Video camera to monitor child - thoughts?

[rkp]

we toured open houses yesterday and saw something that was new to me.  in one of the houses, each of the children's rooms had a camera mounted on the ceiling and i assume the parents can see into each room.  i have a baby and a baby monitor and i get having a camera for a very young child but i have never seen cameras in slightly older kids rooms.  this particular room looked like it belonged to a 5 year old and it felt odd to me. 

i honestly can't imagine having our baby monitor in baby's room past age 2, maybe even age 3 but wanted to see what others thought. 

 

[qwerty]

i have a DLink DCS-1130 to monitor my dogs while im at work.

maybe it is not a child monitoring thing, but a security thing? i know with the camera i bought, i can get one for each room and i would be able to see up to 32 cameras on one screen.

 

[irvinehomeshopper]

I have one at my house to spy on my cat. Apparently while I am at work I see her taking an online course at John Hopkin CTY program.

 

[roundcorners]

I suggest moving this thread to the Tech section...


https://market.android.com/details?id=com.tappytaps.android.babymonitoralarm.full&hl=en

My son is almost 3 and we will continue to use a monitor indefinably; we've been protective of his sleep since 6-months old, and check on his sleep almost obsessively... yes we still keep track of how long his naps are on a daily basis and adjust his bed-time to correspond...