Daddy Types: April 2005 Archives

April 2005 Archives

April 29, 2005

Red State Parenting: Umm, Conflicted?

These two stories ran side by side in the print version of my hometown paper, the Raleigh News & Observer this morning [reg. req.]: According to the expert opinion--purely academic, you understand--of the 54-year old professor who examined the evidence...
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April 28, 2005

Patchy Frog: Souvenirs for the Bugaboo

DT reader asdf (whose son is named, not qwerty, but Ezra) sends these pictures of their Bugaboo, covered with patches, souvenirs from Ezra's travels ("In 16 months, he�s been on over 30 airplanes; criss-crossed the country and visited Europe...
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April 27, 2005

HOWTO: Perform an Epidural (in Turkish)

Or Czech? Huh. I just realized that I have "pregnancy" and "newborn" categories, but no "delivery." What does that mean? I dunno, but it's probably easier to figure out what's happening in this illustrated primer on epidurals from a Turkish...
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Denny's Diner, I-95 South & Rt 10W, Chester, VA - YES, surprisingly

Denny's Diner: tastes like Denny's, looks like Johnny Rockets. The restrooms are to the left, through the gigantic smoking section. If bacon's you're kind of thing, go for the all-bacon option, not the 2 bacon/2 sausage. You'll be glad you...
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Cockeyed.com: Hospital Childbirth

On his website, cockeyed.com, Rob Cockerham is always documenting some wacky scientifical experiment or another: calculating how many pingpong balls fit in a Mitsubishi Montero, etc. For his latest project, he convinced a woman (ok, it appears she is his...
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Read Any Good Books Lately?

Huh. I've been cramming on an offline deadline (now passed, it took all my sleep with it), and tomorrow we're traveling all day, so posting will be about. this. light. again Wed., I expect. Meanwhile, I wonder if anyone would...
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April 25, 2005

Want a gay son? Moby suggests soy milk

I hope for Moby's future son's sake, he is gay, because otherwise, the kid'll grow up with all these expectations he can't meet that are put on him by his parents and society; he'll feel all different inside and wonder...
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My Pretty Sidepony

With its sparkly pens, iron-on t-shirt designs, and sweet, child-like innocence about intellectual property law, Sidepony shows that at least one girl's sixth grade dream to have her own company some day has come true. So buy an infant-sized bugaboo...
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April 24, 2005

Unborn Patriot Ornament

From MissPoppy.com, an online store for "spending your TRUE Christian dollars, where even your money is saved!" comes the Unborn Baby Ornament - US Troop Model:What if the fetus you were going to abort would grow up to be a...
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Sounds like someone needs a break

One dad-to-be's comment on another post is a good reminder that having a kid's not all pool parties and playoff games:>My husband lives at work. Sometimes i think he >would rather be there. he probably would...give us dad's and dads-to-be...
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The Barry Bonds of Diaper Champs

Whether its from their outfielders or their Diaper Champs, folks in the Bay Area know that getting maximum performance sometimes requires extreme steps. But as Mark McGuire once said, we're not here to talk about the past. So I'll just...
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April 22, 2005

me too! Portable Chair [Recyclable, Too!]

One more Earth Day-themed post just fell in my lap. A few weeks ago, an architect friend told us about the me too! Portable Chair, which they loved. It turns out to be the most expensive of the three brackets-on-the-table-edge...
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What Did You Do In The Mommy War, Daddy?

Rebel Dad points to Miriam Pescovitz's interesting-sounding book, The Truth Behind the Mommy Wars, which brings sorely lacking nuance to the debates over how women balance work and parenting. On her blog, Playground Revolution, Pescovitz writes about issues she hears...
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Daddy Type T-shirts v2.0 Are Here, Rock

[6/20 UPDATE: Buy as many as you want; daddy type t-shirts are in stock in sizes L, XL, and XXL ONLY. And remember, the run small.] Sorry, the rest are sold out and ain't comin' back. OK, the new daddy...
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The "F" is for "Fetus"

A woman went into labor this morning on the F-train. [morethandonuts, via kottke]...
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Afraid of Packing Tape? Go Figure

Huh. Yesterday when my wife showed the kid a tape measure, the retracting noise freaked her out. Then this morning, as I was packing up a box, the tape dispenser sound elicited the same reaction: a bit of startled hand...
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The Weeks Rocker

Talk about taking your rocker seriously. Master craftsman Gary Weeks spent the whole decade of the 80's researching and designing the perfect, most comfortable, most beautiful rocking chair a parent could ever want, and since 1991 he's been carving and...
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moby's birth announcement

It's the same "look like a 'father type' to attract women" strategy as rentmyson.com, but a whole lot less skeevy. By opening his latest teany book & tea shop with, "i have a birth to announce...," and "the proud parents:...
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Everyone in Hemp

