Daddy Types: May 2006 Archives

May 2006 Archives

May 31, 2006

"Daddy Dear," From The Sesame Street Lyrics Archive

I don't remember this song, "Daddy Dear," from my own days on The Street--or should I say from my first days on The Street--but 10 years ago, when a Toronto mom couldn't remember the words to sing it to...
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The Long Tail Of Baby Names

When the latest Social Security Administration numbers for the top 1000 baby names came out a couple of weeks ago, dt reader Matt suggested looking at state-by-state lists of popular names, too. As he pointed out, Ava may have bumped...
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Only A Few Hours Left To Get That Discount Mountain Of Huggies From Amazon

If you like Huggies, the Amazon $99/30 deal is the kind of thing you'll like. Their promotion, which includes a $30 Amazon credit for a $99 Huggies & stuff product purchase, ends today, 5/31. Me, I'm taking a pass. For...
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My Name. Is. Tobi. Maxi-Cosi's Inexplicably New Car Seat Model

I guess living in a country that produces automobiles makes me expect models to evolve slightly year after year, with new features added and improvements made, problems fixed, that sort of thing, and then every few years, there's a big...
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No Mystery Here: Water Birth Photoset on flickr

Congratulations to Joshua and his parents, who all met face to face during Joshua's water birth in Michigan. The whole thing--or pretty much the whole thing--is presented in all its demystified glory in his parents' flickr photoset, mysticism_now. While I...
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Danish Kindergarten-in-a-Bus

No. way. This is so cool. But why do they only go to the forest every day? Couldn't they go to factories and gas stations and malls and construction sites and stuff, too? Lunch at Ikea? Buggi Bjorn kindergarten...
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May 30, 2006

Wow, The Only Thing Slate Left Off Is The Pick-up Lines

If you can get past the story of an STD surge at Florida retirement communities, the last Human Nature column in Slate before a two-month hiatus is a fertile field of pregnancy- and kid-related science findings from all over. Guess...
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This Chinese Kid Has Three Arms

But only one kidney. Doctors are still testing to see what the best options are for 2-month-old Jie-Jie, but so far, the kid's two left arms appear equally developed. Unless Bai Xiao Qiu, the shadowy Nick Bollettieri-like mastermind behind...
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ABC Fun Pads: The ABC Stands For "Avoid Bruising Coffee Tables"

The inevitable flipside of "Hey, he can stand up!" is, of course, "D'oh, he just fell down!" And given the crucial role the coffee table plays in American babies' cruising skills development, it's probably the single-most fallen-upon piece of furniture...
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It's Kids-a-Poppin' In Boston

There must be something in the mineral water in Wellesley, because according to the Boston Globe Magazine, the richies there are poppin' out babies by the Suburban-ful. Apparently, it's either a competitve thing, a "no Ivy tuition worries here, pal"...
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May 28, 2006

Once You Have Black Crib, You Never Go Back

Last summer the LA Times called a trend: "Black is a hot color for cribs," they said. So hot it burned up before it made it to Las Vegas, I guess, because I never heard jack about black. But I...
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First The Apt., Now The Crib

The NY Times has the story of Ed Tachibana and Ha Lim Lee, architects who, through a combination of DIY muscle and Ed's obsessive ebaying, craigslisting, transformed their 3BR dump into a slick, loftlike dream home, complete with a home...
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May 26, 2006

ducduc: Your The Table Is Ready, Sir

ducduc's added their new products to their website, including images of their new The Table. Some additional information on it: it's made of walnut, not just walnut stain, which is nice. I forgot to mention the storage under each sliding...
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The Kinderzeat Is Dead! Long Live The Tripp Trapp!

