Daddy Types: October 2006 Archives

October 2006 Archives

October 31, 2006

Just Sit Right Back And Hear A Tale That'll Blow Your Mind

So I was thinking that Mr. Howell's name didn't sound right, so I started Googling around a bit. I was right, after I was wrong, that is: it wasn't P. Was it J.? Thurston J. Howell III.? Or just Thurston...
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DT Namewatch: Thurston Howell III Edition

Sigfried Eli Ludwig Gustav Tobias Thea Heinz Yvon for a guy Here's a batch from Elizabeth, who works in a hospital. I worried a bit about posting them all at once, because if you threw this list at Google, I...
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Unboxing The CARES Fly Safe Planeseat Harness

We're getting more Engadgety [Or is it Gizmodo-y?] every day. DT reader Don has had enough of lugging that Tripleplay Sit-n-Stroll around on plane trips. [You know the one. Looks like someone ripped it out of an RV and...
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Q: NYC Hotels With Daycare?

DT reader Mark asks a question I'd never thought of before:Do you know any hotels in NYC with daycares? My lovely wife wants to come to New York with me for work, and it would be fun for the kiddo...
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Bad Parentwatch: My Daughter, The Junkie

I am absolutely slammed at work, with a deadline for today. The kid's off to Grandma's for Halloween, but here is what she did yesterday: Sesame Street Sesame Street Looked for the Wiggles, weren't on. Read a dozen little...
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October 29, 2006

Biggest Saved By The Bell Collection EVER On eBay

If you're like me, you were despairing over how you could ever properly convey to your newborn child the important, formative influence Saved By The Bell played in your life. Without, you know, bringing up Showgirls or the Screech sex...
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Because There's Nothin' Better--Or Funnier--Than A Good Lickin'

Spanking your kids helps them succeed in business and/or capital crimes, so get crackin! Someone needs to take this columnist out to the woodshed and teach him a lesson--a lesson in how to make embarassing attempts to shrug off the...
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Breaking: Greg Wiggle Diagnosed With Darrin Stephens Syndrome

Seems that Greg Page, aka Greg Wiggle, is fairly sick. Let's hope he's actually just holding out for more creative control. But just in case, don't send those 2000 season tapes to the Goodwill just yet. You're my backup...
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October 28, 2006

Want A Friend? Get A Dog.

Heartening news for the SAHD's out there looking for playgroups and playdates. The NY Times says it's the newest trend. For for Stay At Home Dog owners:Nothing involving pets, though, is just about the animal. Just as it’s no secret...
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October 27, 2006

What Do You Make Of This? There's A Sample Sale At Dwell Baby's!

yeah, 40-50% off retail, at the store, 62 Greene St [Spring & Broome]. Apparently it started yesterday and runs through Sunday, 11AM-7:30PM. Wha?? It's 11AM RIGHT NOW. RUN! Dwell Baby [dwellshop.com via design*sponge]...
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Daddy Wars: The Central Front In The War On/Of Daddies

Flush with our culture's stunning victory in The Mommy Wars [I guess we showed those capitalist moms who's boss, eh, Caitlin?], pundits may be looking to open a new front in the global war on parenting. So in his weekly...
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Your Daddy's The One Laying There On The Grass

Congratulations to Arizona Cardinals QB Matt Leinart for making it to Los Angeles in time for his ex-girlfriend Brynn Cameron to give birth to a son, Cole:Coach Dennis Green said Leinart was excited about becoming a father. "He'll whip out...
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Q: Tips For Great Playgroups, SAHD Groups?

In addition to being a source of fun, entertainment, note-comparing, germ-swapping, and polysyllabic conversation, good playgroups can save an at-home parent's sanity, too. But for a whole host of reasons, they can also be awkward or even unwelcoming for dads....
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October 26, 2006

Ewok In A Bugaboo

I am slammed with work, just as we're ramping up to that crazy Halloween season, that brief, brief window where parents are able to their kid up in whatever they want with no input or grief from the kid....
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Research Scoop: Kids Hate Needles

Just as we got able to overcome the kid's fear of the doctor's office--triggered by the wallpaper border and the icy, hard scale in changing/weighing room--the kid'd have another shot, and we'd be back to square one, having to prep...
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Paul Rand's Children's Books

I really feel like I've let the kid down. Telling her she'll just have to wait until the US Open to see the IBM logo. Just shaking my head whenever a package comes, and she breaks out into another crying...
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More Black/White Twins Born To Bi-Racial Parents

