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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Posted by greg at 9:44 PM | Comments (0)

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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Posted by greg at 9:19 PM | Comments (0)

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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Posted by greg at 9:52 AM | Comments (2)

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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