While it's not jute sack, you can't go much further off the status- and brand-obsessed baby industrial complex grid than hemp. And not just any hemp, but the Louis Vuitton of hemp (sorry, old habits die hard), organic vegan hemp...
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April 21, 2005

A Playmate For Little Aryan

Awww, now isn't that cute? No, in fact, it's not. A couple in BF Australia says they didn't know what the Nazi flag meant when they hoisted it in their yard, but their 4-month-old daughter Breanna "enjoyed watching the brightly...
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From A New Dad's Diary Of His Book Tour

For some reason, this little paragraph really moved me. It's from Kevin Guilfoile's report from the road for The Morning News. He was on tour to promote his awesome (and awesomely reviewed) first novel, Cast of Shadows.In the late afternoon...
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Punk Clothes For Babies: But Who Does Canada Blame?

When times have changed, and our kids are getting worse, we in the US can blame Canada. But then who do Canadians blame for "the rise of a generation of parents whose tastes are not only a flat-out rejection of...
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So Thick You Could Eat It With A Spoon

The kid's been testing out the spoon on her own for a few weeks now, and the results are generally positive. She obviously makes a mess; she sometimes freaks out if she has to (or can't, you never know, which...
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April 20, 2005

Design 1st: The Safety 1st Avila Stroller

I first spotted this stroller over the weekend at the zoo. I wanted to find out what it was, but we were with friends, and I'd promised the wife I wouldn't accost strangers in front of the company. Fortunately, when...
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I'm Sorry Figurine

Item Number: 114011 This figurine is of a boy waving a white flag. The words "I'm sorry" are two of the most difficult words to say. Let this figurine speak for you. This piece stands 4.5 inches tall. Price: $30.00Meanwhile,...
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April 19, 2005

Announcing PopeTypes.com, The Weblog For New Holy Fathers

Actually, I just registered the domain name yesterday, and I haven't even had the time to come up with any new material. Any one's free to suggest ideas for content--especially if you've recently named your kid Benedict. Unfortunately, there's only...
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Will The Owner Of The Precious Moments Toddler Bed Please Come To The Front?

OK, first off, let me say thank you to everyone who clicks through and buys stuff at Amazon, Babies R Us, babystyle, and the other places where Daddy Types gets a little cut of the business. If you didn't know,...
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Pottymouth T-shirts for Punk(ers') Babies

With slogans like "I'm just here for the welfare checks" and "I started as an orgasm," (and those are the ones you can show Grandma) PottyMouth� (don't forget the "�") is meant to be an in-your-face alternative to dressing your...
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Danny Gregory's The Peanut, Ch. 2

The second installment of writer/illustrator Danny Gregory's fatherhood saga is up at The Morning News. I won't give away the ending, but here's a brief excerpt:In mid-September, we light votive candles. We drink Dewar�s. We play John Coltrane and Johnny...
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April 18, 2005

Rent My Son. Dot Com.

Name: Zach Age: 9 Location: Miami, FL Make Reservation/Get Quote About Me: Zach enjoys playing in the park. He has gone on several afternoons with single men trying to attract women by looking like the "father type". He also has...
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From The Gospel According To People Magazine

I'm on a work-related deadline, so posting may be a little light today. Fortunately, The angels have blessed the comments section on Daddy Types with the heartfelt stylings of Ms. Vivian Taube. Since she speaks so eloquently for herself, I...
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April 16, 2005

You're not ugly, Honey. You just have a bad haircut and dirty clothes.

You probably already know by now that parents pay less attention to their uglier children. That's the latest finding of grocery cart safety expert [sic] Dr Andrew Harrell, Director of the University of Alberta's Long, Dark Winters With Nothing Else...
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April 15, 2005

Daddy Blog Round Up

What, not posting enough for you? Thn check out the action on these other dad blogs, including a couple of new finds that I'm adding to the daddy blog list at right: Trixie Update: "...As if changing tables weren't disgusting...
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AWESOME Rocking Saab From Playsam

[Mark from Sparkability just mentioned this in the Rocking Chicken comments:] Playsam designer Ulf Hanses, who created the company's Rocking Chicken and Horse--as well as their signature Streamliner Classic car, for that matter--also created this incredible Rocking Car in 2001....
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The Rocking Chicken Song, Or What Won't Be On Oxygen

Granddad got the kid this Rocking Chicken from Playsam, the Swedish maker of sleek wooden toys. She loves it, and as she was rocking frantically on it this morning, my wife asked me for a rocking song. Stumped, I just...
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April 14, 2005

Betting On Fetus Spears

The English bookmakers William Hill are taking bets on the name of Britney Spears and Kevin Federline's baby. Here are some of the current odds. Because it's largely the British press they're playing to, they've started with names of the...
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Shoot It All, Let Oxygen Sort It Out

This one's for those who hold this truth to be self-evident, who don't even think of why you'd ever ask why: If TV is like the air you breathe, you're in luck. Oxygen, the TV network for the ladies, wants...
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April 13, 2005

Congratulations, You Can Breastfeed!

