Daddy Types: May 2005 Archives

May 2005 Archives

May 31, 2005

Ultraman Baby Baby Gear

In the late 1990's after the success of Muppet Babies and Warner Brothers' Tiny Toons, Tsuburaya, the company that owns Ultraman, introduced Ultraman Baby. The happy little alien scamp graced a wide range of baby gear, toys, and books. It...
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Ultraman Stroller from Combi: Who Knew Otakus Could Reproduce?

We have clearly just scratched the surface of the improbabl character stroller market in Japan. DT reader Sarah has found just the thing to park next to your Batstroller: The Combi M78 Ultraman Dream Baby Car. As you well know...
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Holy Promotional Tie-ins! Batman Stroller from Aprica

Day-um. When they say Batman Begins, they mean he begins in a stroller. The latest Batman movie opens worldwide on June 18th and the most unlikely licensed merchandise I can think of is now on sale in Japan: this special...
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May 30, 2005

Stokke Xplory: The Movie

Everything but techno. Stokke's desire to question the conventional wisdom apparently extends to the soundtrack of its obligatory stroller demo video. While other high-tech stroller companies lay down slightly out of date techno music, Stokke uses just about everything but:...
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Stokke Xplory Baby Bag: Not Just For 6 Month-Olds Anymore

You may call it a bassinet or a carrycot, but it doesn't matter. Stokke calls it a Baby Bag, and it's a new optional accessory for the Xplory stroller. One of the biggest hangups people have had with the Xplory...
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Amazing Diaper Recycling Program: Not Available in Your Area!

Hey, I'm all for making people painfully aware of the environmental impact their disposable diaper-wearing kid will have ["this baby will create one ton of soiled diapers by the time he's potty trained." "disposable diapers: guaranteed to last 500 years...
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American Apparel Organics

Like Levi Strauss was to the California gold rush, American Apparel is to the armies of prospecting new parents who have started hip baby clothes companies in their spare time. You can sit back and wait for your favorite hipster...
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May 29, 2005

Giving Birth in England: Whum, Bum, Thank You, Mum

You'd think that giving birth in country that gave the world Laura Ashley, and that practically invented flowery wallpaper borders--and which has a national health care program--would be a comfortable, frilly, positive experience. And you'd be wrong. The Sunday Observer...
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May 28, 2005

Captain Steubing, Was That You?

Seriously, was Daddy Types on the radio or something? Because while it's back to it's "goats asleep in the middle of the street" quiet today, yesterday's traffic surge was like the Love Boat pulling in and disgorging its well-fed, shopaholic...
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Nissan Cube: When's This Baby Due? 2007?

Listen, it sounds crazy to synch your family planning schedule with the arrival of the Nissan Cube. So just keep it to yourself. And if you just happen to be expecting a kid in 2007, and you just happen to...
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What Part Of 'Then' Don't You Understand?

Umm, all of it? For every time the kid surprises us by understanding what we're saying, there are still approximately one million times where our obviously incoherent ramblings make no sense to her. Like when we want her to wait...
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Utah No Love The Surrogates, No Love The Gays

I mentioned the "state by state maze of parenting rights" in the earlier post about surrogacy's popularity with gay couples (and vice versa), and I just found an example: Utah. You'd think a state which was founded by people who...
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May 27, 2005

Moving To The Suburbs: Apparently, It's "Those Damn Kids!" Week At Daddy Types

The NYT has a long article about families making the big decision to move out of the city--on accounta the kids, and includes a lot of seemingly helpful practical tips: don't move on a whim; find the town--or the street--first,...
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Trash: Munchkin Disposable Placemats & Bibs

When we ran out of Pampers Bibsters and Table Toppers recently [First off, what is up with that? Those Bibsters are hard to find. I guess I never considered our urban grocery/deli/drugstore chain to be off the grid. All you...
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The Surrogates Love The Gays

For a variety of logistical, political, psychological, and emotional reasons, a significant percentage of women who provide surrogate pregnancy services are working with gay couples, and they're preferring it. Apparently, gay couples are more sympathetic, they'll watch the surrogate's kids,...
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May 26, 2005