Stories about multi-racial couples having one-white/one-black twins used to be a rarity in the news. But now they're as common as kids stuck in vending machines. Also ubiquitous: lame "Ebony & Ivory" references. No Kidding! They're Twins! [nypost via gawker]...
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Wring Out Your Dead: Bodies Bank Big Baby Biz Bucks

The alliterative headline thing only goes so far. Forbes published its list of the top-earning dead celebrities this week, and while everyone else goes on about the significance of Kurt Cobain displacing Elvis for the top spot [$50 million vs...
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October 25, 2006

Local Media Cheers As Another Small Boy Climbs Into Vending Machine

Seriously, people, this has to stop. And if not, can we just make it a flickr photogroup and be done with it? Toddler Gets Trapped Inside Vending Machine [aol news via dt reader jmo]...
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iXs Navirobo GPS Teddy Bear Looks Like He Got Capped

This GPS teddy bear waves its paws to tell you the direction to your destination. And when you miss a turn, it mocks you. And when it mocks someone with a handgun, he shoots it in the forehead. [Wait,...
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Nice Timing: Creative Playthings Puppets On eBay, Too

First, the puppet bad news: When I linked to that Creative Playthings Puppet Theater yesterday, I thought, wouldn't it be nice if there were some puppets, too? Unfortunately, the only famous, creepy, CP vinyl puppets at the moment were...
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Gertrude Stein's Other Children's Book, Sort Of.

To my esteemed fellow author, Ms. Gertrude Stein: First let me say, I love your work, and I think you have a very promising future in the arts. Second, congratulations on what appears to be your second children's book,...
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How Crazy [sic] Is Therapy For Babies?

This Wall St Journal article talks about early diagnosis of autism and anxiety disorder in infants [signs: crying, agitation, inability to express self, mood swings, what?], but my diagnosis is there's a whole lot of projection going on. Parents' own...
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Sponsor Giveaway: 92nd St Y Family Music Concert, Sun. 10/29

Here's something new and exciting: An illustrious advertiser, the 92nd St Y, has a ticket giveaway for Daddy Types readers. The first five people to email with 'daddytypes' in the subject will get early, guaranteed admission to one of the...
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In The Cabinet: Leonard S. Marcus' History Of Children's Books

Alright, I've lifted enough stuff from Cabinet Magazine's interview with artist Leonard S. Marcus, who gives a fascinating, conversation-sized history of children's books, from the 17th century to Harry Potter. Marcus is an expert on the subject and yet another...
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Gertrude Stein's Children's Book: The World Is Round

I'm starting to sense a conspiracy of silence here. Gertrude Stein, of all people, did a children's book, too, in 1939, at the suggestion of Margaret Wise Brown, of all people. Do I even need to tell you who did...
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The First Picture Book, By Edward Steichen. Seriously.

Alright, which 6 billion of you have been hiding this from me? Edward Steichen, one of the giants of modern photography, did a children's book in 1930. The First Picture Book was created under the inspiration and influence of his...
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October 24, 2006

Buffy's Famous Pig: Mr. Gordo Plush Toy

How long does it take to complete a character licensing deal, you wonder? Let's see, Buffy The Vampire Slayer went off the air in 2003, and 2006 is almost over... Entertainment Earth is promising to bring out a limited...
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Here, Here: World-famous Designer Decries Cupholder Culture

Jessica Helfand is a designer's designer, and she plumbs deep meaning from the little things in our world the rest of us didn't even notice. This time around, not a moment too soon, she peers through the windshield of...
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Get Into My Belly: Martha Stewart Turkey Costume

Never let it be said that Daddy Types won't stoop so low as to post about Martha Stewart. We WILL stoop that low, thank you very much, as long as it's funny enough. Oh, but what's funny about the...
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Scientists: Something About Cell Phones And Sperm Counts

Yeah, I'm not really following this: Guys who are on their cell phones for four hours a day or more have dramatically reduced sperm counts. Which head are they holding that thing against? The findings are preliminary and unclear [duh],...
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Mod Modular Mondrian-y Kids Furniture By Hiroki Takada

Some of the earliest exhibited work of Hiroki Takada, a designer based outside Nagoya, is kid's furniture. Dubbed System 1, 2, and 3, Takada created clean, simple wood furniture based on square shapes. Yes, it looks like slats or...
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Creative Playthings Puppet Theater On eBay Looks Like Laugh-in

Was it something in the air? Which came first? Because this psychedelic little Creative Playthings puppet theater, with walls full of little puppet openings, is dated 1968, the same year that Laugh-in, with its joke wall full of little...
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October 23, 2006

Bless You, Pete Doherty. Bless You, Kate Moss.