Well, not you. Babytalk won a National Magazine Award for service journalism for their lengthy August 2004 article, "You Can Breastfeed!" by Kristin O�Callaghan. With a title like that, you wouldn't expect too much advice directed to dads, and you...
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Hello, Kali: The Cutest Hindu Mythology Book Ever

And I thought the Hindu finger puppets were cute. Sanjay Patel, an animation artist at Pixar, created this amazing illustrated book of Hindu mythological figures, which he self-published under the title, Little India. (One alternative, It's A Small Hindu World...
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Freakonomics Gets All Fakeonomic On Baby Naming Trends

The Freakonomics guys shoulda quit while they were ahead. Their excerpt on how and why baby names proliferate is not only not very freaky, it's pretty flimsy. Reading it, it felt like any tuned-in parent would have a better sense...
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You Still Up?

Huh? So I'm walking home from a MoMA gig at around 11:45, and I duck into McDonald's for a cone. And there are two couples there, hanging out, with their kids--one less than one, one maybe 18 months, maybe in...
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April 12, 2005

Hey Buddy, I Wanna Talk To You

Yeah, you. The one pushing your daughter home through Central Park (East side, 64th St, on the drive that goes over Balto's head) in a blue or black BOB-looking jogging stroller at around 6PM. The one in the suit. And...
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April 11, 2005

Breast Pimps

Grabbing the story with both hands, the LA Times reports on the business and the risks of a new trend: using OPB [Other People's Breastmilk]. While the tradition of wet nurses dates back at least to 1988, when The Last...
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The Socio-Economic Impact Of "Super-Black" Baby Names

Slate is running a two-part excerpt from Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, a new book by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, which discusses the impact of giving babies super-black names (i.e., names that...
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April 10, 2005

Benny's Burrito, 113 Greenwich Ave & Jane St - NO DUH

Hadn't been there in a long while. The breakfast burritos were still fine, but there wasn't even a mens room, much less a changing table in it. It was out of order. Changing a kid on a banquette bench in...
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Crate & Barrel, 611 Broadway at Houston St - YES

The restrooms are on the second floor, on the Houston St side, behind the cash registers....
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Gear Peer-Reviewed

Some other dads have been stepping up to the plate and reviewing some gear on their own blogs: Laid-Off Dad posts about buying Robert his first (non-leather) baseball mitt: "1) nylon is more pliable and weather-resistant, and 2) the vibrant...
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April 8, 2005

Tricked Out Highchair Roundup

Call it the Tripp Trapp Effect. To me, a lot of European high chairs look like reactions, responses to, or riffs on Stokke's classic (30+year old) design. They're all wood, with a low base, and have adjustable height seat/footrests. Generations...
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USA Today, Canada Tomorrow

Times have changed our kids are getting worse they won't obey their parents they just want to fart & curse Should we blame the government? Or blame society? Or should we blame the images on TV? So much media, so...
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Thug Mugs Bug Baby

What the--? An Upper West Side mom and her 3-month-old son Jackson were mugged in broad daylight, at gunpoint, in the center of Central Park? (10AM, near the Bandshell) The guy waves a gun in the kid's face and takes...
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April 7, 2005

Grandpa, Don't Preach

In a continuation of French Day here at Daddy Types, Grandpa John Ritchie says, "Rocco is certainly picking up a lot of French. He speaks it all the time at home because Lourdes is fluent. They talk to each other...
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Whoa, Nice Basket

If you don't hear that phrase as much as you'd like, maybe you need to check out this Basket, a rocking chair designed by Vico Magistretti for the Italian furniture company De Padova. Introduced last year, the Basket is available...
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My First (Um, Totally Extreme!!)Toy Stroller

It's Rad! It's Extreme! It's ready for some serious Off-Road Adventure! Your friends' baby dolls won't know what hit'em when you roll up on them with the AWESOME Max Box toy stroller for boys-- Yes, or should I say, Oui....
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Voulez Vous Pousser Avec Moi Ce Soir?

�L�homme qui conduit son cabriolet d�une main dans les films, je trouve cela tr�s s�duisant. On retrouve la m�me attitude, la m�me d�sinvolture avec la poussette, c�est aussi une forme de s�duction. C�est la mise en sc�ne d�une certaine polyvalence,...
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April 6, 2005

Limited Edition Mountain Buggy: Umm, can I see you over here for a minute?

