Daddy Types: September 2006 Archives

September 2006 Archives

September 30, 2006

Octonauts: Hello, Kirky!

I'm givin' her all she's got, Captain, but the nerd flux inhibitor's at a hundred and ten percent! I don't know how long I canna hold'er together! While it appears as a deceptively cute children's book, possibly spun off...
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Jon Stewart On A Onesie

[02/08 update: check the comments here; unfortunately, a number of people over an extended period of time have complained about problems or delays completing their orders from Reckon. Lead time on orders not-in-stock have stated leadtimes of up to 3...
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Taro Gomi Coloring Books Are Cool, Massive

Not content with writing the definitive children's book on defecation [Everybody Poops], illustrator Taro Gomi has set out to conquer those stretches of time between bathroom visits, too. He did these giant coloring/activity books which are as thick as phone...
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September 29, 2006

Look! It's Bugfoot! Mysterious Bugaboo With Bears

A DT reader with a sharp eye and a blurry phonecam [stop fighting it, buddy, just get the upgrade] sent in this photo of a Bugaboo covered in bears:...at least they looked like bears. I was in a cab...
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Worlds Collide: Mister Rogers Playing Donkey Kong

Just what it sounds like. Apparently, there's this guy--he's a carpenter, so he has this hammer--who's trying to save this girl? Mister Rogers Playing Donkey Kong [youtube via kotaku]...
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Ooh Ooh More From Ooba: A Crib, A Playtable, A Toy Box

And the winner of the damn finest looking crib in town award goes to...Ooba. Holy smokes, but the new Ooba Nest Crib, which just became available for pre-order today [with delivery starting in mid-November], is sweet. A single, molded...
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ABC Kids: Orbit Stroller Video-palooza

We're just hitting the road, but I wanted to point you to Coochicoo's video preview of the Orbit stroller from ABC Kids Expo. Orbit was out in in-production force at ABC, with a sweet, rich brown mocha-colored blend of products...
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Suffer The Little Children

Director Todd Fields' new film, Little Children, stars Kate Winslet as a young mom and Patrick Wilson as an at-home dad in a Massachusetts suburb. The film, an adaptation of a novel by Tom Perrota, examines their various unhappinesses...
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September 28, 2006

"Invisible Baby" By Ze Frank

It's apparently not the normal babies that freak Ze Frank out at street fairs: it's the invisible ones. Ze Frank's The Show [zefank.com]...
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It's So Hard To Find Good Help These Days

You think the nanny slipping the kid a Happy Meal's a problem? Try coming home and finding out your sitter practically starved your kid instead. I mean, is it really so hard to make Oreo waffles? Memo to Nanny: No...
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Lilli Bule: Le Blog/Boutique, C'est Moi

Lilli Bule is a really cool-looking [and judging from their press clippings, very plugged in] children's clothing store in BFParis [the 11th] that specializes in independent designers and limited-run and unique clothes. It's also a blog, a blog with the...
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Put Balouga On Your Next Paris Kid-shopping Trip

Balouga is a new, sweet-looking gallery of children's design, from the small to the major, which just got added to my shortlist for our next visit to Paris. I mean, just look at that wall of chairs hanging there,...
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September 27, 2006

This Week In Precocious Children News

4-year old sure plays a mean pinball set of drums. [youtube via eric] 3-year old London boy buy-it-now!s a pink car on eBay. Had it been a less Barbie shade of pink, his dad wouldn't have minded. [chi sun-times...
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Gastroschisis And Omphalocele Turn Out To Be Quite Different

The death of Rev. Run's daughter soon after her delivery by C-section last week might tee up debates somewhere about reality television and what point you stop the cameras--and about the ethics of hyping a show around a celebrity pregnancy...
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Anna Nicole Has Two Baby Daddies

And one of them is her lawyer. The other is the friend-with-benefits who was told early on that he was the father. This important news brought to you courtesy of Larry King and Gawker. I suspect this will be the...
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Scientists To Dads: Pick The Right Week To Give Up Snorting Paint Thinner

Researchers in the Netherlands and Canada found that men who were regularly exposed to airborne paint solvents--they studied painters--in the three months before their partners got pregnant were six times more likely to have a kid with a congenital malformation...
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September 26, 2006

VW's Cross Golf Will Not Cross Atlantic

Does it dull the pain to see that Ford's not alone in depriving the US market of its more interesting and promising-looking family-savvy cars? Does it help knowing that the Mercedes B-Class made it as far as Windsor, but not...
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Damn! That Is One Tasty Baby Toupee

Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, provides a sweet lid to the weak through the valley of hairlessness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the savior of bald children. And I...
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News From The Stroller Wars: Skirmish Breaks Out At Apartment Therapy

There's a survey--just a simple question, what could be the harm in that?--at Apartment Therapy about which stroller Maxwell--the Apartment Therapist himself--and his due-soon wife should get for their NYC apartment lifestyle. For the "first ride" category where, clearly, a...
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Any Name You Want, As Long As It's Brianna

