Daddy Types: March 2007 Archives

March 2007 Archives

March 30, 2007

BuyBuy Baby Bought By Bed Bath & Beyond

What the headline says. Bed Bath & Beyond [NASD: BBBY] announced last week that they had agreed to an all-cash acquisition of buybuy Baby [NADA, baby, they're privately held] for $67 million + $19 million debt retirement. It should be...
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Steve And/Or Steven-Lookin' Onesie* From Enfant Terrible

This chocolate-colored Onesie-like bodysuit by Enfant Terrible is the closest thing I've seen to an "I Hog The Ground" costume. Sure, the little flocked creature on there is supposed to be a teddy bear, but though the belly's a...
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Now That's A Baby Box: Cardboard Rolling Crib By Album di Famiglia

One of the absolutely most unabashedly beautiful, minimalist-but-not-too baby clothes designers around is Album di Famiglia. We found their newborn stuff just as the kid was growing out of the tiny available selection at Estelle, a store on 6th...
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Boost Booster Seat: LikeAYellowPages

Fred & Friends are the design fiends behind the awesome little chopstick-trainer Chopstick Kids. Once again, inspiration has struck at the Fredtable, as witnessed by Boost, a firm-yet-soft foam booster cushion shaped like the Yellow Pages [but with butt-width...
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The Checker Station Wagon: SubUrban Family Truckster

Can America's best-known taxicab bring happiness to a suburban family while masquerading as a station wagon? The question is not nearly as facetious as it sounds. - Jim Whipple, Popular Mechanics, Sept. 1962Oh, I wouldn't be so sure, Jim. First...
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So What Makes/Breaks An Infant/Toddler Day Care Setup?

Whatryagonnado? Here's a quote from Emily Bazelon's article about what the results of the latest NICHD day care study really do and don't mean[study author Margaret] Burchinal points out that on average, day care for infants and toddlers is worse...
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Fearless Slate Speaks Truth To Day Care Study

Over at Slate, Emily Bazelon unpacks the coverage of that long-term NIH day care study to figure out why all the media types are so down on day care, especially since the real results of the study show that childcare...
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If Found, Please Return This USB Drive & The Kid Wearing It

A geekdad adapted an auto-run software trick for adding an "If you're reading this, this USB stick is lost. Please return it to me at..." message to a USB memory stick into a kidtracking solution for the family vacation at...
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March 29, 2007

Eh-Oh! The Real World: Teletubbyland

This is the story of ten vaguely familiar-looking-but-unplaceable and desperate-for-attention strangers with undiagnosed narcissist personality disorder picked to visit a pop-up store in a limply decorated loft, have their picture taken with four even more obscure and desperate NPD's...
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Hey, Chrysler! I Gotchyer Backseat TV Right Here!

You want to throw down over TV in the backseat, Chrysler? Time and place, baby, time and place. What, you think I'm not Sirius? How about right now on eBay. When it comes to backseat entertainment, the Scion xB is...
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Live TV In The Backseat Of A Minivan? Siriusly?

So this is how it's gonna be? Well, bring it on. Sirius and Chrysler will offer live Backseat TV programming from Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, and Cartoon Network for $20/month. Non-stop corporate merchotainment in a minivan. Holy crap, people, it's...
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Ioline Crib From Kalon Studios: Angeleno-Berliner Werkstatte

Yow, it's like the sweet bamboo crib market is growing by a foot a day. Kalon Studios is Michaele Simmering and Johannes Pauwen, a mom-dad team based in Los Angeles and Berlin [and I thought our NY-DC commute was...
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Celery Lullaboo Cribs = Crunchy Goodness

Time was when all a man could do was lament the shortage of sweet, modernist bamboo crib options. Then when his years-long wish is finally fulfilled, what's he do? I feel like that guy in the Shawshank Redemption, the...
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Whoops: Sample Sale At Netto Collection TODAY, 3/29-30

Yeah, sorry about that. Gmail just kills me sometimes. Netto Collection is having a sample sale starting today--Thursday, March 29 and Friday, March 30--where floor samples of furniture and accessories will be up to 60% off. From what I...
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March 28, 2007

Vilebrequin Dad-Son Swimsuits: The Official Hamptons Uniform For Doughy I-Bankers

The official selling point of Vilebrequin's swim trunks is that they have a unique vent system that prevents unattractive air bubbles from forming when you get into the swimming pool or ocean. The reasons the colorfully printed, traditionally cut...
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"I was like really high up, so the baby landed right on the seat."

