Daddy Types: November 2006 Archives

November 2006 Archives

November 30, 2006

Wiggles Breakup Predicted: Not So Funny Now, Is It?

Welllll, actually, it is pretty funny. Check out Brian's 2003 report of the rock 'n roll world's stunned reaction to news that The Wiggles were breaking up. The reason: not illness, not Yoko, not drugs--though Jeff's 'lude problem was...
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DT Namewatch #20: European Edition

Send along the names that stick in your wicket wherever you are, whether it's Port Charles or Pakistan: names [at] daddytypes [dot] com Zarf, some soap opera, because Mork was taken Bex, Jewish performer [via gawker] Thijs, "pronounced thice. [Lauer]...
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Increase Your Milk Supply With Breastea: 'These Bags Are Big'!

They're not just for men anymore. And by 'they,' I mean spam ads promising to increase your performance and size using unscientifically tested herbal treatments. Check out what DT reader Robert spotted in the hippie alternative [sic] to Craigslist in...
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His First Word Was, "Smoke? Smoke?"

It's been known for a while that a baby's tastes for things are influenced by what the mother takes in while she's pregnant: salty, spicy, broccoli--and now cigarettes. According to a long-term study from the University of Queensland, Australia, kids...
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First Year Films Makes Home Movies Documentaries For You

The NYT has an article about professionally shot--or professionally edited, at least--documentaries of children, commissioned by parents. It's a fine story, I can understand the impulse. Even though we have thousands of photos from everyone within camera range of the...
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Le Corbusiesque Doll Toy Houses

There haven't been a lot of breakout modernist dollhouses since the Miesian Villa Sibi came out a couple of years ago from awesome wood toy maker Sirch. [Damn, that thing photographed well!] But now, just in time for the holidays,...
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Coochicoos' Completely Cuckoo With Giveaways In Demember

Just as soon as Sparkability's anniversary-celebrating giveaway ends [Nov. 30th is the last chance to win $100 or $1000 gift registryful of stuff!], another takes its place. Coochicoos, the ever-stylin' baby design blog, is giving away a thing a day...
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November 29, 2006

Sweet Kay Bojesen & The Butterscotch Rocking Horse

Known to design-y parents as the father of that teak monkey, and to the rest of the world as a modernist master Danish silversmith, Kay Bojesen also made a gorgeous, pared down rocking horse in 1951. Rosendahl reissued it...
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Unidentified Woman Names Daughter After Even More Unidentified Brother

I had a great-great aunt or something who, it was revealed at her rural Utah funeral, named her firstborn son after her long-lost love, who was also her first cousin. If only she had been in the motion picture business,...
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FLASH: Where's Greg? Wiggle To Stop Wiggling

Whoa. The Wiggles have called a press conference to make a 'major announcement.' I need a drink. update: Well, that didn't take long:Page's departure will not make any difference to the power of Brand Wiggles, the company's breakfast cereals group...
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DT Namewatch #19: Two Names I, At One Time Or Another, Imagined Having Edition

Have you heard a name that went in one ear and stayed? Send it in to names [at] daddytypes [dot] com: Grisha, short for Gregor, Gregor von Rezzori [via nymag] Gray Rabbitt, family names, apparently [via artnet] Anouk, model then,...
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FLASH: Non-Alcoholic Beer Just Not The Same For Some

After reading this agonized NYT article about how some women decide to have a drink now and then when they're pregnant, I am dying to hear some French mom confess to eating a salad:Many women who choose to drink have...
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South African Man Not Pregnant, Just Lazy, Stupid

Seems a Johannesburg man figured if he just had a certificate from a doctor, he could take a week off of work. So he grabbed one at the OB's office. 'Pregnant' man fined in SA court [bbc via tmn]...
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Pink: We Fought The Hegemony, And The Hegemony Won

The answer: far less than 2.5 years. The question: how long before your soul is crushed and your kid's soul is stolen by the whole pink-blue steamroller? Don't get me wrong, I still think it's worth resisting, and truth...
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The Fable Game: DIY Storybook By Enzo Mari

The Fable Game is like a hybrid of two other projects for which Enzo Mari is best known, at least around here: those incredible, intricate animal puzzles that cost about $1 million, and Autoprogettazione, his revolutionary DIY furniture design...
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November 28, 2006

Villa Santa Maddalena, Tuscany - CLOSE ENOUGH

John Malkovich once came [to Santa Maddalena] for New Year’s dinner, [said Baronessa Beatrice Monti della Corte von Rezzori], “and I’d set up the table quite nicely, with beautiful plates and candelabras, and he put down his baby and changed...
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Update: Barney Caves & Pays, Does Not Admit To Being Evil