You Jasons out there won't understand--heck, we Gregs don't grasp the concept, either--but there is a school of baby naming thought that says the totality of your child's identity, self-esteem, confidence, positive outlook on the world--basically, her entire future--depends...
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This Week In Killer Teddy Bear News

Remember, kids, "RELEASE OF ANY TEDDY BEARS into fish hatchery water IS NOT PERMITTED." [emphasis in the original] Teddy Bear Massacres Fish [boingboing]...
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My Little Car Seat Pony: Casey And His Friends

I naively went to ABC Kids Expo execting to stumble across row after row of baby gear innovations. But when I got there, all anyone could talk about was The Zaky. These plush toys that attach to your kid's...
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NY Mag Gets The Nanny-Spying Money Quote

Congratulations [sic] to the nanny narc-ing blog for helping turn New York Magazine onto the whole Babysitter Surveillance Industrial Complex this week. And they get Rhyder McClure [real name], the founder of the New York Nanny Cam Company [installation: $1200],...
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P&T Update: Survival Of The Hippest?

Uh, yeah, so I thought I'd dig around a bit to see what the "Phil & Teds: Survival of the Hippest" things were I saw in Las Vegas and, well--it's currently on the splash page of the P&T site....
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Only Gay Dads In The Village Post Family Picture Online

I felt bad that I wasn't coming across many things to post for the 'gay dads' category lately, but now I realize it was because I wasn't surfing Gaydar, the British gay personals site. The Daily Mail was, though,...
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Nice Felterhosen: Mod Baby Swing From Austria

I'm trying to remember which magazine I saw these heavy felt baby swings from Austrian design firm Mohr Polster in; It was either in the launch issue of Cookie or that issue of Dwell where the entire editorial staff...
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September 25, 2006

Daddy, Where Do Diaper Genie II's Come From?

Another interesting industry tidbit that came to my attention from K+J: Congratulations go to Funny Handel, GmbH, the German distributor of the Angelcare Captiva diaper disposal system, which was named a finalist in the 2006 Innovation Awards, World of...
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Wingbo & Babybo: Like-a-Skateboards For Babies

he's saying "simply ingenious," btw I feel your pain--really, I do--but I've usually got next-to-nothing to tell you about where to find non-heinous-looking swings and exersaucer-like playgear. No matter how much bacon they ply me with, I have to say...
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The Bloom Bloom Room: More Stroller-vation From The Far East

Here's a find from the Kind+Jugend expo: Did someone mention high-design high chairs? A new company called Bloom introduced some rather sleek-looking designs at K+J last week, including the Fresco--a European take on hot-in-Asia baby chairs from the likes...
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Hmm. Peeling The Phil & Teds Apple

As DT reader Throkky pointed out, this new/coming soon product from Phil & Teds, the Latte Shaker, looks like it's actually not new, at all. The patented Umix Travel Bottle [above left, er, I mean, right] has been around...
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ABC Report: Phil & Teds & Steve & Jobs

It was evident at JPMA, and again at ABC Kids: in two short years, Phil & Teds is really &ing up their brand presence and their offerings. I first heard of Phil & Teds when I walked into a...
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Bootleg Ballet Video

The kid's been on a ballet kick [sic] lately. However they emerge, it's interesting how gender coded interests are probably reinforced and encouraged by parents almost without thinking. Would she stay as interested in ballet if we didn't respond so...
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Art Collecting For Babies

I considered not posting about the NYT's Style section article on collecting contemporary art for kids. Not because I feel really implicated in it--though I do--but because to someone who already's hooked on collecting art, it just seems so normal....
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Mutsy: All That And A High Chair, Too

I still have posts from the ABC Kids Expo and there's already big news stacking up from Kind + Jugend in Cologne, the sehrgrossekidgearfair so big it makes Las Vegas look like Cactus Pete's. I think I'm just gonna push...
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September 24, 2006

Bamboo Fiber Diapers, People. Can You Get Any Greener?

I hear from the hemp folks that cotton is an extremely resource-intensive crop to grow. Organic cotton's better, I'm sure, but I really have no idea. It's all angels on the head of a pin to me, the guy who...
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Lacoste Messenger Bag Lacks Only A Lacoste Changing Pad

It's "raid theapt day" here at Daddy Types. This sweet-looking Lacoste canvas messenger bag would make a decent, adaptable diaper/gear bag for any one as-is. If only it came with a matching Lacoste changing pad, and maybe a waterproof-lined...
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Brio's New Target Market [Hint: Starts With Gr-, Ends With -ups]

Indulge me a bit of MBA geekdom, but ever since that high chair turned up, I was kind of intrigued why Brio, which has been known for over 100 years primarily as a wooden toy company--and especially as a...
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Studley Friend Finds Jesus In Ultrasound

If I'm non-plussed by the sighting of Jesus in a Studley, Warwickshire couple's ultrasound image, it's partly because Jesus is one of the most popular Spanish boy's names out there, so technically, ultrasounds with a Jesus in them happen...
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Who Knew? You Can Hire A Potty Training Coach