The last few weeks as we've been ironing out the details and the concept, I've had a single, anxious doubt running through my brain: "But what if no one really disastrously famous has a baby next spring? Who'd care about...
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DT Namewatch #8: Pig Princess

Here are some interesting names that have leaped across the theater of my mind. You hear of any name prodigies out there, you send them to names [at] daddytypes [dot] com, aight?: Saxon Marie [via chris] Niklas [via david] Nico...
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Ren & Stimpy's Dad Blames Damn Hippies For Decline Of Western Toy Civilization

As the creator of the greatest crass animation since Beavis & Butthead, John Kricfalusi knows a thing or two about precipitating the decline of civilization. Since by his count, it happened sometime in the late Sixties or early Seventies,...
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Annie Liebovitz Naked On A Cold Day!

Annie Liebovitz naked on a cold day! Naked and pregnant, and striking a particularly Demi Moorish pose, you might say The Vanity Fair caption reads Dec. 15, 2001 [gawker]...
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Two Words, Pal: Carlos Leon

The father of Madonna's newly adopted son said yesterday he didn't realize that the arrangement meant the boy would no longer be part of his family. "If we were told that she wants to take the baby as her own...
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October 22, 2006

Swedish Or Not, DT Advertisers Are Tall, Beautiful, And Have Something For You

If you'll put the revealing investigative report on America's obsession with porn on mute for a second, I'd like to make a quick shoutout to Daddy Types' advertisers, two three [dude!] of which are from Sweden, and none of which...
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October 21, 2006

Hey Microsoft, LamerDad.com Is Still Available.

So for three+ years, GamerDad.com has been a leading independent, pioneering resource to help parents get involved with their kids' video gameplaying. Started by a tech journalist and at-home dad and edited by parents and gaming enthusiasts, it's a...
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CVS Goes After Brand-Addled Chump Segment With Playskool Diapers

Even though the kid's been a toilet-using champ, we're still in diaper mode at night, on long trips [though she's done well there, too], and, unfortunately this week, at school, where the transition and stress seem to be translating into...
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus' Arrested Development Fake Pregnancy Belly On eBay

Though it is neither Swedish nor a kitten [nor a penetrating (sic) expose' into America's addiction to porn], the flesh-toned latex pregnancy belly and bust worn by Julia Louis-Dreyfus during season 2 of Arrested Development has attracted considerable interest...
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October 20, 2006

Lick The Baby! Don't Lick The Baby.

Friend of DT Matt Haber did a sit-down with the Wonder Showzen folks for Radar:Chatman: But you know, the other thing is, like, we'd have to clean it off every time. It would react and cry. It's a production problem,...
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The Swedish Pacifier Tree

There are a million reasons to subscribe to Cabinet Magazine, but here's one more: Mats Bigert writes about the pacifier tree at Stockholm's zoo in Skansen. Since they began to accumulate thirty years ago until they were last counted...
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Cactus Pacifier Mod

DT reader Josh sends word of the Nuggiweg, a cactus-modded pacifier. Made in Germany. And with this simple how-to image, you can make one where you are, too. Cactus Soother [funny-town via josh]...
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Belgian Design Fair Whips Up Baby Holding Pen

What to do with all the kids who might descend on Kortrijk for Interieur06, Belgian's national contemporary furniture and design expo? Easy. Just grab some plywood and some kid-sized product from the exhibitors, add a thin cushion somewhere, scatter...
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Unidentified Local Object Actually First Orbit Baby Car Seat Spotted In The Wild

Daddy Types has confirmed that what was mistakenly identified in early reports as "that crock pot" and "something," turns out to be the first known sighting in the wild of an Orbit Baby Travel System. The incident occurred this...
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October 19, 2006

GQ: Good Things Come In Pairs. Like Swedish Stroller Ramps

Whoa, check out this set! Of stroller ramps. We've seen some in Copenhagen, too, but on GQ's design blog [I know, I'm as surprised as you.] Michael Hsu can't stop staring at these Swedish models, the likes of which...
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DT Namewatch #7: Sports Illustrated

Did you hear the names of the future today? Send them to names [at] daddytypes [dot] com: Ayn [sent me a press release from familyfun.com] Navy & Island Shuler [son and daughter of ex-Redskin Heath, SI via daddyzine] Berit, Urban...
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MoMA Design Store Is 20% Off For Members Through Oct. 22

It's apparently Fall Sale Madness on Daddy Types today. The MoMA Design Store usually offers museum members a 10% discount on all their purchases. But when the holidays draw near [even a little near], they have Member Shopping Days, both...
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Speaking of Deals...