Remember how Barney's lawyers had been hounding a guy for years, trying to make him take his clearly legal parody offline? Well, they won't be bothering him anymore. The EFF sued them, and they agreed to back down and pay...
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Muji's "In-a-Bag" Toys Slip The Surly Bonds Of Earth

This Outer-Space-in-a-Bag toy set is small (i.e., palm-sized), but awesome. As soon as I spotted these on Muji's Christmas site, I knew they were going straight into the kid's stocking. [They're made of sustainably harvested hardwoods.] And just now,...
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The DT Interview: Bboy Booginsroc's Bboying Dad

After seeing the amazing breakdancing moves of 2.5-year-old Bboy Booginsroc, I thought I'd drop a line to his dad, who was not only the source of his ill moves, but of his old school funk and motown education before...
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One Dad's Search For A Kid's Table

Thanks to an email last week, I had the opportunity to reflect on something I'm thankful for: not being in competition with Ikea for anything. DT reader Geoff [aka The Boston Twin Wrangler], who has been shopping for a...
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NYT Checks In On Pre-Conception Health

According to the New York Times, men just have to avoid paint and giving their future baby mamma the clap. Women, on the other hand, well, infant mortality researchers say that women in the reproductive stage of their lives should...
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Sweet DIY Stair Gate Currently In Testing Phase

And by testing, I mean that it's installed and keeping the designers' kid from tumbling down or escaping up the stairs, depending. Joel & Maria Piela, the dad & mom design team behind Blue Ant Studio, whipped up this...
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November 27, 2006

Whats-His-Name Cops A Feel On Whats-Her-Name

Yeah, I don't really have a category for this photo, but I will say I hope that kid's mom has some disinfecting wipes for his hand. No telling how many people have touched that thing. [img via dt reader...
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Think.No? Think.Hell.Yeah! Norwegian Electric Car Company Keeps Going. And Going. And Going. And--

Think Nordic was bought and shuttered by Ford before almost anyone even knew the world is ending. Now that it's almost too late, some new investors have been found to plug the Norwegian electric car company back in. While...
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Uh, So About That Miscarriage Taboo...

Not to be the unsupportive one pushing people back into the closet of miscarriage silence, or anything, I'm just saying... wow. In The Grip of Nature's Own Form Of Birth Control [nyt]...
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And Gringo Makes Three

Is that an anti-immigrant agenda he's thrusting in that face? Fed up with the dearth of appropriate reading material for his 4-year-old son, Brooklyn Conservative Partry judge John H. Wilson self-published a children's book about illegal immigration titled Hot House...
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News From The Bape Industrial Complex

The little-known, hyper-exclusive, underground, innovative indie design company from Japan known as The Bathing Ape opened a kids store, Bape Kids, in Harajuku last week. Here are some exclusive, staged, pre-opening spy photos, leaked via press release to only...
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Did I Mention We're Back To Diapers 24/7? Must've Slipped My Mind

So the kid's been pretty much a rock star on the toilet training front since the summer, which we figured was our deadline, since she obviously had to be ready to go to school in September, right? Wrong. Toilet training...
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Whoa. Mario Bros. Baby Blanket

Craft Magazine, the knitting-friendly sibling of Make Magazine, has pics of this awesome Mario Brothers baby blanket, along with some howto suggestions and links for converting your images--Nintendo-derived or otherwise--into knitting patterns. As for befriending a master knitter in...
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November 26, 2006

Philip Glass's Other Children's Music

If you're like most people, you thought Philip Glass only composed one piece of music for children: "Happy, Non-offensive, Non-denominational Christmas Play No. 1," which premiered in 1997 at South Park Elementary. As the New York Times reports today, however,...
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"Hipsters-In-Training?" How About "Hipsters In Training Pants"?

Hmm. It seems to me that glockenspiel lullaby covers of punk/rock/hip hop/whatever classics, and actual rockers-turned kid music rockers were two very different things. But in the New York Times' big story about baby rock, they're both just symptoms of...
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New Book Helps You Worry Productively About Green Pregnancy

How can you not love neurotic New Yorkers? Seriously. Either you nod your head vigorously and go, "I know! Me too!" when they give you their paranoid shpiel, or their obsessive worrying about things you barely even thought about makes...
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November 25, 2006

Molded Plywood Week Coming In For A Landing With The Creative Playthings Playtown Airfield

I know it's barely scratched the surface, so the last post of this ad hoc, Molded Plywood Week at DT will be a link-filled roundup of all the molded ply goods and gear that have already been on the...
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Read This Month's Vogue Magazine, Just Be Careful