To New York Magazine's credit, they seem to recognize at least some of the insanity behind their "It'll cost you $4 million to totally outsource your kid" article last week. [I mean come on, $1.8mm is for 14 hr/day on-call...
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All Aboard! The Brio Colour Furniture's Here

A few weeks back, we got the first hints of the Swedish toymaker BRIO's foray into modern children's furniture. Their molded wood-and-foam Grow High Chair has a bit of the Eames and a bit of the Verner Panton going...
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September 23, 2006

This Week In Dangerous Cartoon Vegetables

More news from the front in the global war on cartoon vegetables, who threaten our children and our American Way of Life: Spinach: The Other Deadly Leaf Even though his spinach grower, Boskovich Farms, is in as-yet e.coli-free Ventura...
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Have You Drooled Over A Ford Lately? Mondeo Wagon Concept

Sometimes I ask myself why I even bother posting about sweet, sweet family-compatible cars that I will never be able to buy here. [*cough* Mercedes B-Class, *cough cough*] But then I realize how small my problems are in the grand...
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September 22, 2006

Warning Labels You Won't See

The latest issue of Make Magazine features some great warning labels that you probably won't be seeing on any animatronic or injection-molded plastic toys anytime soon. Danger: Early Brand Exposure The maker of this toy is trying to create a...
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The Times Square, They Are A-Changing: Uproar Over Slightly Visible Breast

People have such short memories. Time was when the whole economy of Times Square centered on catching a glimpse of a breast in some "out of the way" place. Now, a mom from Brooklyn is claiming Toys R Us employees...
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Q: Fixing Bugaboo Foam?

A DT reader just emailed in:Thought i would try your opinion on options for repairing the foam handle on our bugaboo. while shoving the stroller into the back of the car, the foam handle was torn. add to that the...
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That IS A Good Idea, Honey, And It'd Probably Work For Any Name But "Sophie"

I know it's only for stylish moms, but issocuuute! From Cookie's My First Blog (i.e., a blog by a toddler): "I signed all my toys and books with my name Sophie so no one takes them."...
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Freak Show's Primi Probably Not Appearing On The View, At KB Toys

Though our country may be the poorer for it, something tells me that Primi, the premature baby in the rolling incubator, whose superpower is pinpoint projectile vomiting, will not be this year's Tickle Me, Elmo sensation come Christmas time....
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September 21, 2006

Bubble

Just came across this quote from artist Jason Rhoades. It didn't register with me at all when I first read it two years ago, but since he passed away--survived by his wife and 3-yo daughter--it just really struck me....
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Hello Kitty Nutcracker At Hello Kitty Theme Park

Though we were tantalizingly close last summer, we never did make it over to Sanrio Puroland, the giant indoor Hello Kitty theme park which sits [past the Babies R Us, past the Costco...] on the western outskirts of Tokyo. It...
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The Argington Catalogue, AKA The Connecticutter Magazine

While all the other kids' noses are buried in their New Yorkers, for the last week, my kid's favorite book has been a piece of swag from Las Vegas: the new Argington catalogue. Near as I can tell, the...
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Unidentified Local Paper Towel Spokesman Drives A Bugaboo

[image: splashnews via trent] In completely unrelated news, I have received reports that a certain unidentified Cheetos spokeswoman has actually purchased a Bugaboo at Fred Segal. So even though it's unlikely, brace yourself for photos of her unidentified backup...
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The Diaper Bag Tactical Patch: Removable For Those Days When You're Feeling... Not So Tactical

I never would have thought to solve my unmanly diaper bag problem by accessorizing with a patch. I would've bought a different diaper bag. But I have to admit, it kinda works. Tactical Diaper Bag Patches, S or M,...
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With This Superman Laptop, You Will Never Be Alone, Kal-El

Your name is Kal-El. You have great powers, only some of which you have as yet discovered. You need some educational aids. All the math, memory, logic and spelling games of your home planet Krypton, all 30 of them,...
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September 20, 2006

Is Gawker Pregnant Or Something? Sheesh

Three baby-related posts in one day? It looks like someone at Gawker is trying to break into the $1,860-and-growing baby blooging market: A positively gushing report on the re-launch of Cookie Magazine's website [cookiemag.com] A toddler reading The New Yorker...
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Ultimately, We Have China To Thank For The Baby Bling Stroller

two things before I get to this, the most eye-popping ABC [Actually By China] strollers: 1) I really regret ordering my Moo MiniCards before I dropped this photo into the daddytypes flickr photo collection, and 2) An obligatory bow to...
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Alright, Alright, Croc Hunter's Daughter Made Me Cry

I guess it's good to remember that most kids would love to have a clown for a father. At least until they go to high school. The kids, I mean, not the clowns. And being named after the dog doesn't...
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"You Wanna Make $14 $1,860 The Hard Way?"

