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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