So I was flipping through my wife's Vogue, trying to help her get out the door by distracting the kid, and so I do an off-the-cuff play-by-play of each page, that is until the kid goes, "Tell me the story...
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November 24, 2006

Sweet, Sweet Alexander Girard Alphabet Blocks

The things you run across in the middle of the night. The ever-cool font and design shop House Industries has partnered with the Alexander Girard estate to create an incredible set of alphabet blocks. The 28-block set features the...
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Thanks To Daddy Types' Advertisers Who Stuff The Turkeys Of Our Lives With Goodness

Looking to ladle the gravy of gratitude from Daddy Types' discerning readership onto the brine-soaked goodness of your company, product, event, or belief system? Advertise on Daddy Types today [well, not today today, because all the slots are full, but...
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Philippe Starck Bottle Brush Looks Vaguely Tree-like, Vaguely Expensive

$27 shipped seems a bit steep for a circa-2001 bottle brush designed by Philippe Starck for Target, even if it is mint-in-box. But then again, this is the only one of these things I've seen turn up on eBay...
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Belgian Ad Shows Limits Of Cry-It-Out

Yes, it's true. Cry-it-out doesn't work as well past age six. This Belgian commercial suggests an alternative way to avoid this scenario, but if you're reading Daddy Types, it's probably already too late for you. Note: If you have...
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Acrobats, Diggers, & Farm Animals: Sweet, Minty Creative Playthings Toys On eBay

Whoa. If you're a fan of the Creative Playthings, but you don't dig your kid playing with pre-chewed toys, I suggest you introduce yourself to Clem 60637 in Chicago. He's an eBay seller who just put up five vintage CP...
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Blocks + Molded Ply = Creative Playthings Arc Curves

Sometime in late 1966, Creative Playthings must've gotten itself a marketing guy, or maybe a lawyer guy, because all the toys that're called things like Thin Arch in the '66 catalogue are called things like Arc-Curves TM in the...
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Bboy Booginsroc Has Ill Moves

The story about how, back in the day, when he was a baby, Frank Lloyd Wright's mother got him a set of Froebel blocks, which helped him develop his sense of architecture, geometry and spatial clarity, is well known. The...
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Capt. Picard Sings The Alphabet

So I'm supposed to tell the kid that San Francisco is the headquarters of Starfleet, the capital of the whole Alpha Quadrant, but that somehow "Zed" overtakes "Zee" in the alphabet of the 24th century? Not on this side...
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November 23, 2006

Thanks

We're taking the day off here at DTHQ, but I wanted to say thanks to everyone who helps make this site such a rewarding, fulfilling, and exciting experience: - to you folks who contribute such great ideas, advice, and...
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I'm Thankful For Modernseed's BroSis Lounge Chair

I'm happy to outsource today's installment of Molded Plywood Week to the NY Times, since their slideshow of kid's gifts conveniently includes designs on my list as well. Eric Pfeiffer's been on a molded ply streak this year, and...
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November 22, 2006

Molded Plywood Cradle By Creative Playthings Totally Rocks

By the next year, 1967, Creative Playthings had changed the copy on their molded plywood crib and stroller to be more gender neutral. But a cradle this awesomely minimalist would rock [umm] for either a boy or a girl,...
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Whoa. Richard McGuire Designed Bedding For Land Of Nod

The out-of-print children's books by New Yorker/PBS Kids illustrator and sampled rap pioneer Richard McGuire got here the other day, and the kid just loves them. Stay tuned for a more complete review. While Googling around for more McGuire info,...
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DT Namewatch #18: Stuffed Edition

Are there any names you're thankful for hearing lately? Send them in to names [at] daddytypes [dot] com: Taavo, archer, haberdasher, barkeep [via observer] Tuuli, a model or something, slightly nsfw [via theapt] McCabe, Warren Beatty Constance, Julie Christie in...
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BabyPlanners Let You Outsource Everything But The Womb

Pregnant but too busy to do anything about it? Why not let the experts at Baby Planners take care of all that annoying stuff like finding and reading pregnancy books, getting gear and furniture and setting up a nursery, finding...
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See If You Can Guess What I Am Now

Normally, the kid is anything but a P-I-G pig, but this morning when she sneezed with her mouth full of banana, she just got guaranteed early admission to Delta house. Two hours later, I just found another chunk six...
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Caitlin Flanagan: Please Don't Care About Me [And My Dismissal From The New Yorker]

As most followers of The New Yorker's parenting beat this year have already figured, Caitlin Flanagan has left the building. Too much book money to count, too much book writin' to do. Also, too much of her last article [in...
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Male Contraceptive Article Ribbed For Your Pleasure