There was talk about this at JPMA a couple of weeks ago, but I didn't make it over to see with my own eyes. But then DT readers Nina, Andy, and Piam have all mentioned it to me, so I...
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May 25, 2006

NJ Woman Defies Blackout To Avoid Having NJ Baby

We knew we were going to have the kid in DC [where my wife's doctor was], not NYC, but we were in NYC regularly until a couple of weeks before the baby came. On the last trip, we half-joked about...
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The Latest In Jacks Baby News

DWRJax got the axe. [dt] Jack White and his model wife Karen Elson had a baby girl a couple of weeks ago. [dt] Jack Black and his recently eloped-with wife confirmed they are expecting a baby boy in early June....
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It's Not Expensive Being Green Line: Saturn VUE Hybrid

The aging little SUV from Saturn, the VUE, is getting a hybrid option for 2007, but just barely. The VUE Green Line is like a hybrid hybrid: lower-powered batteries that help the engine, but can't step in for it. This...
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Daddy Types Invites You To Stalk Its Advertisers Right To Their Websites

An Academy Awards ceremonyful of thanks to the advertisers here on Daddy Types. They inspire me with their products and their money to continue honing my craft. If you're the Stella Adler of advertisers, Daddy Types wants to your Brando...
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Block Week Continues: Vintage Hello Kitty Blocks

Thanks to a regular diet of television administered since birth, the kid already knows her alphabet [and not only has she NOT turned into a hypnotized slug, she's always asking if she can ride a skateboard over to her...
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Apparently, It's Blocks Week: Arcadia Asymmetrical Blocks

Sometimes it appears by royal decree of the Crown Prince of Norway, and sometimes it just creeps up on you. Blocks Week is the latter. Arcadia is a set 24 of asymmetrical irregularly cut, curved, arched and cutout blocks made...
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So I Met Some Celebrity Parents Recently

In my recent travels, I've had the chance to meet some new parents who also happen to be celebrities. We chatted about babies, strollers, traveling with children, the blog, etc. Very nice. Both times, I told them that now that...
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I Shall Call Him Mini-Mies. At Least Until Knoll's Lawyers Come For Me.

If Boom USA make a mistake with its knocked off versions of well-known kid's furniture designs, maybe it was ripping off people who're alive and selling the originals only 50 yards away. If you just stick to copying dead designers,...
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May 24, 2006

ICFF DT Roundup, Part Two

So where was I? Right, ICFF. ducduc appears to be expanding the brand from just "baby furniture" to "family furniture." They debuted some big kid beds, including a trundle/platform bed [the Fillmore] with a kind of cool snowboard-looking headboard, and...
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DIY Blocks, With Or Without Photos

Photojojo has a sweet video tutorial for making photo blocks. It involves gluing a 4x6 photo onto four 2x3 linoleum blocks, then sealing it with painter's gel. Super easy, and while I'm not too sure about the edibility of painter's...
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"Off To The TV We Will Go, Where We Learn Everything That We Know."

"Cuz the TV teaches us what our parents don't have time to sayyyy" In yet another confirmation of the depressingly awesome prophetic accuracy of South Park: The Movie, a mother participating in the latest Kaiser Family Foundation study on infants...
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May 23, 2006

ICFF DaddyTypes Roundup

The kid and I made an all-too-brief visit to the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in NYC yesterday. Gotta say, she was a rockstar, putting up with all my schmoozing while only slightly terrorizing the folks in their booths. Her M.O....
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Choochee Who? Netto Discusses Heirloom Book In Child Magazine

From the Many Irons In The Fire Dept, baby furniture modman David Netto has started contributing to Child Magazine. His first column is about a 1937 children's book by Naomi Averill that he got from his mom when he was...
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Apple Store, Fifth Avenue & 59th St - NO

Seriously, people, WTF is that about? I say, until Apple gets its biznazz together and gets some changing tables going, change the kid on the nearest wide, flat, open surface in between the iPods, the MacBooks, the Hi-Fi's, anywhere. [UPDATE:...
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Do You Know What An SSP Smash-Up Derby Set Is?

Then you'll be having some audio-induced flashbacks when you watch these toy commercials from the 70's. Can't say I've ever played--or even heard of--The Masterpiece Game before--that's the one where you buy the world's great art at auction for $100,000....
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May 22, 2006

BabyFirstTV: Uh-Oh, I'm Being Swayed

Look, I can't pretend I'm automatically and irrevocably opposed to babies watching television. I mean, the kid watched her first movie from my lap when she was not even 4 weeks old. [Granted, it was John Cassavetes' Shadows, and she...
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Two Family-Run Baby Food Companies, Both Alike In Ingredients

In fair Brentwood where we lay our scene... &c. &c. As I predicted last fall, this West Side of LA Story about duelling organic baby food delivery services founded by two sets of parents is only intensifying. The two companies--Bohemian...
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Boob Nazis Get LiveJournal Abuse Team All Hot & Bothered