Said Lisa Tauer, 28, a manager at Fashion Bug in Ashland, WI, who was talking about the front seat of their Dodge Neon, where she was perched as her husband Jereme, 29, was driving to the hospital. Jereme Tauer said...
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JPMA's Mod Cat Bounce, Or Making $14 The Hard Way

So the JPMA show's coming up next month in Orlando, the last one, since the trade organization ceded the show business to the much bigger Las Vegas rival, the ABC Kids Expo. But even if they're crying on the inside,...
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No Sushi, No Beef, No Sushi, No Beef

First, let me take back the headline. Sure, a University of Rochester study just showed that the sons of women who ate a lot of beef during pregnancy showed sperm count decreases of as much as 25%, which researchers linked...
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Sweet Creative Playthings Slot-Together Ply Noah's Ark

In their heyday, Creative Playthings had a lot of wonderful toys of their own design, but they also distributed products from around the world. Those classic wood trucks were from some dude in Finland, for example. And this awesome,...
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If You're Receiving, Then You're Not Thinking About Syphillis

Can't decide whether to file this one in the Never-on-Bloggingbaby folder, or the Front-Page-of-StrollerDerby folder. Or maybe the health risks to the fetus of extra-marital blowjobs during pregnancy are significant enough to warrant their own folder. From Dan Savage's...
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Alternadad: The Comic Adaptation In The Voice

I am so cool. I am so cool. Everybody loves me. I am so cool. The cartoonists need a few extra weeks to formulate their responses, I guess. Neal Pollack's Alternadad gets a cartoon review from Ward Sutton in the...
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March 27, 2007

Dollhouse Hot Tub & Weight Set By Ryan's Room

What is Ryan's Room, and why would I want my kid playing cocktails in the hot tub with dolls that have removable swim suits? Considering that they also have something as random as a dollhouse weight set--free weights only,...
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My Silly Pony: Honestly, Hermes, I Expected More From You

I just stumbled across this photo from around Christmas, when we went into Aix-en-Provence for the market. We got separated in the antiques section, and so the kid and I chose the most obvious rallying point--the Hermes store--and started...
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Bad American Girl Place

I didn't know what American Girl Place is before the kid was born, and she has no idea what it is now. It's a freaky, doll-centered, corporate-driven cult, a Club Libby Lu for Stepford Children, whose parents' only claim to...
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It's My Kid In A Box

Over at GearAbility, Marty has the first in a series of posts and photos about being raised in--and then raising her own daughter in--an Air Crib. Marty's family was friends with B.F. Skinner, the famous Harvard psychologist who invented the...
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I'm Gonna Guess His Name Is Oedipus

From the Minneapolis Star Tribune: Minneapolis police say that Detrick D. Jiles [24] told officers that the boy [2], whose name police did not release, had taken the gun from his mother's purse and fired it at Jiles... [Police...
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AP To Paralyzed Guy: You Want Hard? Try Writing About Electroejaculation

Even when the benefits to getting the word out are obvious, you have to wonder sometimes how some news stories come [sic] about. For example, this almost hilariously uncomfortable AP story about how most men with spinal cord injuries can...
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March 26, 2007

Now That's A Fire! NIH Study Throws PR Match On Lighter Fluid-Soaked Childcare BBQ

Seriously, Society for Research In Child Development, is there a panel discussion at your Biennial Meeting--which just happens to kick off this week--about the effects on childcare attitudes and policies of issuing press releases for an ongoing, 16-year study that...
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March 25, 2007

M Is For Metal, Mate: Aussie Rocker Alphabet Book

I try to keep an open mind about things, but it can be really hard. When I flew to a friend's wedding in Minnesota, who was sitting across the aisle from me? Garrison Keillor, of course. So what do...
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Tinkerbell LED Suitcase: I Don't Want To Be 'Trend-Right'

I don't know why the idea of a kid-sized pink and green vinyl Tinkerbell suitcase studded with LED's never bothered me before. Actually I do know why: because the merest possibility of the existence of a blinking fairy suitcase...
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March 23, 2007

Daddy Types Advertisers Think Your Manboobs Look Fine

A hearty shoutout to the advertisers over >>> there >>> who help us with the kids--and keep our manracks firm, if not perky. If you want to get the attention of new dads quicker'n a cold breeze across a t-shirt,...
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CPSC Issues Recall For 100,000 Dad-Colored Infantino SlingRiders

There's one less option available for combatting against babywearer manboobs. The CPSC has announced a recall for about 100,000 Infantino SlingRider baby carriers. Apparently, the plastic strap adjuster can break and drop your kid on his head. Seriously, it's...
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Maoma: Plush-Meets-Finnegan's Wake. In Holland

Sure, I'd like to wean my kid from Dora with some cool indie plush, you say, but what's the diff? The backstories of American indie toys are usually about as deep and complex as a Chinese zodiac placemat. ["Wage...
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Mary Blair Book? Golden. Verse? Not So Much.