Not quite sure what to make of this, except maybe a caftan for your sixth step-grandmother in Talahassee. The otherwise solid and utilitarian Mountain Buggy flagship stroller, the Urban Single, is apparently available in a limited edition called, hold on...
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Baby Bandolier Carries Diapers, Yet It's Not A Bag

We were just talking last week about all the crap and gear you have to take with you when you go out with a kid. [Actually, I was kind of ragging on people I saw on the street who'd stuffed...
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Norwegian Street Art from Wooster Collective

Awesome stencil art by Dolk, in Bergen, Norway. [wooster collective, first spotted on w-m-m-n-a]...
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April 5, 2005

Oobi Drive Nail In Daddy's Brain

Did I mishear the opening song, or were we actually about to watch a show with characters named Kegel and Boobie on Noggin on a Sunday morning? No, no, no, it's Oobi, and the website says his best friend...
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Hey Caddy, er, Daddy: Danny Gregory's "Peanut"

Writer/illustrator Danny Gregory has launched Peanut, a new bi-weekly series about fatherhood, on The Morning News. In his first installment, he tees up a slightly unsettling account of his experience with (or mostly without, actually) his own father, by comparing...
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What is 36 Hours, Alek?

The amount of time it takes for black beans to work their way through a one-year old's digestive system. [An update from mommy type: "Are you sure those aren't raisins from last night?" No, I didn't take that close a...
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April 4, 2005

Advice: What Do The Following Animals Say?

Because it's getting to be a problem. From Do You Want To Be My Friend?: Hippo Giraffe Fox* Peacock From literally everywhere else: Elephant those damn Bunnies I'm actually cool if the fox doesn't say anything on principle....
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Architect Builds Tripped Out Dreamhome, Then Has Twins

Adam Kushner and his wife spent four years renovating--and living in--their West Village duplex, including six months without a roof. It has a glass-bottom tub (right over the kitchen, in case you ever wondered what a copy machine's bad dream...
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YF UK Magazine Far Less Interesting Than Its Acronym

Your Family is a new magazine for new parents published by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Richard Morrison's analysis of it in the Times of London has an all-too familiar ring to it:So there is...
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Target Gets Approval of Seal

YOW, Baby Chic 101 really works over Heidi Klum and her baby step-daddy/baby daddy-to-be Seal...for shopping at Target: "Heidi is shown holding Target baby clothing (I think I just threw up a little bit in my mouth), and various...
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How Much For The Leetle Girl??

Oh. Well, how much for her name, birthdate, and mailing address, then? GrowingFamily.com will give you a free newborn portrait in exchange for the right to sell your kid's vitals to their Network Partners (i.e., anyone they want). The pitch...
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April 3, 2005

One SAHD's Dream: A Pez MP3 Player

He calls it Citizen Manufacturing. Patrick, a stay-at-home dad has dreamed about making a Pez MP3 player for so long, he finally headed down to his basement workshop to figure it out. Now he's got a licensing deal with Pez,...
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Maartje Steenkamp's Highchair for Droog Design Adjusts (One Way)

In 2003, Maartje Steenkamp's graduation show design for an adjustable wooden highchair was included in "Your Choice," an exhibition by Droog Design at the Milan Furniture Fair. The design and the adjusting mechanism are both very simple. As the kid...
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Chinatown Wind Chime Entrances Celebrity Baby

Let's go to the tape, shot by new dad Matthew (congrats, btw) of his son Oliver being hypnotized by an $8.50 windchime purchased at a Chinatown department store. [could it be the Great Wall on the NE corner of Canal...
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Barnes & Noble Union Square - 17th St between Park & Broadway - NO

DT reader Craig reports: "the men's room off of the children's section does NOT have a changing table." See? At least B&N isn't totally homogenous......
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A Cinderella Story

I can't tell you if they have changing tables in the men's room at the ESPN Zone in Disneyland's Downtown Disney, but they do have babies in the ladies' room. At least one. From the LAT: "This seemed to be...
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April 2, 2005

Vintage Bertoia Chair for Kids

Harry Bertoia's welded wire chair for Knoll is a 1950's modernist classic. It's still in production, and when spring finally decides to stay, I'm guessing they'll be back in the Sculpture Garden at MoMA, just like the good old days....
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Makie Fleece Kimono For Your Baby Jedi

A little while back, I spotted this cool-looking (actually, it's more warm-looking) fleece kimono on friend of a friend's new baby blog and asked them where it came from. [Yes, this site has given me an overdeveloped sense of entitlement...
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Camping Out For Preschool Slots

Is it just me, or does an elaborate system of prep courses and consultants, a stress-inducing interview and screening process, and five figure tuition for pre-school sound kinda nice right now? Parents wait all night in freezing weather to enroll...
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