Valleywag reports that a breastfeeding advocacy group blog on LiveJournal was told by the LJ Abuse Team that their userpic [above] was "inappropriate" and that they must discontinue it or face blog-suspension. The Boob Nazis [their name] fired back,...
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Toilet Training, Freedom, And The American Way

We've started the toilet training process, basically following Brazelton's approach. Last night my wife came across this shoutout to Brazelton in Dr. Spock [the 7th ed.], which mixes praise with a healthy dose of March of Freedom-style American Triumphalism. Guess...
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Dan Neil On The Mazda5: "Frisky," "Kooky Pleasure," "Upholstered Mailbox"

The LA Times' Dan Neil has a great review of the Mazda5, a category of car which he points out is called a "space wagon" in Japan and Europe, but which is, well, it's a minivan, people. And it's a...
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May 20, 2006

Wow. Handmade Castle Building Blocks

Surfing through Mahar Dry Goods' totally awesome selection of contemporary and vintage-inspired artistan created products, I kept wondering how I missed posting about the site when owner Robert Mahar first emailed about it two-plus months ago. But then reading his...
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Whoa. Awesome Crocheted Hightop Booties

These hightop sneaker-lookin' booties by yarn artist Jen Fishbach at Mahar Dry Goods are freakin' awesome, but they're just the tip of the hand-crocheted bootie iceberg over there. There are also cowboy boots, ice skates, socks-n-maryjanes, and socks-n-sandals [nerd alert!],...
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ICFF Rumor: DWR To Take Its Jax And Go Home??

No official word confirmation yet, but two several independent ICFF-attending sources is enough for me to pass it along believe it's true: I hear that DWR is pulling the plug on DWRjax, their kids furnishings business/collection/catalogue. After barely seven months....
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May 19, 2006

80's Music Videos On YouTube

In the middle of the night, when you're trying to coax the kid back to sleep and you're still half-asleep yourself, you will sing anything, anything that comes into your head in a search for the song that does the...
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Predikten Ur BabyGenderen? Unglaublich!

"Unglaublich!" It's one of the few words of German I picked up as a kid. I learned from the X-Men. Every once in a while, Nightcrawler [the blue one who's not Rebecca Romijn] would shout it out. It means "Unbelievable!"...
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Whoa, Nelly! Stroller Archaeology

AJ went on a vintage stroller bender at Thingamababy, digging up enough 19th and early 20th century baby gear--and one from ancient Egypt--to fill an entire Ye Olde Babies R Us. Check it out, including this editorial cartoon engraving...
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Teaching The Difference Between "Good Taste" & "Tastes Good"

The kid's been on a beautiful bender lately, calling all sorts of things "beautiful." Usually, it's the expected things that she hears [paintings, dresses, mommy]. Sometimes it's profound enough to make you scratch your head [the purple sky and skyline...
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Well, That's Remarkably Easy. Carbon-Offsetting Disposable Diapers

Let's review quickly: carbon off-setting is the recently emerged practice of elminating the net greenhouse gas emissions from a given activity or entity, often by purchasing and retiring the corresponding amount of so-called "pollution credits" on the open market...
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How Could That Kid's Father Let--Oh, Right

[via goldenfiddle] I now return you to your regularly scheduled Britney-free zone, already in progress....
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I Wouldn't Want To Be Bob Saget At The Judgment Day

My daughter doesn't realize it yet, of course, but she's very lucky. Lucky to have been born into a household where there is no desire to film shamelessly contrived scenes of scatalogical slapstick in the feeble hope of securing...
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Butterfly Ball: Catchy Tune, Trippy Cartoon, Camp/Classic DVD

So there's an early 19th century poem by William Roscoe called "The Butterfly Ball and The Grasshopper Feast." An illustrated children's book version came out in 1973, which was accompanied/followed by a legendary [if esoterically so] album of future British...
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May 18, 2006

Right, Then! I'm Uninteresting To Conservatives In The UK!