I guess it should be a sign for something when the frenzy over a children's book is coming just from the artists. Such is the case with The Golden Book of Little Verses, which the Hollywood Animators Archive calls "one...
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March 22, 2007

Wear Bears: Bear Daddy & Son Dolls From MoMA Store

Apparently, cubwearing doesn't cause this foot-tall, crocheted daddy bear doll any bearboob trouble at all. As for taking a whizz, I imagine he does that in the woods, too. But I can't find any reference to the credited designer,...
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Does This Baby Carrier Make My Manboobs Look Big?

In search of a way to carry his kid Bubba without straining his back too much, Chicago area at-home dad Howard Ludwig decided to check out a babywearing seminar at the local library. But unless you count a bunch of...
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Plush Squid Is Bigger Than All Y'all

As we learned with giant Ugly Dolls, the line between plush toy and plush furniture is somewhere around six feet. And as this giant squid shows us, the line between plush furniture and total plush domination is about 15...
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Unbelievable Headlines! Gay Uncles And Sperm Switcheroos

Which of these stories is more headscratching? I think we need a baffle-off: 1] Is Yoya at risk of losing its core target market?? A gay uncle in the fashion industry [punchline writes self] shops Yoya, the West Village temple...
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I Think My Water Crackers Have Broken!

Not possessing a uterus myself, I confess, I'm stumped. Anyone able to help a lady out with her party planning?"Hi I Have just had a baby and brought my placenta home to make placenta pate i am trying to...
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March 21, 2007

Re: Crazy Writers And The Consumerist Grupocalypse

Civic life is hard, let's go shopping: So I'm waiting for Benjamin Barber, the guy who wrote Jihad vs McWorld, who's about to talk to WNYC's Brian Lehrer about his new book with the parental-attention-grabbing title, Consumed: How Markets...
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Beck Sketchel Diaper Bag, Beck Stickers, Beck Beck Beck Beck Beck

Beck loves the artists to do his album covers. He collaborated with a friend, Jeremy Blake, on a previous album, and on his latest release, The Information, he and twenty graphic/street/sticker artists from around the world put together various...
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Embedded Razor Blade Makes First Years Sleeper Extra Close, But Less Secure

On their way home from the hospital Ted, a new dad in Wisconsin, and his new mom/fiancee stopped by Target to pick up a First Years Close & Secure Sleeper for the kid. I'll let Ted's email to Consumerist...
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Kickin' It Foldschool: DIY Cardboard Kids Furniture

Awesome. Foldschool is a series of free, downloadable patterns for making kids furniture out of cardboard. It's the work of Bern designer Nicola Stäubli, who seems be channelling the best aspects of the light-footprint DIY vibe of Papanek &...
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Kids These Days

Growing up Mormon, we knew an above-average number of large families, up to the "Hey, now you can field your own football team!" variety. On a completely unrelated note, here's a candy bar commercial from England. [youtube via neatorama]...
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March 20, 2007

Consumer Reports Slams Consumer Reports For Flawed Car Seat Report

The car seat world freaked out a couple of months ago when Consumer Reports announced that 10 out of 12 major US car seat models didn't perform well on more stringent crash tests required for new cars. Then just two...
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"But Daddy, I NEED To Watch It Again."