While I'm on the subject of deals and sales, Modern Child is running a sale through October, where the discount is based on the total order size. For example, a couple of pieces of minimalist clothing awesomeness from Tuss [say,...
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Returnsforsale.com: Strollers So Nice They Sell Them Twice

Very interesting concept. Thanks to Niche Retail's Advanced URL Deployment System, it's always pretty clear what's for sale on a given site: JoggingStrollers.com, EliteCarSeats.com, ReturnsForSale.com, etc. You may recognize the first two from their flashy advertisements on Daddy Types. That...
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Pat Robertson And Friends Coloring Book Provides Quaint, Toothless Entertainment

As political jiujitsu goes, the release of Kevin Stone's Pat Robertson And Friends Coloring Book couldn't be less threatening to its targets. Robertson seems washed up to me, a slightly stale punchline for a liberal standup routine. Not that...
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US Study: Moms & Dads Both Spending More Time With Kids

Research by a team of University of Maryland sociologists and demographers shows that compared to 40 years ago, parents across the board are spending more time with their kids. Even when they work outside the home, moms spend more time...
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October 18, 2006

Libertée, Egalitée, Maternitée

Vivent les poitrines de la République! Marianne, breastfeeder of the nation, by Daumier [via musee d'orsay] What with all the guaranteed maternity leave, subsidized childcare--including government-subsidized daycare or tax credits for nannies--government bonus payments for having multiple children, and...
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Playground Series Handscreened Cards

Some day I'll stop prefacing every post of some kind of cute handprinted paper product with, "I don't do much crafty cute paper around here, but..." but that day is not yet. Nevertheless, this Playground Series of notecards by...
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DT Namewatch #6: From The "Underground"

Hear any interesting and/or underground names recently? Send them all--except ESPN [pronounced Espen, ps: sorry, Kaz], that's just not credible--to names [at] daddytypes [dot] com: J.J. Clay Redick [via deadspin: "as a toddler because his twin sisters each repeated his...
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Giant And/Or Tiny Hungry Caterpillars

No one in the Boardbook Industrial Complex needs less publicity than Eric Carle [1]. Even an army of Miffy, Elmo, Blues Clues, Disney Princess, Thomas, Spongebob, plain old Bob, Dora, and The Wiggles is powerless to keep Carle's distinctive...
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Discovering Indie Movie Screenings For Babies, Just Too Late For The Idi Amin Biopic

If all you really want is to watch a movie, any movie just let me see the inside of a theater again before I die of lack of sleep,the multiplex weekday morning screening programs like Loews' Reel Moms are fine...
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Car Playoffs Final: Some Latebreaking Scores

Mercedes: 1, BMW: 0: When a delivery van pulled in front of my wife this morning as she was driving our old 1985 Mercedes Tank Coupe, she stopped short. Far shorter than the BMW 6-series behind her, has it...
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Dutch Chatbot Baby Grows Up In Six Days, Demands Much Virtual H&M Clothing

Eccky is a giant marketing platform disguised as a social networking game, where Dutch folk sign up, pair up [if you didn't bring a partner, one will be "Love Matched" to you], and birth a virtual baby. The baby, called...
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October 17, 2006

DT Namewatch #5: A Lot Of Class

Hear any great or interesting names while you were lingering around the daycare dropoff? Send'em in and start a trend: names [at] daddytypes [dot] com Treazure ["with a 'Z', from my daughter's preschool," via stephen] Cirdan [another preschool classmate, "pronounced...
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Laser Print Your Bugaboo

Wow, with this special metal marking ceramic spray-on glaze, you can laser print any design you want onto a metal surface in no time at all. Alls you need is: the spray [$65 a can] a Bugaboo [Frog and...
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Nineteenth Century Funerary Photographs

One of the scenes that stays with me from Daniel Raeburn's New Yorker essay about how he and his wife dealt with the stillbirth of their daughter was the photographs. A nurse had assumed they would want to take...
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Mocoloco, For One, Interviews Our Ooba Overlord

Harry's got Ooba co-founder and designer Scott Wilson on the line, and Wilson waxes eloquent about his process and his inspiration [for Ooba, unsurprisingly, it's his own daughter. One money quote: "My goal was to create objects that bring the...
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October 16, 2006

Daddy Types Thanks Its Advertisers, Only One Of Which Is Into Porn

A big shoutout to the advertisers here [or >> there >>, depending on how you read this] on Daddy Types, who provide amazing, essential products and information for new parents--and the occasional "expose'" on porn. Go figure: EliteCarSeats.com, which...
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"Cute Kid. What'ser Name?" "Travesty."