So Boy George's neighbor is named Tom Leonard, and he's a columnist for the Daily Telegraph who writes on the topic of fatherhood. A couple of weeks back, he took to explaining the problem with daddyblogs: In a nootshell, 'e...
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Climbing The Stairway To Nevaeh

I guess Strawberry Saroyan was busy. The NY Times' other resident expert on naming oddities, Jennifer 8. Lee, took a front page [?!] look at the miraculous ascendance of Nevaeh into the firmament of the Social Security Administration's top 100...
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Eric Carle: Cranky Old Man OR Communist Threat?

The kid and I were at the library the other day, so I took a glance through the whole of Eric Carle's oeuvre. Now we like us some hungry caterpillar and some busy spider like anyone else, but I have...
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Nerve.com Sks LTR, Wants To Settle Down, Have Kids

That old adage about the ones you date and the ones you marry may get reworked into "the ones you hook up with online and the ones you have kids with." At least that's what Nerve.com kingpin Rufus Griscom is...
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Tetris Shelving Is Now Available For Flatpack

Don't worry, you can custom-order the hardwood version of Tetris shelves in walnut and ash. They're still gorgeous, with a bevelled face edge, and have open backs and an 11" shelf depth. And they're still nice and expensive [if...
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May 17, 2006

Little Mac Has His Father's Nose

This McDonald's ad from India totally weirds me out. I am definitely swearing off the golden arches for me and the kid for. ever. Unless they have those cherry pies with the uncommonly flaky crusts like the ones at...
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Hey Boy, You Look Mighty Short In Them $100 Jeans

Until just the other day when I posted one damn thing about Von Dutch [the original racist pinstriping genius, not the faux white trash trucker hat sellout trendoid licensing brand his name has become], I remained dumb and happy about...
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Po Bronson Calls For Mommy Wars Truce on Mother's Day

Well, as we approach Mother's Day this year [sic, OK, so I'm behind with the posts], let's take a page from dad, author and Time columnist Po Bronson, who looks at the "mommy wars" and wonders what's all the fighting...
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A First: Brooklyn Model Townhouse Has A Nursery

What the baby boom? What pre-school crunch? If all you had to go by was them decorator showhouses that constitute the official sport on the Upper East Side, you wouldn't know a baby'd been born in NYC in a hundred...
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Slope Park Activists Stage Bosom Buddies-style Protest

"A lot has been said about Park Slope how, you know, you get trapped behind a mother with a doublewide stroller and their dog and stuff, well, you really can't blame them; what you really need to do is...
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For Cool Baby Companies, Donating To Charities Is HOT

Three's a trend, folks, so watch for this story to show up soon on the evening news. While the more industrial parts of the Baby Industrial Complex are busy fatcatting around a golf course somewhere, stuffing stock options into their...
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May 16, 2006

It's Ava vs. Sophia In SocSec Smackdown

The Social Security Administration's most popular baby names of 2005 ranking are out, and while the Bible-happy boys' list seems the same as it ever was [same as they ever was, same as it ever was, same as it--oh, sorry....
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Netto Cub-Scouting

I can still remember the sticker shock I got when I saw my first Netto Collection crib. You have to appreciate a bit that at the time we started crib shopping--late 2003, whoa, they grow up so fast-- there...
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May 15, 2006

Skip-Hop 2.0: Gifty, Plastic Stuff For Your Countertops

One interesting set of new products to show up at JPMA was from the diaper bag folks at Skip*Hop, who introduced a line of baby-task-specific molded plastic gear by designer Scott Henderson that is meant to be cool and...
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Von Dutch Children's Rocking Chair. Damn.

Clearly, I'm not on the right email lists, because I just found out about last Saturday's auction of Von Dutch art and memorabilia in LA about 15 minutes ago. Not that it would've done me any good. Forget for...
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JPMA: RTFM

One of the unanticipated lessons of last week's JPMA show: nobody reads the manuals. For anything. As I was talking to makers of everything from carseat adapters to baby carriers to infant swings to strollers to flushable diapers, I found...
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Arne Jacobsen Seven Chair-Swing Tweaked Out By Camper

Ah, Denmark, the land of beautiful modern design, AIDS charity auctions--and no product liability lawsuits. The result of this all-too-rare confluence of factors: a collection of one-of-a-kind ruminations on Arne Jacobsen's classic Series Seven Chair silhouette by designers from across...
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Vintage Stroller Dealers