Researchers are closing in on a viable male contraceptive, but major hurdles remain: do men identify too closely with their sperm to give it up, even temporarily? Is this "share the responsibility" thing gonna fly on the dating scene? Are...
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We're Supernannies From The Government, And We're Here To Help, Mum

So apparently Tony Blair convened a "Parenting Stakeholders" seminar at 10 Downing Street yesterday, and all I can find is a 100 references to the government's need to provide more reality TV-like parenting advice. Which would make sense in a...
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November 21, 2006

Mid-Century Swingline Group Kids Furniture By Henry Glass

Molded Plywood Week continues here at Daddy Types, but I should probably just call it Orelandy Week after the mid-century design afficionado, eBay shark, and daddy type who's forgotten more about modern kids design than I've ever known. For...
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Marines Take Free Jesus Dolls, Company Verily Gets Its Publicity Reward

The Lord works in mysterious ways, it's true. But religious toy manufacturers seeking a publicity angle at Christmastime? Not so mysterious. The Marine Reserve's originally turned down the Beverly Hills Teddy Bear Company's offer to render 4,000 free talking Jesus...
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I Was Not Aware That October Was SIDS Awareness Month

All I can figure is that someone from the crib bumper industrial complex must have deleted my email announcement from someone in the sleepsack industrial complex. Anyway, kid sleeps, rests, and hangs on his back. No loose or puffy bedding....
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Victoria Staten Gear Hits Market In Time For Ski Season

Whether you have a farm in Africa at the foot of the Ngong Hills or a cabin in Deer Valley on the way to Stein Eriksen Lodge, you don't have to hide your kid away in the sleeping wing...
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November 20, 2006

DT Namewatch #17: Biblical Edition

Any names you've heard lately make you want to shout, "hosanna"? Proclaim them here, at names [at] daddytypes [dot] com. Colt [via Wikipedia Brown and The Case of The Captured Koala] A C, grandfather, "first name 'A', middle name 'C'....
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Hey, Reverend! I Hear Tango Drives A Bugaboo!

What happens when your 18-month-old post is one of the top Google results for And Tango Makes Three, the children's book about the true story of two male penguins in the Central Park Zoo who hatch and raise an egg...
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NYT: Straight Men Losing Lock On "Slightly More Than A Sperm Donor" Market

Not sure if it's a trend or just an interesting reconfiguration of the family, combined with a largely undefined notion of gay fatherhood, but The New York Times Magazine has a looong article about how some lesbian couples are kids...
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OMFCNG! [Hint: The Last Three Are 'Chocolate Nursing Goddess']

Canadian artist Veronica Stewart's elemental sculpture of a mother nursing her child is available in chocolate. At just under 8 oz. and about three inches high, it would fit nicely in the cup of your hand, though it has...
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I've Never Seen A Creative Playthings Plywood Carriage

The Hobby Horse is in a museum and gets knocked off nationwide, but this beautiful Creative Playthings plywood carriage disappears into oblivion, with barely two Google mentions to rub together? How is that? Wolfgang Sirch's bentwood doll stroller, I...
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November 19, 2006

Muji Plywood Car

I'll get to this awesome Muji molded plywood ride-on car in a minute, which has to be the kick-off of Molded Ply Week at Daddy Types. Beyond Muji and some recent emails, I just got my hands on some...
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November 18, 2006

Most Awesome Muji Christmas Toys Only Available If You Have A Flying Sleigh

Ah, the holidays. It's been a while since we've agonized over the essentially unobtainable awesomeness of Muji products and toys, but with the release of their 2006 Christmas Catalogue, we can start anew. The toy selection includes some simple...
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November 17, 2006

DT Namewatch #16: Blanket Edition

Any interesting names refuse to hide under a blanket for you lately? Send them to names [at] daddytypes [dot] com. Nabila, mom, saved kids below from a fire by throwing them [plus two more] out the window into the neighbors'...
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Mothering Mag Gives Aid & Comfort To Breastfeeding Hippie Who Threatened Our Freedom [Airlines]

First, a correction: The plane had 9 rows, not 13. The flight number was DL6160, but it's a codeshare with Freedom Airlines [!]. But to those who've complained about my hippie terrorist characterization: the kid's name is River, so that...
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Delta: Let's Throw Nursing Momma From The Plane

A Santa Fe family has filed a complaint with the Vermont Human Rights Commission after they were kicked off a Delta Airlines flight from Burlington to NYC when the mom refused to use a blanket to nurse her 22-month-old...
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Q: How/When Do You Work Out Post-Baby?