DT reader Helena asked if this craigslist posting was me. Until my new underground software arrives in the mail, I confess, it is not. But I am definitely thinking about registering the domain name, bloogingbaby.com right. now.Hidden Secrets To Earning...
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This Is How We Roll: In Chinese Strollers

Bugaboos are Dutch, Maclarens are British [or, in the case of the Starck line, Franglais], Gracos are, um, American. But with a few exceptions like Stokke, whose strollers are apparently made in Norway by melting down new Audi A8's, no...
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September 19, 2006

While Marlin Waits In The River, Marcus Wrestles The Squirming Baby In The Minivan

Marcus Melnick's wife wouldn't let him wear his favorite 17-pocket vest on safari to Jamaica because "it made him look like a tourist." But that all changed when he realized it could also function as a masculine diaper bag...
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FLASH: Everyone Who Should Has Now Spawned...

...And we've started on the next batch. At least that's the message I got when I read that Vice Magazine co-founder and skank-in-chief Gavin McInnes and his wife have had a lovely, be-goggled baby girl. Congratulations and welcome to Sophie...
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Papa Don't Lynch: I Wanna Keep Mein Kampf

Yeow. When they found out their 19-yo daughter's baby daddy is black, the Nicholas Kampfs tied her up and threw her into the car, so they could drive her to New York. Because I guess it's easier to get a...
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Moo Flickr MiniCards: I Just Made New DT Cards With These

Oy, I wish I would have known about this before Las Vegas. When I first whipped up some business cards [and I use the term "business" lightly] before attending the JPMA Convention in the spring, I tried to make...
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TMX Puts The "Eh" In Elmo

Ten years, and this is all they can come up with? A doll that still only does one thing: waves his arm and falls on the ground? Except for the addition of an off switch, I can't see how this...
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Pregnant Chicks Now Selling Cars, Beer*

Beer Ads* in Brazil, car show booth babes in Spain. Can boxing ring girls be far behind? It's Official. Hot Pregnant Women to Replace Stupid Men In Ads [adrants via gawker, who has more images] Seat Altea: The Family Sports...
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Sweet "My Sweet Dog" Pulltoy By Yoshitomo Nara

Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara is well known for his paintings of slightly malevolent-looking children. Possibly evil, usually cute, definitely expensive. One of his other recurring themes, though, is puppies. Non-evil puppies. It's not a stretch at all, then, to...
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Secrets Of The Burp Catcher

No secret, actually, it makes sense as soon as you see it. The Burp Catcher is a burping cloth with a folded pocket on the bottom, which catches burps. Now you can get all Beavis & Butthead about it...
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September 18, 2006

Ummm, Margaret Cho Is On Sesame Street On Sprout??

I guess Melanie Martinez's problem wasn't that she made a sex joke seven years ago; it's just that she wasn't famous. Completely unrelated: Cho's routine about Ass-Master. [youtube, you might want headphones at work]...
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You'll Know It By Its Giant Advertisers: Nickelodeon Launches ParentsConnect.com

Who'da thought? Nickelodeon not only bought GoCityKids.com last winter [$1 million, if you're keeping score at home], they've launched what the NY Times all but calls a MySpace For Parents, but what the rest of us might call a hosted...
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Argington Rocks Casbah With Sahara Crib/Delphi Changing Table Combo

I've still got tons of stuff to post from the ABC Kids Expo, including this stunning, new crib/changing table combo from Argington. These Brooklynites have been on a roll lately, cranking out some really great designs, with solid quality,...
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September 17, 2006

Spectacular Brainy Onesies From Reckon

TMX Elmo #1 Currently $2,550 On eBay

The first TMX Elmo is being autographed and sold on eBay. It is signed accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by muppeteer Kevin Clash and Mattel CEO Neil Friedman, and it is being auctioned off in co-operation with "The...
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Ultrasound Makes Indian Female Infanticide So Much Easier

Not a story for the faint of heart, this Reuters report on a Punjabi female fetus abortion clinic running under the guise of a maternity hospital is written in the rather sensationalistic style of the Indian newspapers. The takeaway, though,...
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Morgan & Milo Help You Out In A Tough Kid's Shoe World

Honestly, I had no idea how hard it was to find decent shoes for the kid. It's easy to find cheap shoes, ugly shoes, expensive shoes, and ridiculous shoes, but decent, good-looking, not-exorbitant everyday shoes? Uh-uh. You know, I'd...
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How A Kid Can Change Your Life, By Alain de Botton

After How Proust Can Change Your Life, philosopher Alain de Botton's books got a little too precious for me [out of the frying pan, into the fire, I suppose]. But I'll still check in to see what he's up to....
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Wal-Mart Milk: Organic Enough For Ya? Then What Is?

They should call it the New York Timely. There's a very interesting article about Wal-Mart's big push to sell organic products, including milk, and the ensuing debate over just how "organic" food is when it's produced on a near-industrial...
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September 16, 2006

Ouch, That Hurts

Little did I know that while Metrodad, Laid-off Dad and I were pounding'em back, our kids were off somewhere trading notes, too. The last few weeks, the kid's been giving me the Heisman stiff-arm. A lot. Whenever my wife's around,...
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See Something? Say Blog Something!