Oops. I made the mistake of inviting the kid over to watch this Chris Ware animation, which was released as a preview to the new This American Life TV show that starts Thursday on Showtime. I figured, cartoons, cute...
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Yes, Bears Were Harmed In The Making Of These Photographs

Brooklyn artist [redundant, I know] Kent Rogowski flayed some helpless teddy bears, turned them inside out, and then restuffed them, sending his creations back out into the world as hideous, mutilated mutants. But not before photographing them and binding...
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Crimson Ghost, Pacified: Little Ruler Still Rules

Damn, Little Ruler is just awesome, season in and season out. I was never a big Misfits fiend, but my heart goes out to the punk metalhead dads who have to choose between a little Thomas t-shirt and an...
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Soho House: If You Have To Ask The Address..., 6th Floor - NO

Just use the pool table in the game room. To their credit, though, no tabs of E visible on the floor...
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Boy, Does The Kid Love Her Magna-Tiles

I've been meaning to write about Magna-Tiles sooner, but frankly, we've been too busy playing with Magna-Tiles. She's playing with them right now. The kid had a playdate a few weeks back, and the other kid had a 32-piece...
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But They Would Call Him Zachary

What an "NPR-nik" told the Boston Globe about Zack, a new news show they're hoping will reach a younger, 25-44 year-old, audience: "We thought Zack is exactly the kind of name NPR staffers would give their male children." Public Radio...
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March 19, 2007

Ducduc Hunting In The Meadowlands: 70% Off, No Waiting

Even if they wished it were wabbit season around the web last week, it was definitely ducduc season yesterday when I stopped by the DWR Annex in Secaucus, The Meadowlands, New Jersey. Right there in the window, they had a...
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Free To Blow My Freakin' Mind: Free To Be...You And Me

Holy Shel Silverstein! The kid picked The Giving Tree for the first time this morning. After I stopped crying, I went online to see what the hell is up with that boy, who was miserable his whole life, despite everything...
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The Hotel Teletubbies: You Can Check Out Any Time You Want, But You Can Never Leave

First, TMX Elmo, now the Teletubbies. One day after the revolution, citizen parents will recognize the late 1990's as the beginning of the New Dark Ages of kidsploitation. But for now, the marketing and licensing overlords cling tight to power...
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March 18, 2007

Japan's Favorite Out&Proud Elephant Has Art Exhibition, Goods Sale

Elmer is definitely, 100% not gray. He's not quite flamboyant, but he is as rainbow-colored as the bumper sticker on any Subaru, and just as proud. He's so cute, you'd have to be a cranky, old ogre from Minnesota...
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March 16, 2007

Opt-Out Myth-Information

That tiny sound you hear, finally, is a tree falling, chopped down and turned into paper that carries news of the longstanding shortcomings in how the media--and hence, policymakers and corporations--completely misframe the issues of moms and the workplace. The...
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Don't Be Fooled By Baby Gloomy Bear's Cuteness

The whole point of Gloomy Bear is that he grows up to maul and eat humans. The fact that he's cute as a baby is just a way of getting your kid to let his guard down, then one...
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Baby Hairy Bertoia Chair By Douglas Homer

You know how hilarious mid-century modern design aficionados get when they party. Lounging on the flokati rug, passing the hookah across that Eames surfboard table, getting silly with the puns... And then they wake up the next morning going,...
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March 15, 2007

Flautist Beatboxes The Sesame Street Theme

If you've searched for "Sesame Street" on YouTube lately, you've probably already seen Greg Pattillo's beatbox flute rendition of The 'Street theme. With 430,000 views right now, it makes him the most famous flautist in the world since James...
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It's As If Tom Brady Was Playing Pop Warner

A couple of days ago, dt reader Monica, inspired by "Irish twins," coined a term that, I think we all agree, must catch on immediately:Brady Twins n. plural: Babies born within nine months of one another and sharing the same...
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KFed's A Poet And He Didn't Know It

Nothing against the fine, whimsical work coming out of MaryJack Studios, mind you, which is perfect for nurseries of every type and decor. But I gotta say, I'm baffled by the very notion that having your product appear in...
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Young Milan: Chicks Go Crazy When Dey See My Wip

Freaky freaky freaky freaky freaky Freaky freaky freaky freaky The WIP Metro was designed by the Milan-based Edoardo Perri in conjunction with WIP, historically a manufacturer of aluminum and alloy sporting equipment. [They created the first all-metal tennis racket...
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Muji Music Box Mashup

So literally, as I'm reading about how a congressman from Pittsburgh cited the artistic value of mashups, DJ Drama's mixtapes, and Girl Talk's sampling, it turns out the kid has wound up both her Muji music boxes at once,...
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Creative Playthings Rainbow Twirler Hanging [sic] Toy

It was great in the Sixties, man, all flowers and rainbows. Running naked in the grass, little babies cooing and playing with their feet. And then The Man came along in 1973 and started laying a lot of white...
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Fabulous Eames Child's Chair Comes Out Of Closet, Goes Straight To eBay