Uh-oh, the impossibly biased liberal media in Pelosi-land, that liberal hippie hotbed of San Francisco, is at it again, trying to brainwash everyone with their views of families and parenting. What're they up to this time? ABC News anchor and...
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Skip Hop Counter Gear Not Just For Parents Anymore

The problem with going to trade shows, of course, is that you end up seeing--and reporting about--stuff long in advance of when it actually becomes available. And then you realize--as I just did--that it's been five months since I...
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Text-Based Adventure Game/Baby Anecdote Hilarious For Some

I will wager that the delicate machinations required to steer a 1-yo birthday party conversation to the NFL pale in comparison to bringing up a youthful appreciation of text-based computer games:My son just turned two, but about six months ago,...
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October 15, 2006

DT Namewatch #4: Reader Rite-in Roundup

Keene [via annette] Razi [via david] Yana [via ana & sergei] Constance Arden ["but we call her Coco," via shana] Oak (boy) Antonella (girl) Kirin (boy) Ellis (girl) Nana (girl) Zidan (boy) [all via jennifer] Dorian Zev ["it means...
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Hungry Hungry Hippos Teaches Selflessness And Love

Neal "Alternadad" Pollack's got a funny story in this week's NY Times Magazine. Oh, and his book is finally coming out in January:In the few days since we’d purchased Hungry Hungry Hippos for Elijah, he’d made up his own...
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October 14, 2006

You Can Rearrange These Tangram Shelves A Million Ways. If You Really Want To.

Sure, you could rearrange these cool-looking Tangram shelves. But I bet you a dollar you won't. You actually think with a kid rolling around on the floor, you'll have enough free time to precision-rehang seven oddly shaped shelves purely...
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DWDC: Driving While Driven Crazy

Californians are all up in their own grilles over a new ban on cellphones while driving. From the LA Times: The distraction caused by children is likely at least as serious a problem as cellphones. Unlike cellphones, it is not...
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October 13, 2006

DT Namewatch #3: Frieze, Plus One

Come across a name that stuck with you? You could hoard it for yourself. OR you could share it and maybe start an international naming trend: email names [at] daddytypes [dot] com: Arias [via dt reader Dianne: "we call him...
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"Different States of Being"

The Frieze Art Fair is this weekend in London, but because of preschool and other obligations, we're not there. As art fair circuses go, it's probably the most intelligent and well-thought-through and enjoyable, and not just because they make a...
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Daddy Tattoos...His Kid's Handprint On His Back

Along with this picture, DT reader Tom sent in a bit of the backstory, so to speak, for his new ink, which he got to commemorate the completion of their two-partner adoption of their daughter. With a tatoo this...
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50 33 32 Modded Playsam Racers To Be Auctioned Off At Fitzsu

Playsam and the Fitzsu Society in Pasadena have teamed up for the Fitzsu Grand Prix, a design auction Oct. 19th to benefit the World Childhood Foundation [no doubt the World Kitten & Puppy Foundations were on the beneficiary shortlist....
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October 12, 2006

Sutnar's Bauhaus-era Wooden Toys

Please please please will someone put me out of my misery and start producing these things? Everything I just wrote about Ladislav Sutnar's book goes 10x for his toys, most of which were made in the 1920's and early 1930's...
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Czech-Made: The World Of Shape, Ladislav Sutnar's Awesome Children's Book

You'd think it'd be enough that Czech designer Ladislav Sutnar launched the area code and helped ease civilization into the information age without having waves of data crash down upon our heads. You'd think it'd be enough that his...
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Malcolm Gladwell Reveals Roots Of Adult Achievement, Proceeds To Tease And Zhoozh Them A Little

They say, "write what you know." Malcolm Gladwell spoke to a conference of pychologists about precociousness, prodigies, and how bunk it is to use Mozart and even Einstein as justification for what amounts to a misguided obsession with childhood...
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DT Namewatch, #2: Kinskis & Embracing Ethnic Names

Wow, Namewatch. It's like how, when you learn a new word, you start hearing it everywhere: Aljosha Kinski [boy], Sonja Moussa, Kenia [girls] [imdb bio] Marcus Philimon, Demetrius Anthony, Lumay [from Lumei] Jayon [from Jiyang], and on and on and...
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Scientists: Cat People Have More Boys

