One of the conundrums of new parenthood is what exactly to do with this little person. I mean, little babies don't exactly do much. As far as older babies and toddlers, geez, there's only so much peek-a-boo a person can play, you know?

The answer, my friends, is in a video game. Not playing one with your very young children, mind you, using one.

There's  a game for the handheld Nintendo DS called Sukusuku Kosodate DS, or Sukusuku Parenting DS that offers parents a whopping 176 suggestions of games to play with your young child.

Okay, it's  in Japanese, and some of the suggestions are just very bad. Like, this bad. Like putting a sheet over you so you look like a ghost and chasing your child around the house (shown in the picture here). And um, based on the link I clicked through Siliconera, it's exclusively in Japanese. Which I neither read or speak, so my apologies if this is some overdue April Fool's joke or something.

One part of this that does sound cool – there is a database of children's songs included, and a place to jot down things you want to remember about parenthood.  Maybe that I would use instead of the neglected "baby journal" someone gave me and hasn't seen a word about my son yet.