Changing The Muse's Diaper

Music writer/dad Pete Paphides says the following about seeing paparazzi photos of OasisProdigy member Liam Howlett with an infant carrier on his arm [Same with Oasis-hole Liam Gallagher. What this mistake tells me: 1) I don't care about Oasis OR...
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Suggestions For Your Hamptons Summer

Seek out these people and avoid these people. Hamptons Baby Beach Club [hrhresorts.com] Hamptons Magazine Party [gawker]...
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Car Seat Sickness?: I KNOW It's Not My Driving

So we've been waiting for months, almost, for the arrival of our Maxi Cosi Priori, the next car seat ["Don't let this happen to you" cautionary tale forthcoming, I'm afraid]. The Cabrio's been great, but even though the kid's still...
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May 25, 2005

The Gourmet Baby Crisis

Nine-month old Eric is typical of a phenomenon that has come to be known in the popular media as the "gourmet baby." He has two educated, professional parents who have delayed childbearing until their early thirties. He has all the...
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Preschool Expulsions: Maybe It's Not Those Damn Kids

Smart people are starting to unpack that Yale study showing that pre-schools expel kids at a rate 3x higher than higher grades. The result: maybe preschool itself is the problem. Of course, the theories put forward in this NYT article...
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May 24, 2005

Those Damn Kids Ruining Berlin Holocaust Memorial

Berlin just opened its Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, a gridded field of dark grey stone pillars of varying heights designed by the American architect Peter Eisenman. The abstracted, maze-like memorial is supposed to evoke feelings of disorientation...
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Calling All Manhattan Slackers

Manhattan Neighborhood Network, MNN, aka the public access channels that don't fill up with porn, is doing a roundtable discussion Tuesday at 2pm where bloggers "talk shop on the next wave of internet community building." According to the program guide,...
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May 23, 2005

New Apple Cart: The Combi Savvy

Looks like the Paltrow Martins have a second stroller for the second string. Grandma and the nanny friend Jenny [See comments. thnx, Sarah. I only know what I read.] have both been snapped pushing a Combi Ultra Savvy, a spindly,...
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WSJ: Kids Flying In First Class

The Weekend Journal has a story on the increasing number of children flying in first class, and the opportunities and conflicts this causes for airlines and their most loyal, most profitable customers: business travelers and elite frequent flyers. Of course,...
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Are We Not Messy Eaters? We Are Devo.

Yes, the Little Eater Suit from Hippychick also comes in red, blue, and green, but why would you want anything but yellow? According to the website, here's what the suit says to prospective wearers and buyers: "I protect your clothes...
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May 22, 2005

NY Art World Reaches Baby Tipping Point

From William Pym's Artforum Diary report of the opening for "Make it Now," a group exhibition at SculptureCenter in Long Island City:I have never seen so many babies at an art opening in my entire life; it was as...
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Freakonomic Bugaboo-Bashing

I'm so over these Freakonomics freaks, in part because of the whole "a little knowledge" smugness they inspire in people. Like this Chicago Sun-Times writer Debra Pickett, who now wants to get slaphappy on the dopes who use carseats and...
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Baby Daddy Clothing: Free Condom With Purchase!

Most of you, when you first heard about Baby Daddy Clothing and their catchy tagline, "Be Proud Be Involved" from the Atlanta hip-hop sensation Mr. Clutch, probably thought, "This is just another example of a celebrity trying to look good...
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May 21, 2005

Brooklyn, Utah

The Social Security Administration recently released its 2004 baby name data, and Brooklyn is the 8th most popular girl's name of the year--in Utah. It's the 101st most popular girl's name in the country. As with some other aspects of...
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The Kid Loves The Tofu

When we first started the kid on solid foods, we went with the cereal route, testing rice, oatmeal, barley, in turn, making sure the kid didn't have a bad reaction to them. [This solid food introduction process is covered well...
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The Correction: Dads In Kilts

On the subject of dads and kilts, I stand corrected--and with a cool, comfortable breeze between my legs. Utilikilts apparently mentioned my previous post--"Real men change diapers or wear kilts, but not both?"--in their recent He-man Pants-Hater's Club newsletter. The...
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11 Ounce Buffalo X-treemie 'Doing Fine'