And so we come full circle in the whorl of surveillance-media-consumer-parenting society. I Saw Your Nanny [isawyournanny.blogspot.com] wants you to send in your sightings of inappropriate nanny behavior, and "if you are able to capture a photograph of the nanny...
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Legwarmers Are Back

I posted this picture from Gwen Stefani's post-fashion-show photo-op because the kid is staring down the barrel of the lens like a weary pro. And yet, I suspect that's not where most peoples' gaze is directed. What, I meant...
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Anonymous Celebrity Parent Advice, #3

DT: As a consumer in a celebrity-focused culture, I find it interesting, but as a parent, I have to say, it's really hard to see; I mean, parenting's hard enough if there's not paparazzi staked out in front of your...
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September 15, 2006

That's Almost A 15-lb Baby Right There

Great name, Stephon Hendrix Louis-Jean. GIANT baby, 14 lbs 13 oz. No hospital diapers fit; he's already in 6mo clothes. When added with the siblings' respective birthweights--9 lbs, 8.5 lbs x 2, 12 lbs--Mrs. Louis-Jean has carried herself 53 lbs...
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The Endur Power Of Veronica The Hippo

When noted steel manufacturer and antique porcelain collector Richard Cohen was in first grade in Manhattan, he was very taken by Veronica, a 1961 book by the Swiss artist Roger Duvoisin about a hippo seeking to make a name...
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Obviously, Throw Out Your Spinach

And to think that just a week or two ago, I was thisclose to writing about the sheer saladic joy I found during the family vacation when my sister introduced us--and by us, I mean 17 members of my family...
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Advertisers Are The Nomi To Daddy Types' Zack

What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but the love that Daddy Types' advertisers feel for you, the shopping, parenting readers? That stuff ships all over. Here's a big shoutout to: EliteCarSeats.com, whose legendary once-a-year Britax sale starts today,...
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Manipulate Me, Elmo! Mattel Press Release Reveals How Christmas Sausage Is Made

Are you ready for your child to form a deep, emotional attachment to a plush doll that's currently known only to the President of Mattel Brands and its subsidiary, Fisher-Price? X-cellent. Because that's just what is being planned by said...
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[Your College] 101: My First Indoctrinating Board Book

These university-specific boardbooks would make the perfect gift for parents who don't want to put any pressure whatsoever on their new child and his future prospects. Because really, you'd love him just as much if he decided to skip...
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Brooklyn: Our Own Magic Kingdom

Just like Disney World before it, Brooklyn is divided into different "neighborhoods," each with its own, unique theme. Graphic Evidence Park Slope & Gowanus are Different [curbed]...
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Attention Equinox Members

The afternoon nap has now been moved, in two equal parts, to 9PM and 8AM. Please plan your workouts accordingly. Thank you....
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September 14, 2006

ABC Kids Report: Nurseryworks Keeps On Truckin' With Sweet, New Miracle Cribs

The folks at Nurseryworks have been busy, and at ABC Kids Expo, they introduced two new cribs to bracket their existing offering: one's cheap reasonable, and one's really expensive yeah, it's expensive, but it's also a modular miracle. Both cribs...
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Woz's House Has Cave, Murals For The Kids

More news from the Stuff I Won't Be Buying Dept.: Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak's house in Los Gatos, CA, was bought by some developers who did some extensive remodelling. But they left most of Woz's additions for his kids intact....
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Fine, I'll Post Them. Spectacular Creative Playthings Wooden Family By Antonio Vitali

As I've come clean before, sometimes I like to post great kid-related stuff for sale on eBay--and sometimes, I like to post some great kid-related stuff after I've scooped it up for myself. For a couple of days now,...
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We Recently Switched To Organic Milk. You?

I confess, the main reason we haven't given the kid organic milk all the time was my own laziness. If I bought milk, it was usually at CVS, which is a block closer than the grocery store. The 2x cost...
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September 13, 2006

Ferrari Car Seats? Che Fai? Che Pensi?

The first booth I stopped into after arriving at ABC Kids Sunday morning was Recaro, who have an increasingly prominent and impressive line of sleek, high performance car seats, as befits their racing and sports car reputation. [But more...
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Pissed On, And Pissed

It's a good thing I got back from Las Vegas when I did; turns out there are too many wet pairs of underpants around the house for one parent to handle easily by herself. The kid's in a state we...
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The Tinkle Tube: "Honestly, It's Not Mine!"

In other countries, when a boy suddenly needs to pee in front of a Lamborghini, parents just have to grab whatever container is at hand. In the US, however, we're fortunate enough to have available The Tinkle Tube, from...
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Rock Star Baby's iPod Canopy Sets Off Strollerazzi Frenzy

On the first day of ABC Kids, Rock Star Baby, the stroller company fronted by Bon Jovi drummer Tico Torres, and backed by German stroller giant Hauck, had a tantalizing tip: an officially licensed iPod stroller, complete with a...
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Evenflo ExerSaucer TripleFun w/Everything On It, Plus Bacon

Bacon is good, but bacon you didn't have to cook is even better. The fine folks of Evenflo hosted a breakfast at ABC Kids to introduce the media to just such a pile of bacon--and to get a little...
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Netto's Netto, Except They Call It Le Netto