DT reader Jeff asks a question that we struggle with ourselves. It seems like the first thing to get cut from a busy schedule, where you're being pulled in different directions by work, the kid, family, etc., is the gym....
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Michael Jackson Is Insane, Ch. MMVI

OK, call me dim and uninformed, even though I'm writing a freakin' book on celebrity parenting. But I did not know Michael Jackson actually calls that kid "Blanket." I thought it was just a tabloid nickname. Of course, Blanket...
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November 16, 2006

Opt-Out Revolution Writer Finally Pays Attention, Still Misses Point

It was like the Mommy War equivalent of shooting Archduke Ferdinand. A 2003 NY Times Magazine article about "The Opt-Out Revolution," where some MBA wives with MBA husbands decided not to go back to work after having kids, set off...
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Math Is Hard. Let's Go Shopping.

The kid can count to 20 in one breath, and she can add and subtract numbers up to 4. But every once in a while, it really hits home, the difference between these kind of toddlery parlor tricks and a...
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Peg Perego & Bugaboo: What We Have Here Is A Failure To Communicate

A DT reader who we'll call Matt Damon [not his real name] writes about a problem they've been having with their Peg Perego SIP, one of just two US car seats available with Bugaboo adapters. Turns out the seat won't...
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The Greatest, As In "The Greatest Children's Album EVER EVER"

Ali's always gettin' blamed for things he didn't do. Just because he likes to scrap, and maybe sometimes do [?] people want to blame that man although he wasn't there. Maybe we should take a look; the blame could well...
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Apartment Therapy Now Also Nursery Therapy

Congratulations to Maxwell the Apartment Therapy guy and his wife Sara Kate, for scoring a big NY Times article [!] on how they successfully completed the renovation [!!] on their 265 sf apartment [!!!] before the baby [!!!!] came. The...
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November 15, 2006

DT Namewatch #15: Pronounced Edition

Tord, which may, unfortunately, rhyme with word. Dutch designer taking over Target at the moment [toordboontje.com] Jaime Hayon "(pronounced 'Hi-me Hi-on')", Spanish designer discovered while searching for how to pronounce Tord [via guardian] Mare "(pronounced Mah-Ray which is Italian...
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Hothouse Kids: When Smart Kids Are Born To Dumb Parents

Let's be real about something: Einstein was a freak. Do you really want your kid to be spelling bee-winning, college-at-12-going, forgets-to-eat-for-3-days-zoning freak? No. So put down that DVD and that womb music enhancement system--which don't work anyway--and read Alissa Quart's...
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Ah, Jolly Good, Then. The Parenting Endgame Of UK Cradle-to-Grave Surveillance Comes Into View

Well, color me enlightened. And forgive my ignorance-fuelled disapproval from afar of the UK government's plan to create a massive database to track children, their behavio(u)r, and their caregivers from birth. If only you had explained at the outset, Lord...
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Abstract Riding Animals Available In Foam [Soon], Plywood [Not So Soon]

Last month the Belgian foam furniture maker [?] Feek threw some of its coming-soon Animools into the kids' holding room at Interieur06, a big design trade show. They're abstract animal shapes made out of laminated foam that's suitable and...
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November 14, 2006

Dude, What's That On Your Shirt?

"Bullseye" "He shoots, he scores." "Look what I did." "My boys can swim." "The man behind the belly" At $38+shipping, daddy shirts from 2chix.com may cost twice as much as a "daddy type" t-shirt, but then again, they have an...
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DT Namewatch #14: $2^8 Edition

If you come across any names that make bonus season especially pleasant, send them in to: names [at] daddytypes [dot] com: Ranaan, Goldman Sachs partner, drives Honda Odyssey [!] Gustave, legendary senior partner, Goldman Sachs. Middle name of said partner's...
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Because So Much Is Riding On Your Art

I was all excited to post this sculpture by Juan Cespedes, a great Chilean artist who references cinematic and digital imagemaking using the lowest-tech possible. [Cespedes' show at Andrew Kreps Gallery in NYC just closed last weekend.] But then...
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Baby Roadies: Diaper Genie II Doesn't Stink

How bummed am I that the kid gives up diapers just in time to deny me the joy of filling a Diaper Genie II? Uh, not that bummed, to be quite honest. But as a fervent student of diaper disposal...
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Niiice. Pristine Creative Playthings Townhouse On eBay

This Creative Playthings Townhouse is in amazing, apparently unplayed-with condition, and it comes complete with seven molded plastic rooms of furniture. [Huh? Great way to get around the "124-piece set of choking hazards," but how creative can your play...
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EXCLUSIVE: INTERNATIONAL BREASTFEEDING ICON SMACKDOWN