Smaller than the glass of Diet Coke I just pounded, 11-oz. Dakota Juanita Guido is believed to be the second-smallest baby born...in the US? in captivity? I don't quite know what the hook is here. She was delivered 14 weeks...
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May 20, 2005

The Dude Has Supermodel Wife, Daughter, Bugaboo

It's been a while since we've seen a famous parent pushing a Bugaboo (besides Ian in his kitchen, of course). From Celebrity Baby Blog comes this snap of The Dude, his wife Christy Turlington [go figure. he must really be...
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It's Official

As of tonight, every single one of the kid's spoons and forks has been chewed up in the dispos-all. Just like how it's impossible to keep track of all those tiny socks, there's apparently no way to keep these little...
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Required But Difficult Reading: When A Child Dies?

Found this thread on Ask Metafilter yesterday, but it was really hard to read, much less post. It started when a woman asked for advice on how to help her best friend, who'd just lost her 6-month-old daughter. There's some...
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Classical Music Concert Series For Babies, Feti

Whatever the scientific grounding of The Mozart Effect, you're never gonna find anyone to say, "Stop playing that dadburn classical music for that helpless infant!" You will, however, find the concert halls surrounded with roadspikes, specifically designed to keep out...
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Seen Art? Reading/Signing 5/21 at MoMA

Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith are the writer/illustrator duo who brought you The Stinky Cheese Man. [I say you because Cheese Man? we don't have no Stinky Cheese Man. Sometimes I crack myself up, but most of the time I...
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May 19, 2005

Chimeras: Read Up, Then Watch Discovery Channel

Whoa, this show starts in 20 minutes. But it broadcasts many more times over the next month. There is an extremely unusual condition--it's thought to be rare, but then again, it's often discovered only be sheer accident, so who knows?--where...
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Remember The German Mutant Superbaby?

There's a kid in Germany--his identity has not been published, because, do I have to spell it out?--who has a genetic mutation that gives him incredible muscle mass and strength. Doctors are following him closely, partly to make sure that...
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Ask Metafilter, Metafilter Answers: Games for a Six-Month-Old Baby?

This question from a new dad showed up Tuesday on the Ask Metafilter section of the group blog. Definitely read through the whole thread, but here are a few highlights: Read to him Patty cake Peek-a-boo Talk to him. A...
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BabySIM Robot Delivered At Florida Hospital

[via robotwisdom] From ABC News, a story about the delivery at a Florida hospital of BabySIM, a $52,000 pediatrics training robot:At 21 pounds and 28 inches in length, BabySIM has the physical characteristics of a three- to six-month old infant,...
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KiddieRecords.com: You'll Know It's Time To Turn The Page...

This is what the web is for. Basic Hip Digital Oddio is converting classic childrens' records from the 1940's and 50's to from paper and vinyl to jpeg and mp3. Each week this year, they upload another sweet, seriously old-school...
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Parker G? How about Ali G?

Every once in a while, I wonder if I shouldn't subscribe to Daily Candy--purely for research purposes, you understand. What if I missed something really good? I should relax. Because when something good like, say, chenille-rimmed sungoggles built into a...
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Americans Can Now Invest In A Nest Egg

Until now, getting a Nest high chair in the US was no easy feat. These sweet, shagpad-ready pods by Bug Design were published all over the place when they came out last year, but they were only available for purchase...
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May 18, 2005

More ICFF Cribspotting

Listen here, Sonny. You don't know how easy you got it, with your International Contemporary Furniture Fair sporting as many as "seven or eight" new choices for high quality, modern design baby furniture. Ducduc? Miguel? Galeano-Poggi? Why, when I was...
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Quinny Freestyle 3 and 4 in Wal-Mart Fire Sale

DT reader Steven spotted Quinny's mainstay model, the Freestyle, for sale in an unexpected place: Wal-Mart.com. How did a famously Europe-only brand end up in that American-est of stores? Turns out Quinny had attempted a US launch until last year,...
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Daddy Showers: What Happens In Memphis Stays In Memphis

Not anymore. I just received this request for help from a parenting magazine writer. If you or your buddy fits the bill, I'm sure she'd appreciate hearing from you. Email mediahelp@daddytypes.com, and it'll automatically forward to her:I am doing a...
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May 17, 2005