At ABC Kid's Expo, the center of the convention hall is full of smaller booths, while the walled fortresses of the Baby Industrial Complex giants ring the perimeter. And if a design proves itself by selling for several years...
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Holly Hobbie, Teen Mom

Big news for the 2006 Holiday licensing season:In the new Holly Hobbie & Friends series, Holly herself is the great-granddaughter of the "original" Holly Hobbie and feels a deep sense of connection to her personality, creativity and warmth. Holly...
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September 12, 2006

Das Ist Ein Sweet Sweet Schaukelwagen: 1950 Plywood Rocking Car

While he's mostly known for his cantilevered Bauhaus chair, Dutch designer Mart Stam sometimes scores another mention--at least in design auction catalogues. At least one product resulting from a "toy design seminar" he held in Dresden--the Schaukelwagen by Hans...
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Time Warner Sells Out; Token Dadblogger Keeps It Real

Gawker has the all-employee email announcement that Time, Inc. is selling off a bunch of their "niche" magazine titles, and by "niche," they mean magazines with a rate base of 2.2 million or less:The Parenting Group is also for sale....
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Mod Nursery Showcase Showdown, Live On ebay 9/16

If you're teetering on the edge of a swingin' 60's mod nursery--and really, these days, who isn't?--you may want to pre-register for some live auctioning, clear your calendar Saturday, and cash in that IRA. eBay's the one-stop shop for...
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Baby Gear At The Ferrari Store [sic] At Wynn Las Vegas

Last night I went to Wynn Las Vegas to meet some folks after dinner. How classy [sic] is Wynn? Well, there's a Ferrari Store--not just a showroom, a store--full of Ferrari logo merchandise. Almost all of it is available...
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ABC Kids Expo: Se Habla Barney

I'm starting to upload photos to flickr from the ABC Kids Expo in Las Vegas, including this picture of what does not, unfortunately, stay in Las Vegas: a giant wall of Spanish-laced Barney merchandise for the Hispanic market. Daddytypes-tagged...
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September 11, 2006

Finally A "Scoop." Quinny & Maxi-Cosi Are Coming To The US In 2007

As befits a leader of the Baby Industrial Complex, the Dorel booth here is one of the old-school, enclosed, "do you have an appointment?" variety, not the wide open, "PLEASE PLEASE look at my little invention and help me pay...
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September 10, 2006

We're No. 2! We're No. 2! USA! USA! USA!

FLASH: In a stunning upset this morning here in Las Vegas, the USA was eliminated [sic] in the first round of the Potty Training Video World Cup, a sidebar event at the ABC Kids Expo. The hopes of the US...
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September 9, 2006

Judd Is In The Air: Swiss Nursery Furniture From Zewi & Bebe Jou

This line of nursery furniture from the Swiss company Zewi & Bebe Jou is called Denver, but it's so reminiscent of the sculptures and furniture pieces of minimalist sculptor Donald Judd, they might as well name it Marfa. [See,...
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And Coleco Means "Little Cole."

Actually, an artist couple in Philadelphia have a daughter named Atari. [artforum, bottom photo caption]...
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September 8, 2006

What Happens In Vegas, Baby!!

I'm off to Las Vegas for the ABC Kids Expo. While I'm gone, play nice, please don't get too worked up about crocs [or Crocs], and buy a lot of sweet strollers, cool stuff and musik classes from our sweet,...
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How Was I Supposed To Know Nutella Has Nuts In It?

It looks like chocolate to me, and I'm pretty sure the French have been giving it to their kids for like 800 years or something. Nutella Babies [cabiria's photostream on flickr]...
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High Reality TV Producer Alert In Effect For Madison Avenue Tomorrow

Love the concept of a street fair, but hate the idea of generic tube socks and having to shuffle along with of all those, you know, people [or "those people", the italics really work either way]? Join Cookie Magazine and...
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Frankly, I'm Fed Up With This Monkey Business

I missed the Paul Frank monkey trend when it was hot, in the 90's, and the kid's not a Small Paul groupie, either. But her 11-yo cousin is a Julius fanatic, and that's been all I need to know. So...
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September 7, 2006

Lenski's Little Sailboat Teaches Nautical Vocabulary, Other Class-Appropriate Lessons

Maybe I wouldn't have been so conscious of the hyper-WASPy presumptuousness of Lois Lenski's The Little Sailboat if I hadn't been reading Policeman Small so often. But when we went to the library today, and the kid plopped down...
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Braniff Blanket By Alexander Girard

Airlines weren't always teh suck. To hear about it now, Braniff seems like a groovalicious disco paradise in the air. But then again, those geezers from Studio 54 act like it was the greatest thing before or since, too...
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FAA: No Airline CARES, So Now Parents Can Buy Carseat Replacement Themselves

Plane travel with a kid is set to get easier, and by "easier," I mean "$80 more expensive and now involves checked car seats instead of carried ones." A while back, the FAA approved the use of seatbelt-supplementing harnesses as...
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Ausgezeichn--Eh. Mercedes CLS 4-Door Coupe Wagon

My uncle used to get a new Porsche 911 every year, which is why I wanted to be an orthopedic surgeon when I was a growing up. It's also why I never could forgive someone for putting a slant-nose...
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[How] Do You Write About Other People's Kids?