EXCLUSIVE!!! JUST HOURS AFTER DADDYTYPES REPORTED ON THE NEW MOTHERING MAGAZINE INTERNATIONAL BREASTFEEDING ICON [IBI], A CONTROVERSY IS ALREADY BREWING. ACCORDING TO THE DRUDGE REPORT, MATT DAIGLE'S WINNING IBI DESIGN WAS COPIED FOR A PHOTO IN MARIE-CLAIRE MAGAZINE OF ABC...
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November 13, 2006

Daddy Type Wins Breastfeeding Icon Design Contest

While it's my third favorite icon designwise, I have to admit, at-home dad Matt Daigle's design did have a couple of advantages over my top choices: For one thing, it was actually submitted to Mothering Magazine's international breastfeeding icon design...
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Parappa Plush Toys Are Mostly Sold Out

Last winter, the kid got a pink cashmere acorn cap that my mom knitted for her. It's really plain, awesome, in fact, but the kid didn't quite take to it until very recently. The last few months, she's been...
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The DT Elmo Nursery Project

Sure, you're sick of Elmo now, but maybe the problem's not Elmo, but you? Maybe if you had a better attitude... Maybe fighting the Elmo juggernaut is the wrong approach, a needless waste of parental energy. Maybe we need...
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November 12, 2006

VW Touran: "Finally, It's Great To Be A Dad [In Europe.]"

The newly redesigned VW Touran is a Golf-based 5- or 7-seat mini-MPV that's been getting great reviews in Europe. But since no one in Malibu drives such a thing, VW's execs know there's no market in the US, so don't...
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DT Namewatch #13: Models & Bottles

Agyness Jaunel Trace, some models [via style.com] Kai-Uwe [ex-CEO of the other DT, Deutsche Telekom. Not related: kayui means "itchy" in Japanese. [via nyt] Jobe, who unfortunately lives up to his name [via nyt] Sam Penny Oscar [what, no...
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November 11, 2006

Father, Flavin, Flickr

Just stumbled across this photo of a dad and his daughter with one of my favorite Dan Flavin installations at the MCA in Chicago. sierraromeo's photostream on flickr [flickr]...
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The Animations Of Oskar Fischinger: 90% Kid-Friendly

Richard McGuire is not the only fan of Oskar Fischinger's animated films, but as with McGuire's own influence, there's much more I didn't know. Fischinger was singularly focused on integrating music and visual art. And he created the abstract masterpiece...
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Don't Let PBS Kids Blow Your Mind Away, Baby

Maybe it's a problem of overfamiliarity causing design blindness, but if I relax a bit and just watch, some of the graphic design on the kids' TV channels is actually pretty nice. The Noggin graphic identity, for example, with the...
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Q: Can They Finish The Prefab Before The Baby Comes?

Well, it's not strictly prefab, just rapidfab; but they are definitely expecting a baby. The architect duo Linda Taalman & Alan Koch designed the iT House, a sleek, bolt-together aluminum-and-glass system, to be easy and quick to construct. Their...
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November 10, 2006

Daddy Types Advertisers Give You The Shirts Off Their Backs

Thanks to the advertisers who, well, they fill our websurfing vision with interesting and useful and informative offers for new dads and their kin, that's what they do: Vincent, cool shoes for kids from Sweden, now, finally, available in the...
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Noggin Renting Jack, Big Music, Laurie Berkner To The Highest Bidder

Now Modern Day Dad's the real expert on this, but I do know that the kid will, from time to time, ask for Jack's Big Music Show by name. And since it's about 99% less annoying than The Wiggles,...
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No Way, Metrodad Is My Kid's Father, Too

This explains a lot, but it also opens a host of new questions. Baby. Still, it's a relief to finally know why she's turned into a TV-addicted, fartaholic diva lately. 5-1, I guess she really is my daughter [metrodad]...
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BlackHawk Damn! The BlackHawk Tactical Battle Bag

DT reader Eric tips the rest of us off to a site you law enforcement and Close Quarters & Clandestine dads out there already know [way to keep a secret, Eric]: BlackHawk.com. If I were to order a diaper...
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Bugs. Why'd It Have To Be Bugs?