Researchers in the Czech Republic have found that women with high levels of the toxoplasma antibody have a 72% chance of giving birth to a boy, compared to the average 51% chance. The Toxoplasma parasite, which can cause birth...
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One Rejected Slogan: "How Mother Picked Up Baby [And Swung Him While She Was Drunk]"

Wait, now was the Greatest Generation the one who fed their babies beer, or did the beer-fed ones go on to give birth to the Greatest Generation? Either way, a case of Blatz beer in the house certainly does...
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October 11, 2006

Because Sometimes You Gotta Kiss A Lot Of Frogs

I've been emailing about strollers with DT reader and dad-to-be Kevin [due in December, good luck with that, oh, and GO OUT EVERY NIGHT!]. He writes:I originaly started the search a while ago and had put the Bugaboo on my...
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Introducing DT Namewatch

I hear and read unusual and interesting names all the time that make me go "hmm." And even if they don't get added to the shortlist on our mental fridge, maybe they'll spark someone else's naming imagination. So it is...
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Slightly Judd-y Kids Chairs Made From Orange Crates

Regular readers of Daddy Types know I love me some Donald Judd furniture. I've even wished so hard for Judd-like kid's furniture, I've gone and had some knocked together myself. What I haven't done, though, is scour antique malls...
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Czech Out These Insane 'Factory Town' Blocks By Ladislav Sutnar

Ladislav Sutnar was a Czech product/graphic/information designer who fled to the US at the outset of World War II. He spent the first years in the US trying to find a manufacturer for some of the toys he had...
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Awesome Molded Ply Table & Chairs From Modernseed

Modernseed actually "leaked" their great-looking Chalker, a curvy, molded wood play table with a chalkboard surface, a few months back when they ran it in an ad in Dwell. Turned out that production wasn't quite ready yet, though, and...
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Mommy War Surplus Goods

Except for uncovering several choice quotes from Caitlin Flanagans' apparent flameout on The Colbert Report [ed.: youtube much?], everything you need to know about James Wolcott's hey-where's-the-party? review of some Mommy Wars-related books, you can learn from the title,...
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October 10, 2006

Ford Motor Company And/Or Subsidiaries Care About New Families.

Two items from Jalopnik today show the deep and abiding love the Ford Motor Company has for you, the new families of America: Spyshots of the new Volvo V70 wagon: Or, the new families of Sweden, whatever, same difference. The...
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Nurseryworkin' It: Sparkability Now Rocking 50% Off On Final Stock

A few weeks back, pioneering kids design purveyor [and DT advertiser] Sparkability took on a shipment of Nurseryworks furniture in discontinued color/finish combinations, and started selling the lot for 30% off. Well, now, with [by my count] six cribs, three...
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Imprtant Tips For Dads #46: How To Bring Up The NFL

While there seems to be no solution as yet for the awkwardness that is a first birthday party [1], Big Daddy Drew does have some suggestions for saving the talking-with-dads-you-don't-know situation--by turning the conversation to the NFL:Bring up a game...
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Holy Crap. Mom Attacks Baby Daddy. With Baby.

Some crazy mom in Erie, Pennsylvania smacked her baby daddy upside the head with her 4-week-old baby, causing a skull fracture and some internal bleeding. On the baby, that is. The Erie Times-News is on the story:...[baby daddy Deangelo] Troop,...
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Vibe's Cookie To Not Be Called Oreo

Because Jay Z got upset when it was gonna be called Phat Baby, and Kimora got all up in their teething grill when they suggested Baby Diddy, Vibe's new parenting magazine will be called Prodigy. Prodigy will be delivered first...
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Somewhat Kid-skeptical Artist/Dad Builds Giant Slides In Tate Modern

The Tate Modern's giant Turbine Hall is the site of London's most high-profile art installations. Opening today is a set of giant curly slides by entemologist-turned-artist Carsten Holler. In an interview with the Observer, who discussed the impact becoming a...
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Bold Predictions: US To Be "Major Player In Global Economy" in 2043. Also, Gerber 300MM Baby's Name: Juan

Never mind that it's actually just a sweepstakes, and that the name will be drawn from a pot--a melting pot, if you will. But whenever a reporter asks a purportedly serious demographer where Gerber's 300 Millionth American will be born...
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Train A Brit Up The Way He Should Go, Then He'll Want CCTV For His Kid's Crib