So we had the first event for the kid's little class at pre-school last night, a playdate at the school playground, and it went pretty well. {Except that while rushing to cut grape clusters while taking a meeting on the...
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September 6, 2006

Table & Chairs On eBay Are Cool, Vedel-esque, $500+

These cool, molded ply, children's chairs and play table are unmarked, but they're described by a mid-century collector/seller on eBay as "vintage Scandinavian." They definitely look similar to the pieces Kristian Vedel did for Orskov in the 1950's. Similar,...
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Are You Rich Enough To Join The Producers Of Supernanny In Creating Some Real Quality TV?

Gee, all these posts about Mercedeses and I have to read about this in the blogs?We are developing a new docu-drama program for a major network about Manhattan's most glamorous parents and the issues they face living in the "Capital...
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With Disney Apples, Character Licensing Goes End-to-End

Cartoon characters owned by giant media conglomerates: they're not just for diapers anymore:Among the other arrivals to the produce aisle [besides "peaches with Daisy Duck and Goofy stickers, and table grapes packaged in Mickey and Minnie Mouse boxes. Organic...
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Jon Stewart Pushes Unidentified Local Stroller

The grand NYC tradition of dads taking the kid for a walk at a once-unthinkably early hour on Sunday continues. From Gawker Stalker: 28 W 23RD ST Sep 3rd, 2006 @ 8am Jon Stewart with his 2-y-o son at Home...
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Unidentified Local Families Just Stand There

Well, maybe not local. One family has New Jersey dealer plates on their Audi Q7. But they do just stand there. And yet somehow 173 photos don't even begin to capture the moment. In completely unrelated news, the CEO...
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Heated Seats The Ultimate Ball-Steaming Machine?

I don't know about you, but when it comes to sperm production science, I prefer my revolutionary findings to be unburdened by citations, publications, and tedious explanationsn of methodology. And if possible, I like them roughly translated from a foreign...
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A Dad-To-Be's Tribute To His Dad

My step-father passed away a couple of months before the kid was born [stage 2 pancreatic cancer]. And even with a strongly held faith that our family will rally after this life, sometimes it's hard to be reminded that she'll...
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When What You Love Isn't Necessarily Dangerous, Just Time-Consuming

Thanks for a lot of really thoughtful comments about the "died doing what he loved" post. I have to say, a real standout came from fellow not-so-extreme skier Jon, who not only writes at length about the "other side," [i.e,...
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September 5, 2006

Dad-made Baby Bed, A La Francaise: Lit De Camille

"Chez nous, faire le lit des enfants est une tradition. Mon grand pere a fait celui de mon pere qui a fait le mien...J'ai donc dessine celui de ma fille." "In our family, making a child's bed is a...
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1,400 Chinese Nannies Can't Be Wrong, or NY Magazine Has This Country By The Parenting Shorthairs

And by "this country," I mean "Connecticut." The NY Times wades into the whole Chinese Nannies For The Children Of The Overclass thing a bit late, but don't worry, they've got a new angle: Chinese Au Pairs. See? Completely different....
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Jack & Baby Bear: The Michael & LaToya Of The Puppet World

We've only watched Jack's Big Music Show on Noggin a few times, but I had a call today, so...[click], there it was. As I watched the first few minutes with the kid, though, [who loves it, by the way]...
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Carbon Neutral Diapers, Now In Cloth, Too

Carbon Clear has been offering a carbon and greenhouse emissions offset for disposable diapers for a while now, inspired by the birth of company founder Mark Chadwick's daughter. Treehugger reports that Carbon Clear has just expanded to include cloth diaper...
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HRH Haakon Crown Prince Of Norway Has Not, As Yet, Confirmed His Attendance

But a company called Mutsy USA, Inc. is on the exhibitor list for this weekend's ABC Kid's Expo in Las Vegas. Stay tuned. [via dt reader mark] Previously: Mutsy coming to the US, Crown Prince Haakon still checking his calendar...
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Taba Naba: "And Have A GREAT Time!" 4,890 Times.

This YouTube clip only shows it's been watched 4,890 times, but I swear, we've watched it that many times this week. And it's only Tuesday. "Taba Naba" has consistently been the kid's most requested video clip when she wants...
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Japonais, 111 East 18th St & Park Avenue South - CLOSE ENOUGH

Metrodad scouted this one out: "No changing room, but they have an individual W/C next to the Mens/Womens rooms that has a marble countertop and ample space. Great place to change diapers."...
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Scientists: 'Blues Clues' Teaches Your Child Important Life Skills

