February 23, 2006

Tiny Tots Traveling Tropical: Terrible? Or Totally!

+ ? A question from Shawn, an unseasonably pale new dad:My wife and I travel tropical at least once a year. We skipped last year during my wife's pregnancy. We just had our first child in January, and we're...
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Vintage Photos Of Kids As Cowboys

Finally. photographic evidence that the trend of dressing up like a cowboy did not start with Brokeback Mountain. Vintage Kids as Cowpokes Photo Pool [flickr via boingboing]...
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Leaked: New Audi Allroad Photos

The new Audi Allroad Quattro will debut at the Geneva Auto Show, but photos started popping up on the autofanblogscape today. Here is a side-by-side comparison with a photo of the current Allroad. Also being unveiled at Geneva: the...
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Muji Hiragana & Alphabet Blocks

I was putting a quick shopping list together while surfing around Muji's net store, and I was kind of blown away by the large crop of cool unpainted wood toys they have now, including all kinds of little fruits...
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Japanese Reporter Pimps Out Breastfeeding Cat

Still trying to triangulate this one to figure out who's weirder: a) the breastfeeding cat b) the child-free women who let it latch on on camera c) the female reporter who's pimping the cat out around the country d) the...
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Dutch Chair Allows Kids To Draw On Paper--Or Carpet

I think Charlotte Friis' design for a Children's Paper Chair is more a conceptual exercise than an actual product. The idea is that the paper lasts for five years, and as it dwindles, the seat gets lower at about the...
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A Report From Library Story Time

So a quick Diet Coke run turned into an hour at the library when we looked to see what the caravan of strollers was up to: Story Time. There were easily 50 kids under 2, who nearly all sat entranced...
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"Take up your sword against the tyranny of the O"

SIX BREAKFAST CEREALS ARGUE WHY THEY SHOULD REPLACE CHEERIOS AS THE PREFERRED FINGER FOOD FOR BABIES. [mcsweeney's via tmn]...
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Meanwhile, Elsewhere In The New York Times,

A small boy, 3, lives with his artsy parents, three vintage Eames rockers [with refurbished Modernica bases], and an unidentified modernist Ikea rocking horse in a corrugated steel house of his father's design in Lubbock, TX. The father's book, seven...
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NYT: Dogs A Lot Like Children For Some

According to the NY Times, the generation that created the gifted and talented kid has also created the gifted and talented dog. And while children rebel against expectations by doing drugs, joining bands, and making unflattering family-centered documentaries, dogs react...
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