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I put my ten month old on my scale last night, was that bad? He seems perfectly fine today, despite the (very weak) electric current going through him just 12 hours ago. I really need to monitor his weight, because he’s always been at the lower end (2nd-9th percentile) and sometimes levels off between Plunket visits, and next one is not until 1 year old. Also for medications, as of course they’re all done by weight. I thought the aria would be perfect now that he can stand (with a bit of help). I just set him up with a new family account, thinking he would be able to use my scale now, but nope, not working. It just has a clock there by his name when I tried to invite him, wondering if that’s ticking over until he turns 13 and then it’ll send me an email to accept him on the scale. And I’ve also noticed that when my Mum weighs herself on my scale as an invited user, sometimes it thinks it’s me, and then even when I say it’s her, her weight is still visible to me. This seems to be a bit of a glitch. But then if my child weighed himself I would want his weight to be visible, maybe under 14 just make the weight default visible to guardians, and a setting so you can toggle their weight visible or not. I also just want to be able to weigh my cats on it occasionally.
hi, @petitmiam , the Aria scale will present absolutely no danger to your baby. Many, many studies have shown that it is totally safe, so please don't worry at all.
I believe the reason that Fitbit does not allow young children to be added to an Aria account is due to federal restrictions on internet data applying to young children. So you can certainly safely weigh them - and your cats! - but you will have to make a manual note of their weight.
If your Aria scale is regularly confusing you with your mother, it is probably because you are roughly at similar weights. I believe there is a way that you can confirm which person it is when weighing two people in a family who have similar weight. Do the individual users initials come up and can you confirm who it is when you see the tick/check on the screen?
Haha yeah @Julia_G the bit about the electric current passing through my baby was a bit tongue in cheek. I wondered if the reason for not allowing was because of more and more young girls (and boys) obsessing over their weight nowadays, thinking they need to lose weight, etc. I didn’t even think of federal regulations seeing as I don’t live anywhere that those apply. I guess they put this in the too-hard basket now as I see it was a wee while ago. Can’t they just allow it for users not under federal law if that is the case.
Yes I realised it was confusing us when our weights became similar, but only once I saw a confirmation message on the screen, not that my mum would have seen the message or had the patience to wait for it to scroll or known what to do. I just think it should’ve hidden her weight once we established that it wasn’t mine, but it did not.
@Jamoi and @petitmiam Fitbit is licensed in the US so has to comply with their regulations. In fact, in some countries it is even more restrictive. In the European Community restrictions apply to under 16s!
My wife and I would also like to see our son’s weight to automatically record itself with his Fitbit as it does for her and I. We also are a Fitbit family and that would be a great addition to see his increase in weight charted as it tracks over time.
I recently got an Aria Air for my family. We quickly found out that only the adults could use it. That's a shame since it does support multiple accounts and both my kids have a child account and their own Ace 3's.
Hi @KyanpuSan, thanks for explaining why you would like to have the option to use Aria Air Scale to add weight details to child accounts. I've moved it into a similar suggestion which has been updated as "Under Consideration". To learn more about how Fitbit decides which suggestions get developed, visit our FAQs.
How is this not a thing? This has been asked for for years now. As a software developer I know for a fact adding this feature would be a piece of cake!
My daughter and I have FitBits so we can have fun and do things together. I bought the scale to use together and because she likes seeing how big she's getting. After getting it, I felt like I wasted the money on it since I'm the only one who can use it. Had I knowns that she couldn't use it, I would not have bought it.
Yes I sort of know the feeling. I got mine with rewards points (score!) a long time before I had my child. But he’s been having weight issues, low weight since birth nearly two years ago, and I’d really like to be able to see a weight chart for him, and set weight goals too. Would be great if I could report to his paediatrician with an accurate weight as we only see her every three months. He was admitted to hospital before Christmas and found to not have gained weight at all. He’s now learnt to pull the scales out from under the bath and weigh himself, although he stands right on the display, and puts too much weight on the bath, but I reckon I could train him to do it properly as his comprehension grows. I don’t want to see his weight as “guest” because I have to chart it myself. Also would love if I could weigh my cats on it and see their graphs. One cat is underweight and one is overweight. Going to the vet to get them weighed is too expensive. Of course I realise if you have teenagers they may fixate on their weight and get body dysmorphia and eating disorders, but that would be a minority, and surely it’s up to us to be the parents and not up to Fitbit to do our parenting for us. And you allow over 14s to use the scale, would’ve thought 14-20 to be the highest risk group for developing eating disorders. Pretty sure my toddler isn’t going to look in the mirror and decide he’s fat. Please can you leave it up to the discretion of the actual parents whether they allow their child to use the scales. Regardless the children can weigh themselves and see the weight on the scales anyway, so who exactly is your blanket rule helping?
This is very much needed! After covid, my daughter lost too much weight and we have to monitor that very closely between doctor appointments. We just "upgraded" out Aria scale as the original jwe had for many years and would allow the kids weight to be tracked ust died. Very disappointed in the so called "updated" Aria scale.
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