I love that the description of this pristine, vintage, molded ply chair starts out, "you are bidding on a child's chair designed by charles eames in 1946." Because with the bid currently at $1,525 and the reserve price still...
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March 14, 2007

Don't Hold Your Breath, Kid

So we've noticed lately, maybe for a few months now, the kid holds her breath a lot. Then she gasps/breathes kind of loudly. It's the same breathing pattern you hear while pounding a sippy cup, maybe with slightly shorter intervals....
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You Will Gladly Pay $30 More On Thursday Than For A Bugaboo Today

If you're considering buying a Bugaboo for your nanny, then $20 or $30 means nothing to you. The cost of a bowl of granola at your power breakfast at the Regency, which you never see the bill for anyway. For...
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Neiman Marcus Shoppers Are Very Good To The Help

Very, very good. See the closeup below. The fullsized add is in the daddytypes flickr pool....
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TreeHugger So Excited About Diaper-Free Babies, They Pee Their Pants

Well, almost. They DO have a very handy roundup of Elimination Communication links, articles, and online resources, though. Potty Whispering: More on Diaper/Nappy Free Babies [treehugger]...
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Holy Smokes, Why Is This $300 Sunshine Carseat Only $170??

The Sunshine Radian 80 carseat is probably the strongest car seat on the market. It's made from steel like an aircraft seat, not from plastic like a Happy Meal toy. It's also narrower on the outside while providing comparable...
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Garrison Keillor Perpetuates Annoying Stereotypes

Garrison Keillor has always been a dick, no news there. If it didn't mean he'd just spend more time in New York, I'd be calling for Minnesotans to drop the nice and run him out of town once and for...
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The Non-Expert's Guide To Baby Naming

Before delivering the main course, a 3-columned table for constructing a baby name "fit for tracking by the police or private collection agencies," TMN's Non-Expert offers some baby naming appetizers. Here are some categories she suggests exploring: American Gladiator names:...
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An Elephant Never Forgets, Either

The kid's been freaking us out lately with her vise-like memory. On the way to Bubble with me Sunday morning, she asked if the lady with the white balloons was going to be there, because she wanted another white...
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March 13, 2007

Berlin Hipsters Transform Playground Equipment Into Musical Instruments

For his thesis project at the University of the Arts in Berlin, Richard The created Playful Parasites, a set of Bluetooth-enabled sensors that transform traditional playground equipment--slides, swings, climbing toys, bouncy ride-ons--into an data-transmitting interface:The system is designed to...
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Who Buys Diapers From A Blog? Pampers Edition

The $25/99 Pampers promotion at Amazon last month, coming as it did on the heels of a similar Huggies promotion in January, provides a chance to see a breakdown of who you are reads this site buys diapers on...
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Sweet Vintage Muji Elephant Puzzle

It's taking me a while to get my photos of my phone, but as soon as I do, I'll post them here. These freaky cute, little wooden elephants were part of the display in NonChalant Mom's booth at Bubble...
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Angus Goble's Corrugated Kid Furniture At Bubble

Beyond just the excellent selection of indie exhibitors--most of the trade show is European and US kid/baby fashion--Bubble NY has a really excellent vibe. It's in a bright, sunny loft space on the Hudson, with spaces throughout for seating...
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Chigo In Da Dollhouse!

Between Play Mountain, Landscape Products, and Chigo, Shinichiro Nakahara has created something of a refined, humanistic modernist design archipelago of ventures across Tokyo. The company has done exhibits of mid-century modern designers; their stores mix original and exclusive furniture...
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ducduc boos

A couple of weeks ago, I got a familiar-sounding email from a reader I'll call John [because it's his real name], who was worried that his kid might be off to college before his ducduc dresser arrived:We were expecting...
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Introducing The Sesame Street Conjecture

Dr Terence Tao, 31, is a fast-rising star in the mathematics world. He did some of his groundbreaking work on compressed sensing with a colleague, Dr. Emmanuel Candès, while dropping their respective kids off at the same preschool. He...
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March 12, 2007

Crafty Miracleworkers Transform Busted Entertainment Center, 10 Lbs. Cottage Cheese, Into Mod Toy Kitchen

Instead of dumping their busted, old entertainment center, a fine Craftserwoman and her hubby [...] transformed it into a play kitchen for about $40, not counting the cottage cheese:...We measured just below the rim of the bowl, cut a...
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On The Subject Of Your Biracial Child's Hair

Suffice it to say that when it comes to hair, and particularly to perceptions, ideals of beauty, and norms of socialization, white folk have been messing with black folks' heads long before they actually started caring for them. Which...
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Skuut: Suspiciously Like A LikeABike, But With Huge Balls

Knockoffs of the Like-A-Bike are nothing new. Remember, Kokua, the German manufacturer who invented it, got the idea of a pedal-free cruiser from the Draisienne, a nearly-200-year-old ancestor of the modern bicycle. And at a made-in-Germany premium price of...
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March 11, 2007

Chavvy Galore Drives A Golden, Carbon-Fiber, Black Leather & Lacquer Maclaren!