The kid's been having nightmares pretty regularly these days. This week, it's been bugs. She'd wake up in the middle of the night, crying, "I don't like spiders!" And my wife'd have to go in and shoo the spiders away...
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It's Dutch's Prerogative

Whoa. I-- whoa. Let me just go on record and say that if it means more tours de forces demonstrations like this where Dutch gets to show off his mastery of Bobby Brown lyrics, I hope the man keeps on...
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November 9, 2006

Fadiddle Navigates The Hip-Cute Minefield

It's a classic story: new parents with a design sense can't find clothes they'd actually like to put on their kid, so they start designing stuff themselves. Fadiddle is a line of kid- and baby-clothes that somehow manage to...
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Maxpedition Fatboy S-Type Versipack: Changing Pad Sold Separately

Here's a tip from DT reader John: When it comes to my son and traveling around town I've taken a very minimalist approach. I'm a stay at home dad and have been using a Maxpedition Fatboy sling to carry...
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Skg: Unique & V. Expensive. Found: Uni & Vintage

I first saw Uni & Vintage, Christine Ekodo-Delaunay's line of extremely limited-production kids' clothes, at Bubble NYC last summer. She started U&V in 2005, and apparently sold it largely through word of mouth and/or by walking it into a...
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SkyMaul Stroller Mower Looks Like A Stokke

Unlike most stroller mowers where the child rides down near the ground, and is exposed to a stream of grass clippings, deafening noise, and, oh yeah, whirling blades of death, the DANGER Stroller Mower places the kid up high,...
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You've Come A Long Way, Baby Mama

It's always something. In Greenwich in the 70's, it was Valium-and-key parties. In the Valley in the 80's, it was mesclun parties and environmental sickness. In the 90's in South Central it was 40's-n-shorties. Women trapped alone at home with...
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DT Namewatch #12: Not Boogie Nights Edition

Anemona [via nyt] Kaligraphy Hogan [both via jen, who reads the birth announcements] Gracie Callie Telly Wavey Dulcie Ruthie [Julianne Moore character names]...
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November 8, 2006

More C-Class Spyshots: Apparently, The C Is For Civic

A blog on Edmunds.com somehow ended up with spyshots of the 2008 Mercedes C-Class from just before someone starts covering them with blackout camo tape. They look kind of like the new Honda Civic, which is about as high praise...
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Pixel: Gerhard Richter By Way Of Zutano

We're big Zutano fans, have been since our first gifts arrived before the kid was born. Their prints are a little cutesy sometimes, but they're also modern enough to be considered a staple. I got to meet the Zutano...
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Tanned, Triumphant, Tropical Tot Traveller Tells Tale

When we last heard from Shawn, he was pale and wondering if tropical vacations were a thing of the past now that he had a kid. So as the crappy NY weather turns our hearts to the Caribbean, it's a...
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Design ME Some Modern Utopian Soviet Textiles, Comrade

You say you want a revolution? Well, yeah, if it means deporting the bunnies and the ducks to the gulag and decking the kid out in adorable prints of the Motherland's glorious steamrollers and tractors, well, paint me read and...
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H&M, 34th Street - NO, NO

Dudes have stores across the street from each other, with children's sections as big as a freakin' house, but they don't even have restrooms? WTF. So unless you want to teach him about hanging one over the atrium balcony--and at...
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November 7, 2006

Whoa, Lu/Yao-Liu Woe

So two families in Guangxi are suing a hospital for mixing up their babies 15 years ago. The Lu family ended up getting divorced, their kid was so different from them, which makes sense, because he'd been switched at birth...
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This Playdough Recipe Is Better Than My Mother's

I drew a line around the kid's preschool, blogcontent-wise, but I don't see any reason to keep their play dough recipe a secret. It was our turn to make the dough for class this week, and my wife cranked this...
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What Could Fix This Almost-Cool Ikea Blimp Minimalist Toddler Bed?

There's a rule about overdoing it somewhere that says when you get dressed to go out, you put everything on, and then you take one thing off. Too bad the Ikea designers who made this little bed don't know...
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Slimy Has Two Daddies

First Bert & Ernie, now Oscar's 'roommate'. You don't need to see a dozen beautifully restored brownstones and a coffee bar to know that Sesame Street is gentrifying, but fast. [image via tvnewser, who's got the story, too]...
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Vintage Creative Playthings Wood Blocks Two Ways on eBay

Unlike with some of their more unusual toys or exceptional designs, you can find pretty sweet modern equivalents to the vintage, tabletop-scale, wood blocks from Creative Playthings. Still, if you're a purist, there are two fine-looking sets of these...
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Amazon Throws Out A Quick $100/$20 Offer For Toys&Games

Ah, back in the good old days [until Spring], Amazon used to run these sweet promotions on diapers, where a $50-70 order would score you a $20-30 gift certificate a few weeks down the road. Well, the diaper promos seem...
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November 6, 2006