For people who like this kind of thing, this is the kind of thing you'll like. Ouderwetse-Kinderwagens is Dutch for "Old-fashioned Strollers." These vintage rigs from the 30's to the 70's are either in amazing original condition, or have been...
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From The Makers of Free Willy: Pay-TV For Babies

Maybe the real reason only 26% of babies don't have TV's in their nurseries is because there hasn't been enough infant-targeted media to justify it. That, my friends, is about to change, thanks to the magnanimous spirit of News...
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It's Wall-to-Wall Hipster Parents In The Bay Area

There are enough parents in the Bay Area who a) want to dress their kids cool/in black/like themselves, b) want an Oeuf but don't want to shell out $800 for a crib, and c) tell themselves their Passat Jetta [sorry,...
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May 12, 2006

Calla High Chair: The New Fleur Down In Fleurville

"All I need is a high chair..." The Greg looked around. But, sleek high chairs are scarce, there was none to be found. "It's JPMA! I know just what they'll do!" "Their mouths will stay quiet a minute or...
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DIY Own Dutch Self: Tree Trunk Bassinet

Here's how I see it: EUR1,000 is totally the wrong price for this bassinet. If it's really carved from a giant tree trunk, I'd pay at least another 500 to have all that cartoony paint stripped off and have...
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Wild [Creative Playthings Hobby] Horses

The Creative Playthings Hobby Horse was produced in the early-to-mid 1950's by the Princeton, NJ-based toy manufacturer, and it has long been recognized* as a classic of modern design. [Interesting bit of trivia I didn't know until very recently: the...
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Missing The Belly Button Concept: The Navel Snorkel

It's good to be reminded from time to time that Holland, the nation reknowned for it's thriving contemporary design, is also the nation where 90% of the houses have kitschy lace curtains in every window. And so the home...
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Thanks To The Advertisers Who Get Our Kids Into Harvard

A big shoutout to the advertisers this week on Daddy Types, who all--now this was the buzz on the floor of the JPMA convention--who all guarantee early decision acceptance for your child at the Ivy League university of his choice...
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Reissuing The Moderno: The Rocker That Made Yrj�� Kukkapuro A Household Name

In 1960, Professor Yrj�� Kukkapuro, the Finnish designer and academic, introduced what would become one of his most famous works: the Moderno rocker. It was the centerpiece of a clean, unassuming, ergonomic, and classically Scandinavian line of chairs that were...
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May 11, 2006

Whoa. Unidentified Red Sox Fan Drives...A Gecko??

I have to admit, on the rare occasions when I see a Gecko in the wild, its clean, simple lines and understated, old-school color scheme really stands apart from the pack. I have to say, I like it. And...
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With A Booth Sporting Several Pieces Of Flair, It's Boon Time at JPMA

The little frog has grown into a great big prince of a baby gear company. the parent-company Boon showed up at JPMA last year with a single product, the Frog Pod, which scooped up the Innovation Award. This year,...
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Wha Wha WhAA? There's A Sale At Netto's!

Looks like Netto Collection's having a sample sale. I have no idea what is there, but I do know that it's already been going for four hours. Furniture and accessories are discounted 40 to 75% off. Off of one MILLION...
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JPMAWatch: Stroll-Smart Hands-Free Jogging Stroller Adaptor

When I saw this in the New Products pen at JPMA, it freaked me out. Why would you lash yourself to a stroller with that thing, I thought. And thus, I unwittingly outed myself to the world as a non-jogging...
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Spinny Cabinet

In 1970, Joe Colombo introduced the plastastic trolley called the Boby. It's perfect for your Ice Storm-themed nursery, and not just because it doesn't conduct electricity. [if you don't know what that means, see the movie or read the...
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What's A Baby Flea Called?

Sunny Bebop Balzary. Who knew? Sure are cute, though. Again, who knew? [via celebrity baby blog] Related: Flea used to own this multi-colored Mercedes [hooptyrides]...
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Apparently They Can Give Them Away. To Women.

You have until May 22nd to register for Savvy Mommy's giveaway of a Stokke Xplory. Whether you enter the contest in your baby momma's name or using one of your female personas on AOL is totally up to you. Because...
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How About Doing What's Best?