Researchers at Vanderbilt University have shown that by the age of two, most kids have already developed important life skills like webcamming, but are just beginning to learn how to yell at a TV screen. The study sat kids...
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Half King Bar, 505 West 23rd St & 10th Avenue - YES

go for the burgers, stay for the changing table in the unisex bathroom. impressive. scouted by metrodad, laidoffdad, and dt...
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The Conran Shop, 407 East 59th St at 1st Ave. - NO

there should be sofas and lounges enough to throw down in a pinch, though. scouted by dt reader henry...
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September 4, 2006

When What We Love And Who We Love Are At Odds

Whatever his animal conservation and awareness accomplishments, Steve Irwin's clownlike persona and the unfathomably unpredictable circumstances of his death make him a poor posterboy for discussing the issue of whether to continue extreme behavior after you have a kid. [And...
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Returned To Secaucus, Seventy Percent Off: DWR Annex

Every once in a while, by my count--or every time we're on the Turnpike, by my wife's--I express an interest in building a vacation home in the New Jersey Meadowlands. Not the sports complex, of course, the swamps, the...
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Big G, Little g

In one of her frequent retro modes, the kid wanted to read her warped, chewed up copy of My First ABC Board Book this morning. This time, I just did the letters, "Big A, little a," etc. And in...
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Baby-Dangling Croc Hunter Killed In Freak Stingray Accident

TV personality and wild animal wrangler Steve Irwin, shown here in 2004 dangling his plump, 1-month-old, chicken-sized son during a Crocodile feeding show at his animal park, has died while diving on camera, off the coast of Australia. He...
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New Stokke Xplory Car Seat Adaptor

See? Everything you wish for in the baby gear industry will turn up, it just takes two years. The folks as Stokke are introducing car seat adaptors for the Xplory. There'll be both Graco and Peg Perego adapters for the...
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Sweet Vintage Creative Playthings Cloth Cubes

Fredun Shapur's [1] sweet graphics are reason enough to get these vintage Creative Playthings Cloth Cubes. The fact that they're in good, playable condition and come with the original box, too, is just gravy. Of course, before you let...
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September 3, 2006

Burning Van

You never know what you'll come up with when you search for photos of white minivans on flickr. I have a feeling no breeders were harmed in the Burning of this Van:Burning Van is a micro relief organization whose...
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Two Minivans Share One Gas Tank, Two Drivers Share One Brain

via contrabandbayou on flickr What do you get when you combine two '89 Dodge Caravans, an arc welder, two East Texas dads, and too much free time? The Doubleheader. Coming soon to an oddball car parade near you. [meager...
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[It's A Rental.] The Daddy Types White Van Of Baby Gear

Hey man, look what's in this Amazon-powered van. For those who feel guilty about the environmental impact of disposable diapers, relax: the money Amazon donates to me for all the stuff you buy out of this little white van is...
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Thumbing Through The New Age Baby Name Book

The New Age Baby Name Book was published in 1974. It was [one of?] the first name books to include non-traditional, non-Anglo, non-Western European names. Which were handily called "Ethnic Names." Before the list started, though, there was a brief...
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September 2, 2006

You Down With PGD? No "Wait & See"

The NY Times has a long article on the expanding frequency and breadth of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, or P.G.D. PGD involves removing a cell from an 8-cell embryo for genetic screening. Then if it passes, that embryo is implanted using...
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Hanns Reich's Children And Their Fathers

From some Boomer on eBay:Those Of You Younger than I - Who Interpret The Past I Lived through with mere History Replication and Remnants of "News" and "Culture" Have Missed So Much........ In the Present Day When you Listen to...
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4 Teletubbies + 1 Chainsaw + Flash = 3 Telet-, Er, 2 Teletubbies

Needless to say, this Flash game, wherein the player kills Teletubbies with his choice of a chainsaw, a pistol, or a rifle, may not be appropriate for babies or young children. Also, I only sampled it with the sound off,...
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September 1, 2006

Daddy Types Advertisers Let You Pump Without Clocking Out

A virtually hands-free shoutout to the advertisers here at Daddy Types, who pump tirelessly, even on the road, to keep us all supplied with healthy, capitalistic goodness. If you've got a product, service, or message you'd like to flash in...
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Dad's Little Hindu Deity Book Reincarnated As A Penguin

You know Little India, that cute little book of Hindu mythology book that dad/animator Sanjay Patel published last year, that I mentioned again yesterday? DT reader JJ Daddy-o clicked through, only to find that it's no longer available. [The...
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But Does He Sing 'Some Day My Prince Will Come?"

A distraught mom wrote in to the Washington Post because their 3.5-yo son is obsessed with Disney Princesses: wants to play dress up rather than go outside, even insists on a Disney Princess birthday party. "So far, my husband and...
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Daddy Types Eye On Breasts

They're important enough to get our undivided attention, so here's news from the breastfeeding front: Lactation rooms, company-supplied breast pumps, "sorry about the background noise" comments during conference calls, it's all good news for working moms who want to...
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Outraged Yet? Links From All Over

Over at BoingBoing, Xeni's all freaked out. You'd think she'd never seen a fully illustrated, nothing-left-out, 1971 Danish sex-ed book for preschoolers by Per Holm Knudsen before. [attention t-workers: that first link starts with an illustration from the book;...
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