Dungeons & Dragons Naming Techniques

Now, I'm no expert, so I don't know if just naming your kid after your favorite D&D character is the highest honor, or the skeeviest error, like naming her after your psycho ex-girlfriend (and not telling your wife that's where...
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From The Dungeon Master's Guide To Good Parenting

At Defective Yeti, Matthew writes about a Positive Discipline Association seminar he and his wife attended in Seattle. There was something about roleplaying puppets, something about praise, and then an exercise to determine where on a bi-axial grid (x=Kindness, y=Order)...
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FLASH! National Preschool Hoodlum Epidemic

According to a just-released study by the Yale University Child Study Center, preschool-age kids are being expelled at an alarmingly high rate, up to 3x as frequently as K12-age kids. The causes or reasons aren't clear, or rather, they're not...
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DucDuc Clues: Baby Furniture Spotted At ICFF

The International Contemporary Furniture Fair is at the Javitz Center week. What that meant over the weekend: nothing, just that 11th Ave was swarming with pedestrians, furniture designers decked out for an afterparty--in the middle of the day. What...
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The Peanut Series, Vol. 4: It's Short For "Jacuzzi"

In the latest installment of Danny Gregory's The Peanut Chronicles, he and PL tell the Ohio relatives about the pregnancy--antics ensue--and contemplate names:We already have three Jacks. Jack Waldman was a friend of Patti's, a musician, who died just a...
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Summer Beach Reading: Children and Nazi Germany

Hm. It's not fashion week anymore. Nicolas Stargardt's book, Witnesses of War, looks at the lives of children under the Nazis in WWII, Germans (Aryan and non-), Poles, Jews. It's a complicated and brutal subject, one that has been wilfully...
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May 16, 2005

"Clean up your toys, or Roomba will eat them!"

"I for one welcome our robot vacuum overlords," or a life lesson to that effect. On his blog, The Long Tail, Wired honcho Chris Anderson posts about his kids' warm, cuddly, yet well-disciplined relationship with their Roomba Discovery:Although it's fine...
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The New Yorker: How To Overdo It On The Ugly Kid Thing

Paul Rudnick, normally one of the funniest writers anywhere, has a very long, very tedious, one-joke piece about how to raise an ugly child, based on that Canadian grocery cart research: "I did, however, begin to read to Lisa, and...
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Scion xB: The 'B' is for baby

From this Edmunds.com review, the Scion xB sounds so perfectly suited for hauling around a baby and his gear, I wonder if new parents--not just new freshmen--aren't Toyota's secret target market:One of our editors, who used the xB to take...
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May 15, 2005

Cute Little Beggar

So for weeks now, we've been thinking, the kid sure has her "B's" down. She'd be all, "bee bee bee bee" this and "bee bee bee bee" that, and we'd tell her, "what baby?" Now we (ok, my wife) figure...
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May 14, 2005

Baby Massage: Is That A Trend I Smell?

Despite what this slightly freaked out mom might think, the baby massage technique known as Indian milking does not originate in the Kamasutra:"If it's a boy," she said, "it's even weirder: dim the lights and put on mellow music and...
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May 13, 2005

X-Rays of Things In Kids' Stomachs

"We see coin, after coin, after coin, after coin, after coin, after coin," Dr. Frank McGeorge said. I raced out of the house so fast with the kid this morning, that I didn't notice she was sucking on a penny...
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May 12, 2005

Home Birth: The Flash Movie

Talk about your involved dad. In the credits of his Flash movie (actually it's more of a slideshow) documenting the home birth of his son Jude Roman, Daniel Fairbanks's line reads "web design, art direction and baby maker." And while...
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Only Your Crib Salesman Knows For Sure

Is this really a New York City trend? Heaven help us all. Apparently, there are pregnant people who won't find out the sex of their baby beforehand--no news there--but they will let their baby shoppe salespeople know, so they can...
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May 11, 2005

Holy Crap. Little Ruler Baby Skate Gear

Someone emailed about all the clothing posts recently and asked if it was Fashion Week at Daddy Types. Hadn't noticed it, to be honest; maybe it'all the puking. [sick kid > puking > models > fashion week, you with...
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"The expectant dad tries to envisage pushing this snazzy thing around town with a baby inside."