The UK's Future Foundation published its latest study, "The Changing Face of Parenting," last week, and most of the attention was on vague, headline-friendly phrases like "super-parents" and "lifestyle choice" and the "professionalisation of parenting." The conclusion that jumped out...
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October 9, 2006

Vintage Rock T-shirts For The Conceived-At-Woodstock Generation

And here you thought 80's OC Punkers' kids had all the fun? Not anymore. In addition to an impressive assortment of real, vintage concert T-shirts, posters, and memorabilia--did someone come across a defunct promoter's stash at one of those storage...
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The History Of Obstetrics, As Told Via Jettas, Apgars, Forceps & C-sections

From The New Yorker:Finally, at four-thirty in the afternoon, the contractions began coming five minutes apart, and they set off in their Jetta[1], with the infant car seat installed in the back. When they reached the hospital admissions desk, Rourke...
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October 8, 2006

Hey Little Baby, You Want Some Hand-Crocheted Candy Corn?

Let's face it: the American Academy of Pediatrics frowns on giving any candy to infants. Why, I even got grief for letting my 3-week-old daughter barely touch a Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookie with her protruding tongue. [I swear,...
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Hand-Knit Cranky Pants. Cranky Pants? What Are Cranky Pants?

If I had hand-knit pants this awesome when I was a little baby, I'd be calling them Happy Pants. I mean, what could be happier than a pair of pants knit just for you from super-soft, merino wool, that...
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October 6, 2006

The Panamera: Did They Really Just Type The Phrase, "Family Porsche"??

WorldCarFans has spy shots of a test mule for the coming four-door Porsche, the Panamera. They call it "the 'family' Porsche." Quite an impressive transformation from the brand's previous positioning ["the dad who sees his kids every other weekend...
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Like Important Peoples' Desks, Daddy Types Advertisers Are Mahogany

A big thanks to the most helpful and important companies in the entire universe--what, too much? fine. In the entire galaxy--the advertisers right >> over >> there >>: EliteCarSeats.com, who has the Orbit Baby Car Seat available NOW. [Orbit, galaxy,...
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The BuggyPod Is A Sidecar For Your Stroller.

Ever since [1] I saw Bedknobs & Broomsticks, I wanted a motorcycle with a sidecar. Which is why I'm so stoked about the BuggyPod, a detachable stroller side-car that clamps easily [we're waiting for the tests to come back on...
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The Executive Coloring Book, Scanned

"This is my desk. It is mahogany. Important people have mahogany desks. My walls are mahogany, too. I wish I were mahogany." The Executive Coloring Book, circa 1961 [adtothebone via tmn]...
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October 5, 2006

If This Volvo's A-Rockin...[And Chances Are It Is]

More breaking news from the self-promoting surveys department: The sponsor this time: the Yes Insurance Company of Great Britain. The topic: oh, the most popular cars to have sex in. The least surprising finding: different words for everything in England....
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Is Elmo Talking To Elmo? Martin Scorsese's Sesame Streets

Not sure why Morgan Freeman is doing the voiceover for this, but it's pretty damn funny. Watch it when the kids are asleep, though, unless you really want them to hear Elmo talking like that to the fish. Sesame Streets...
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Next Up On FOXNews: 85% Of Dads Obsessed With 'Sexpot Dolls/Characters?'

Last week I received a press release about a new study on parental skanktoy fatigue:...an overwhelming majority of mothers believe that many dolls available for young girls today are too provocative. The research says these mothers would like to see...
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From Mattel's Top Secret TMXXV Elmo Motion Capture R&D Lab In Bangalore

Of course, when they finally release the doll here, the PC police will probably make them cut the bit at the end where he fires up a butt... "Little Superstar" [youtube via deadspin, of all places] dude on sofa: Rajinikanth...
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Terrible Allergic Reaction Behind Him, Terrell Owens Writes Children's Book

According to the press release excerpt at GalleyCat, Dallas Cowboy wide receiver Terrell Owens' children's book [for 3-5yo's], titled Little T Learns To Share, "uses adorable illustrations and rhyming text to show one boy learning to share his new football...
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Super-folding Quicksmart Stroller Spotted In Maine

We generally give the Baby Industrial Complex a thorough drubbing around here, but when they get a product right, I'm happy to give it the credit it deserves. In such cases, we then redirect our drub toward the siloed bureaucracies...
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L¹Atelier de Joel Robuchon at The Four Seasons, 57 E. 57th St Between Madison & Park - CLOSE ENOUGH

"No diaper table in the men's room. However, you can go downstairs to the massive individual bathrooms servicing the hotel. Plenty of room to change diapers. And you can use their freshly-pressed linens as baby wipes." Scouted by metrodad. Note:...
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October 4, 2006

Aspiring Filmmaker Jogging That Stroller All The Way To Hollywood, Baby

OK, this is so wrong in so many ways, it might just be right. After tasting all the success Syracuse has to offer a young filmmaker, Ryan Feaster decided it was time to make his talent available to the folks...
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"Actually, 'Guest Blogger' Is My Middle Name."