Maybe A Mid-sized Mercedes? Spyshots Of The 2008 GLK & C-Class

I have to say, I love the look of the Mercedes C-Class wagons [which, naturally, they stopped selling in the US in 2005], and I hate hate hate everything about the new C-Class coupe except the headlights. So even though...
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DT Namewatch #11: Hope You Guessed My Name Edition

Have you heard a name that stuck with you for some reason? Throw it against the DT wall and see if it sticks here, too: names [at] daddytypes [dot] com James Leroy Augustin Jagger Georgia May Ayeesha Jagger Gabriel Luke...
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Comments Also Open For People NOT Selling Drugs Online

Daddy Types has been basking in praise ["Great site! Check out my ringtones!"] all weekend, thanks. And there have even been people other than Bitchlady talking about things other than online casinos, too. So if you don't see a comment...
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Daddy Types Advertisers Are Iridescent Nuggets For Entertaining Your Kid

Thanks to Daddy Types' real live advertisers who swim before our very eyes last week, offering us a true departure from the conventional and the make-believe: The 92nd Street Y Wonderplay program, a universe of classes and programs for families...
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Whoa. Inquarium, The In-Crib Aquarium, From Creative Playthings

Just when I think I'd gotten a handle on the whole Creative Playthings vintage toy thing, I get an email about this: The Creative Playthings Inquarium, The In-Crib Aquarium. Here's what the box says:The newest crib toy--a true departure...
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November 3, 2006

Oeuf Mittenwear So Cute It Gives Me The Shivers

Oeuf may be famous for their bouncer and their sweet crib, but from the get-go, the company also had funny ["haha"] knits. Like a combination hood and dickey [sp, dickie?]. But when I saw their new alpaca pieces at ABC...
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Wow. This Alfa Romeo 159 Wagon Rocks. And Is Coming To The US.

One of my first favorite cars was the Alfa Romeo boattail spider. And now one of my favorite Wagons I'd Think Of Buying That Will Actually Be Available In The US is the Alfa Romeo 159 Q4 Sportwagon, which...
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Thank You For Coming To Loew's [Without A Baby]

Fortunately, Loew's/AMC Theatres is "an industry leader in innovation," otherwise one might think cancelling the Reel Moms AM movie screening programs was a dick move, instead of the obviously forward-thinking and customer-friendly innovation it so obviously is. Any MBA's out...
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November 2, 2006

DT Namewatch #10: Just A Sperm Donor Edition

"Funny you should ask, Honey. We named you after a woman in Canada who gave her baby away without telling the daddy" may not sit too well with the kid, but you have to admit, the name caught your attention....
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Celebrity Dad Is Funny, Makes Finals In New Yorker Contest

Whoa, check that out. Eric Sagalyn from MoreDiapers.com is a finalist in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest this week. Usually it just breaks my heart to reach that last page, but whaddya, know, Eric's actually funny. I think he...
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Nume, Nume, Nume, Nume Fruit Salad-Colored Kid's Furniture

The Italian kids design house Nume says their projects "seek out pure forms, without added decorations. In their essential nature, such forms stimulate the imagination of children and develop their expressive freedom." [And in Italy, of course, a soccer...
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Canadian Adoption Mess: Dad Wants To Keep His Kid, Money

There was a story a few months back about the US's confusing and misleading patchwork of laws covering a biological father's rights when the mother puts a kid up for adoption. And since Canada like totally copies us every time,...
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JAMA: Serotonin Breathing Reflex Abnormality May Be Related To SIDS

A new study in based on autopsies of 41 infants who died of SIDS and other causes shows that a serotonin abnormality in the brain stem that triggers breathing reflexes may be involved. This breathing problem fits with the prevailing...
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November 1, 2006

Atama Wa Dotchi? 9Brand's Cool Bilingual Picture Book

This great-looking little book is the first from 9Brand [pronounced/translated as Kyu-jirushi in Japanese], an awesome bag and soft goods maker, and writer/illustrator, Keito Seta. Atama wa Dotchi?/Which is your head? is about some kind of friendly vegetarian creature...
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"I Got A Rock!" Or, Not Quite Getting The Halloween Concept

I wasn't there [work], but the kid and the wife went to the 'burbs, Grandma's neighborhood, to do a bit of trick-or-treating last night. It was the first time. [Call us sticks in the mud, but we didn't dress her...
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Dad Makes Life Casts Of Baby Hands, Feet, Unidentified Local Man's Abs

Dad Martin Kern began Magic Custard after creating some life casts of his son's hands and feet. Now he's working that in a West London studio, in a "world-renowned Magic Custard Mobile Unit," in the Mothercare [sic] flagship, all over....
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