Sometimes Mr. Robertson talks mothers out of enrolling a child at all. "We'll call them with a spot that's opened up and they can't do it because every single day they have two or three things. I tell them, 'I...
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May 10, 2006

More JPMA Swag: ducduc & Skip*hop

From the posting so far, all I did at JPMA was go around and mooch stuff off of people who might prefer that I write favorable things about their company and their product. The only way I can prove...
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Tiny Eyes: Now You Know Why They Put Muppets On Pampers

Created by a group of visual development researchers, Tiny Eyes not only shows what the world looks like from a newborn's point of view, it also allows you to transform your own photos into babyview using the Tiny Eyes...
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May 9, 2006

I Went To JPMA, And All I Got...

...well, I got a bit more than this, but this standard-issue tote bag [which turned out to be handy for filling with swag and press kits] was also a promotion for some of the baby mags that so assiduously...
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All Genki Hats Come In Child & Baby Sizes, Too. Including The Evil Panda Hat.

Now that it's been proved that pandas are evil, and the only reason we love them so is because we've been manipulated by their publicists, shouldn't you rethink your previous decision not to buy your kid a custom, hand-sewn...
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"This is the dark side of pandas..."

And just in time for Mother's Day. In a show of fascinating science reporting, zinger quotes, and spectacular deployment of literary devices, Natalie Angier writes in the NY Times about how mothers in the animal kingdom can turn out to...
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From De Islands: De Etymology Of "Baby Daddy"

The terms "baby mama" and "baby daddy," it turns out, originated in Jamaica in the 1960's and migrated to the US via song lyrics. Once they were popularized in hip hop lyrics in the late 90's, the terms lost most...
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This Pixellated Baby Sweater Totally Outgeeks Me

On Collision Detection, Clive tells the story of a sweater his friend knitted for his newborn son. As they were discussing what design to put on it, he remembered "Game of Life," an early 80's computer game in which pixellated...
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As NOT Featured At JPMA: The Cardboard Box Stroller

While everyone in the Baby Industrial Complex is chatting each other up in Orlando, talking in funny strollerspeak about the smoothness of "the fold," this stroller is making the rounds of the blogworld. It's a combination of a computer...
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Adam Sandler & Mark-Paul Gosselaar Pull A Kobe & Shaq

Never mind that they haven't done a project together before; Adam Sandler and Mark-Paul Gosselaar are the Big Daddies of Comedy in our hearts. And they both became fathers to baby girls Sunday, which is so funny, because I was...
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Just Flew In From JPMA, And Boy Are My Arms Tired

All the flushable diapers and organic crib sheets in the world will never be able to make up for the sheer amount of paper waste produced for a trade show. I have easily 25 lbs of press kits and news...
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May 8, 2006

Crazy Man Prompts Bill Banning Private Ultrasound Sales In CA

So apparently some looney tunes in Hollywood bought an ultrasound machine for his house so he could check out the ol' fetus any time he wanted, and now some California state legislature has introduced a law that would restrict ultrasound...
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May 6, 2006

Looking At Boobs' Jobs

Are they bouncing, bikini-filling orbs of sensual wonder, embodiments of womens' self-esteem and mens' attraction? Or are they nurturing sources of live-giving milk, the source of mother-infant bonding over the millennia? Turns out you may have to choose. Because according...
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May 5, 2006

Mouse Party: Disney Kicks It Pre-Skool

Very interesting. It's a veritable boomtown in the preschool video and tv market these days, what with all the Baby Einstein, Brainy Baby educational schmeducational stuff, and the new Sesame Beginnings DVD's, and a host of independently produced options which...
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North Cabana, The Maritime Hotel, W 17th St & Ninth Avenue - NO

If your party's mostly at the bar, though, you could go to the giant banquette along the west wall, or in the south corner under the tree planter....
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"Me no monster. Me OK guy. Me OK guy who eat cookies."

COOKIE MONSTER SEARCHES DEEP WITHIN HIMSELF AND ASKS: IS ME REALLY MONSTER? [mcsweeney's]...
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May 4, 2006

OK, I Am Totally Cool With Frilly Pink Outfits. This Time

The NYT has a story and an audio slide show about a ballet class in Queens for little girls with cerebral palsy. It was founded a few years ago by Joann Ferrara, a physical therapist with Associated Therapies, who paired...
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Benadryl As A Jetway Drug?

