the gestation.
My wife wanted me to read to my daughter when she was still in the oven but my wife was not a big fan of the "Soldiers manual of common tasks book"
Reply 11 years ago on Introduction
You will be policing pine cones for the rest of your life if you don't listen to the Command Sergeant Major of the house.
Reply 11 years ago on Introduction
my wife may think she is the CSM but I am her senior rater!
Reply 11 years ago on Introduction
Yes Ma'am!
Reply 11 years ago on Introduction
So true. Sometimes I only have time at night to sneak in a quick whisper of "live long and prosper"
11 years ago on Introduction
If this works, it is really scary ! :-)
11 years ago on Introduction
Humans are so illogical. A quick Vulcan mind meld would do the trick.