Choke-Proofing Your Child-Proofing: Outlet Cover Edition

There are a couple of solutions for making electrical outlets safer for mobile kids. Especially when bite-sized outlet covers can be nearly as hazardous as the sockets themselves. In DC, the real electrical outlet threat is in the living room,...
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Headfake Your Medicine-Spitting Kid With The Kidzmed Pacifier

It may look like a harmless pacifier, but when you push the plunger on the Kidz-Med Medicine Dispenser--BAM!--the medicine hits the back of the kid's throat, bypassing his tongue, and most all his spitting reflexes. So if the trick...
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Whatever Happened To Rosemary's Berceuse?

When the definitive history of wicker rocking chair/cradle combos is written, it looks like the incep date'll need to be pushed back a decade or so. Artist/designers [1] Elisabetta Gonzo and Alessandro Vicari created Rosemary's Berceuse, a combination rocking...
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"Fun On Wheels" By Stephan Gip: Furniture In Disguise

This might just be cool enough to make up for the high chair. Swedish architect Stephan Gip is credited with the 1962 design for the all-wood, no-tray, trapezoidal stacking high chair that we wipe off a little every day...
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Matali Crasset Is A One-Woman Ikea Kids Department

That desk Matali Crasset did for Balouga turns out to be the tip of her kid-friendly design iceberg. At the Stedelijk in Amsterdam Hertogenbosch [?] there's a whole museumful of playful, sherbet-colored furniture and architecture in an exhibition called...
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Vids4Tots

Dutch has taken a stab at it by assembling a rather long and esoteric list of video clips. Daddy Types has gone about it piecemeal, just throwing a NatGeo African watering hole cam up here, a Patt Smith there, a...
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To The Jews, The Gays, The Dads, Mazeltov!

During Hannukah, DT reader Marjorie became an aunt when her brother and his partner adopted a baby girl. [Namewatch Alert: Shirley, family name]. She wrote about the naming ceremony, known as Simchat Bat, that Shirley's dads and family crafted for...
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