That's the caption on the final picture, where DT reader and dad-to-be Ian poses with their newly assembled Bugaboo Cameleon. It just arrived, apparently, and with about a week to spare. His yet-to-be-field-tested assessment: "The improvements with respect to the...
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May 10, 2005

Real Men Change Diapers Or They Wear Kilts, But They Don't Do Both?

Until I saw them again on the Nano-Tex site, I'd forgotten completely about Utilikilts, the heavy duty (canvas, twill, denim, leather, or camo) "unbifurcated garment" of choice among Seattle's manliest bikers and construction workers. Utilikilts have deep pockets for holding...
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Fighting Drool With Nano-Tex?

Great, just my luck. A stain- and moisture-repellent fabric technology comes on the market, and I finally have hope that I'll be able to wear my suits, black sweaters, and navy shirts again without worrying about spit up, drool, and...
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The Paternity Leave Discussion

Michelle and Joe are both doing medical residencies and are expecting their first kid this summer. It's hard to imagine more intense, demanding jobs, even in NYC, but it's easy to imagine the discussion about paternity leave that Michelle posted...
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New Wave Baby Gear from Angelic Genius

In Los Angeles's increasingly crowded hipster-mom-designed-baby-gear scene, newcomer Angelic Genius stands out by offering T-shirts and one-pieces inspired by a fresh crop of bands you used to like, like, um, I'm sure trademark law forbids me to say who this...
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Baby In The Machine: Automatic Cry Translator Heralds Childrearing Utopia

After painting your newborn's nursery his (newly discovered) favorite color, you'll be able to find out if he likes it. If you speak Japanese, that is. Researchers in Nagasaki are readying a device which will translate a baby's cries and...
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May 9, 2005

"Who's Your Daddy?" "No idea. All I Know Is, He Said He's Straight"

In the name of preventing the accidental transmission of HIV, the FDA is recommending sperm banks should screen out gay donors. Gay rights groups are challenging the rule as bigoted and not based on science; they point out that HIV...
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Bright Red Is The New(born's) Black

According to the latest research at the Nottingham Toddler Lab, in England, newborns (ok, 4-9 month-olds) can not only distinguish 'colours,' they have 'favourites.' To test this, researchers observed how long a baby would stare at a solid 'coloured' screen....
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The APT - 419 W 13th St, Meatpacking District - CLOSE ENOUGH

But there are sofas and dark nooks everywhere. Just watch the smell now that everywhere is no smoking (and why would be taking your infant to a smoke-filled bar anyway, right? RIGHT? heh)...
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Cubee: Singing Blocks

From the company that brought you home-karaoke and the electronic dog bark translator comes Cubee, a pyramid scheme of six block-shaped animals that moo, quack, or tweet out three different songs apiece. But when you stack them, the top dog...
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Happy Mother's Day [Blech]

Forget breakfast in bed. Around our house, the way to treat mom all special is to catch the kid's vomit yourself while mom sleeps in. Although later, my wife caught the bedtime bottle in her skirt (it was on its...
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May 8, 2005

Free TiVo for your Baby

Sound like a fair trade? Have your baby at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas over the Mother's Day weekend, and TiVo will give you a free box and lifetime service. All they apparently ask in return is to just put...
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May 7, 2005

Jon Stewart Seen Buying Flowers, Wine at Whole Foods

This just in a from a DT reader who's apparently unfamiliar with the ways of wooing:Just saw Jon Stewart leaving Whole Foods Union Square with a bouquet of flowers as big as he is, and a case of wine, which...
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May 6, 2005

Rebel Dad On The Motherhood Project

Over at Rebel Dad, Brian unpacks someone's supposedly groundbreaking research about parenting especially which--surprise!--turns out to conveniently support their organization's pre-existing political agenda. And then he makes breakfast! Rebel Dad looks at The Motherhood Project findings [rebeldad.com, "posted at 6:01AM"]...
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NEWS FLASH : Strollers Are Sometimes $tatus $ymbols

This just in from USA Today, the paper business travelers wake up to every morning outside their Hyatt room doors: "status" is a great gift idea for the "upwardly mobile mom." You could buy her a pricey stroller, for example....
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May 5, 2005