Somehow, when he's not daddying his 1-yo daughter, helping his wife design up some sweet kid's clothes, conspiring to start his own design and vintage toy store, sharking around on eBay for vintage gear--and plotting his own blog--DT reader and...
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#300MM: Obscure, Inacurrate Algorithm Makes Sweet Publicity Hook For Baby Food Company

Gerber staked an early claim to the 300 millionth American hoopla, and is holding some sort of contest or promotion with big prizes for someone. I have no idea, but I'm sure Google will help you. They're basing the whole...
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October 3, 2006

Three Cool Rockers May Be Slightly Useless For Parents

While trying to track down that Roller Buggy, I came across photos from the rocking chair zone at 100% East at the London Design Festival. They may only be marginally practical for rocking a colicky baby to sleep--and then...
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Sweet Japanese Stroller-Bako Wagon

Check this out: Keruna snapped a photo of this daycare center special in Kurashiki in southern Japan. It's an aluminum-framed stroller-bako*/wagon with big Bugaboo-style tires and wheels, with a handbrake, and light cloth side panels. No matcha cupholders, I'm...
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Actually, Huggies DO Grow On Trees: Old-Growth Huggies

For several years, Kimberley-Clark, the manufacturer of Huggies and Kleenex, has had a stated corporate sustainability policy that "prohibits the use of wood fibers from ... ecologically significant old-growth areas, including ... temperate rainforests in coastal British Columbia." Trouble is--and...
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Write What You Know: The Read-A-Mat Constellation Placemat

A few months ago on a visit to the NASA Gift Shop, the kid picked this placemat out all by herself [gee, never heard that before]. It's from Read A Mat, and it's got an accurate--and almost thoroughly impenetrable--set...
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October 2, 2006

VW Ads Take Aim, Don't Care If The Seat Gets Wet

also I was researching some more HPCIA, when I came across these two print ads for the 2005 VW Golf GTi. Not sure which is more controversial at the moment: that the Playboy magazine next to the potty below...
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Fame Canada: Internationally** Reknowned* Pregnant-Chicks-In-Ads Expert*** To Appear On Radio

* And by reknowned, we mean, "will be famous, after he's interviewed on CHQR AM770 in Calgary." ** And by internationally, we mean "Calgary, which is in Canada." *** And by expert, we mean, of course, "blogger." I'd tell you...
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Think Of The Children And Their Cent Pk Vu

Discussion of real estate among the playdate set is because they're New Yorkers, hello. Anxiety about real estate, however, is attributed primarily to the parents:Julie Friedman, a senior associate broker at Bellmarc, described clients who are the parents of three...
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Nice Hood Ornament: Roller Buggy At 100% East, London Design Festival

I've seen this rig in several giant photosets from last weekend's 100% East, part of the London Design Festival, but I can't for the life of me figure out where it was exhibited, or who made it, or what...
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October 1, 2006

Trying On The Bjorn

Paul Hammond's a techie in the UK who's expecting a baby with his wife any day now. His flickr photostream is studded with shots from daddy class, strollershopping, and this photo, taken at the very moment he realizes his...
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The Man With A Camera. And A Quinny Buzz.

The man's clearly taken by his new stroller. That, or he's practicing for the day when he snaps 37 shots per minute of the kid. "37 photos": Cimac's new stroller photoset [flickr]...
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Star Trek Auction: The Daddy Types Bidder's Guide

LOT 191: AUGMENT EMBRYO INCUBATOR MODULE, [est. $300-350] If you didn't already know Paramount was throwing a massive, EVERYTHING MUST GO! auction of Star Trek props, costumes and memorabilia at Christie's this week [Oct. 5, 6 &7], you probably...
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Dad & Baby Waldorf Doll

Waldorf dolls--if you don't know, and I didn't--are handmade from natural materials [cotton knit over wool]. The name comes from their association with the Waldorf "whole child" educational philosophy of Rudolf Steiner. [Waldorf also gave name to the Eurythmics...
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