The Wall Street Journal has an article today about some parents' "guilty secret": sedating their kids to get through a long flight. For the kid's first trip to Japan when she was just five months old, she actually slept like...
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Finally, Someone Does Some Decent Strollerstalking

Well it's about damn time. Except for that one unpleasant incident involving Geraldo Rivera [which we all agreed never to talk about, right? Right?? So whatr'ya doing clicking on this link, then?!], none of those lazy-ass Gawker Stalkers could be...
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Congratulations To Jack White For Daughter, Consistency

Jack White, of the White Stripes Whites, and his wife Karen Elson had their daughter. And they named her Scarlett. See, it had to be a red name? But Ruby was never an option? because Jack used to date Renee...
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That Stainless Steel & Plexiglass Bassinet From The Hospital

If your kid is born pretty much by the book, and you're in a hospital in the US, chances are he's going to spend most of his time in one of these: a sweet, sweet molded plexiglass bassinet that rides...
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May 3, 2006

Lovely, Who's The Father? Could It Be...Satan??

I don't know about you, but for all my eschatological questions, I turn to the Biblical translation historians at Gawker Media's tabloid news site, Sploid.com. That's where we learn that some pregnant Christian ladies are worried about having their babies...
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Will You Be At JPMA? Email Me.

I'm going to take a quick trip to the JPMA (Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association) convention this weekend/next week, strictly business, you understand. [As a one-time Disney suit, this will actually be my first trip to Orlando since escaping The Mouse's...
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Lawsuit: Videos Make Babies Neither Brainy Nor Einstein

A group with a lot of work ahead of it, The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, has filed a complaint with the FTC which seeks to stop Baby Einstein and Brainy Baby from making any actual educational or developmental claims...
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May 2, 2006

A. Crewcuts - J. Crew For Kids

Asked and answered, at least for people with 2-year-olds and a penchant for preppy clones. A couple of months back, DT reader Christy sent in a heads up on J. Crew's new range of clothing for kids ages 2-8. It...
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Rich Dick

Just goes to show, money can't buy class. Here's a blind item that Gawker pulled from today's NY Post:Which billionaire buyout buccaneer called his 3-year-old son to the dinner table the other night and had him repeat to the guests...
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Amazon: Have A Heaping Helping Of Huggies! & Amazon Money!

Hah, it only took me a year to figure out that, with one $99/30 diaper promotion ending [7th Gen], Amazon might be launching a new one around the first of the month. But those sly marketing execs don't miss a...
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Men Besides Tony Randall Have Biological Clock After All. [And He's Dead.]

After so many centuries living next to the French, you'd figure the British would have managed to deal with their sense of inadequacy in the wooing and babymaking department, but nooo. A study into the causes of the UK's dropping...
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Q. Holy Moley, Where Are The Decent Kids Clothes At??

I ran some stuff back to Neiman Marcus to exchange sizes last night--one of the grandmothers had been in town and had showered generous gifts on the child, who promptly had a meltdown that prevented any trying on in the...
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Advertisers So Cute, You Just Want To Eat Them Up

So far, I'm liking the idea of featuring only a couple of advertisers at a time on Daddy Types, especially when they're SO CUTE. Let me pinch the rosy cheeks of the site's advertisers this week: Javis Davis, whose exclusive...
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PlaySam iCar: An "Homage To Apple"

How'd I miss this? The sweet Streamliner car from PlaySam was released in a special edition called the iCar, a white/silver combination that's meant as "an homage to..." to Apple, of course. Given the presence of the now-discontinued iPod...
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May 1, 2006

If Only There Were A Word For Parents Who Shop At YoyaMart...

Here's an excerpt from this week's "Ask A Clerk" column in NY Magazine, which was an interview with one of the folks from the sweet West Village kids store YoyaMart. The parts I think were inexplicably edited out are in...
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Double Teaming In The Delivery Room: Shaq & Kobe Both Get Kids On Monday

Kobe Bryant sank the winning shot for the Lakers Sunday, then his wife gave birth to their second daughter Monday. [Which means he's going to miss game 5 of the playoffs Tuesday in Phoenix. Apparently, the only jobs that involve...
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"Custom Cakes. Prices Start At $350."

If you thought your competitive elaborate artcake-buying days were over once you got through your wedding, think again, my friend. At least if you're in the Bay Area. Because the children's section on cake artist [really, there's no other...
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