And Tango Makes Three: The Story of America's Most Beloved Gay Penguin Family

It's a story that kinda kicks the cinderblocks out from under the rusty ol' car that is "gays ain't natcherl." Tango Makes Three is the true story of Roy and Silo, two male penguins who've been in a committed, monogamous...
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Lucy Sykes Baby: Clothes "for mini-me and mini-he"

Talk about ye random brand extensions. My old Hamptons possemate Euan Rellie has had a baby named after him, a sitcom named after him, and now, a jacket named after him. The first and last are thanks to his wife,...
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Impressionable Suckers R Us

In the Washington Post today, staff writer and dad-to-be Jeff Turrentine writes about the paralyzing horror of outfitting buying everything you need for the nursery. He first writes about conspicuous consumption as a factor, but since he's really only shopping...
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Babysitter-palooza

For those parents who wish to relive their wildest Lollapalooza memories with their kids, forget it. The van's been sold, the weed's been smoked, the tattoo's been lasered off. Those days are over. For the rest of you, who are...
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RE: Your Son's Penis

Got your attention now? Not being the father of a boy, I've never had to decide the fate of another man's penis. And so whatever perspective or advice I might've come up about circumcision with didn't seem worth that much...
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May 4, 2005

There's Nothing Funny About Stroller Addiction. Well, Maybe A Little Funny...

Becsy, who has seven strollers, and who just ebay'ed her Quinny Buzz, recently left this comment elsewhere on the site. If anyone else out there is struggling--or is watching helplessly as a spouse or partner struggles--with stroller addiction, please seek...
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Freakonomize Your Kid's Way Into Harvard

Those Freakonomics guys are at it again. This time, in USA Today, they're excerpting--or at least giving an executive summary--on how "Parenting technique is highly overrated." It's not what you do, they claim, it's who you are that determines your...
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MacGyver, Reisenthel. Reisenthel, MacGyver

A couple of times when I've forgotten to bring one, I've improvised a bib by tying a plastic grocery bag around the kid's neck and tucking it into her restaurant high chair strap. Maybe that's why, when I saw this...
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Put. The Scissors. Down.

According to a newly published study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, episiotomies provide "no benefits and actually cause more complications." "'The evidence is clear: Routine use of episiotomy is not supported by research and should stop,' said...
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May 3, 2005

The Peanut Chronicles ch. 3: 'I think we're pregnant'

Writer/illustrator/adman Danny Gregory's chronicle of fatherhood continues at The Morning News. In this installment, about the only thing Gregory and his wife figure out is they're having a baby. The Peanut Chronicles: Dead Rabbit and Beyond (November) [tmn]...
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That's why they call it "reproduction"

From the frontlines of East Village parenthood, Katherine Stewart confesses to being shocked, shocked that her kid isn't unique: turns out every other Sophia, Ava, and Maya in town does baby yoga, too. The moral: don't name her Sophia because...
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That's One Ugly Child In The NYT

You already read about how parents pay less attention to their ugly kids, so the NY Times article won't be totally new (although it does have some previously unreported details of the study). I just thought the ugly kid in...
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May 2, 2005

Classic: NY Baby Afraid Of Grass

Jen from Gothamist gives a heads up on one Manhattan dad's attempt to acquaint his son with the wonders of nature, as reported in The NY Times Metropolitan Diary:On a recent weekend, I took Lukas, my 11-month-old son, to the...
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"I can see her subdomain!"

Megablogger Matt Haughey is blogging his daughter's birth for friends and family. Friday, he got her little subdomain all set up: fiona.haughey.com His wife's due date was Sunday, and things started picking up a bit in the wee hours this...
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Celebrity Baby Blog T-Shirts

Looks like blog t-shirts are this year's must-have accessory. Like Ugg boots and messenger bags. And babies, too, I guess. Because Danielle at Celebrity Baby Blog just launched a new line of t-shirts for babies and moms. Just moms? I...
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May 1, 2005

Muji Strollers

As design junkies the world 'round already know, Muji is the brand of choice for people who don't like chasing brands. The name means "no logo" in Japanese, and the company produces practically everything from toothpicks to clothing to an...
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