Holy crap, British stroller people, what the hell is wrong with you? The Maclaren GB Type Au is a limited edition blingwreck based on the otherwise tasty CF6506, the black carbon fiber-and-black leather stroller the company introduced last year....
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The Crayon Car Can Draw Beautiful Rainbows On Your Floor

The kid and I spotted the Crayon Car by Alex Toys in the MoMA shop the other day. We were killing 20 minutes until the museum itself opened. It looked cute, she was stoked about it, and at four...
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March 10, 2007

That Praftalling Baker On Sesame Street

You kind of forget the multitude of clips that have been retired from the 'Street for one reason or another. Kermit, for example, was set free from CTW's nominally non-profit pen as part The Muppet Show spinoff [Did you know...
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Sesame Street Counting Yogi Now Complete, Available In Spanish

For a long time, the version of this classic clip floating around YouTube of the transmogrifying, four-armed, counting Swami from Sesame Street was missing the first part; it started counting at four. But thanks to the efforts of a...
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"Are You Unexpecting?" "Yes, Yes I Am."

The kid smacked her head on the corner of the coffee table this morning. After sweating for months--years, really--through the crawling, the cruising, the toddling, the walking, the running, all her phases, trying to keep her from smacking her head...
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Mayo Clinic Researchers: Cell Phones In Hospitals No Big Deal

From the March issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings:Use of Cellular Telephones in the Hospital Environment JEFFREY L. TRI, MSEE; RODNEY P. SEVERSON, CBET; LINDA K. HYBERGER, MA, CCRC; DAVID L. HAYES, MD OBJECTIVE: To determine whether cellular telephones used...
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March 9, 2007

Plush Robots From Argentina By Sopa de Principe

MoMA and the Museum of Latin American Art in Buenos Aires have a joint promotion going on right now that features contemporary designs and products from BA. We saw a bucket of these Plush Robots by Sopa de Principe...
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Dream Hotel, 210 West 55th St (Between 7th & Broadway) - NO

Bathrooms are on the lower level, accessed via either the stairway next to the glass elevator or the regular passenger elevators to the right. There's plenty of room in the bathroom and in the wheelchair-access stall--but no table....
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Strollers, High Art & HiArt

One of the shows the kid and I saw yesterday was by the German sculptor Isa Genzken at David Zwirner Gallery. Genzken has something of a signature style, which involves using deliberately artless-seeming techniques on commercial/industrial/pre-existing materials. The result's...
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Homebrewed Family 4X4 Nirvana: Mercedes 300TD, Volvo 245

Holy smokes, these are exactly the cars I would have built if I'd determined to head to the Sierra Nevadas with my wife and three-year-old daughter after 9/11. And needed something to navigate all those snowy mountain roads and...
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March 8, 2007

Wha Wha Wha? They Allow Strollers On Buses Now?

The kid and I were making the rounds of some galleries in Chelsea, then we had to go meet my wife and some of her former colleagues for dinner at Columbia. So with a little time to kill and no...
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Dad Spends 22 Extra Nanoseconds With Kids, Relativistically Speaking

Tom Van Baak decided to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Einstein's theory of general relativity and the 50th anniversary of Essen's first cesium clock by taking his family on a trip up Mount Rainier, thereby demonstrating the time-dilating effects of...
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Get Into My Belly: New Baby Cake By Michelle

Michelle Christian is an award-winning cake and sugar artist located in Burgess Hill, a small town between London and Brighton. And she made a cake in the shape of a newborn baby. Also in the shape of the Millennium...
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Mr. Hochstein, Your Son Is On The Phone. He Says He Has Some Exciting News.

So word on random Brazilian gossip websites is that Tom Brady got Gisele Bundchen pregnant. too. No consensus yet on Deadspin over whether this would make him the Kevin Federline, the Steve Garvey, or the NBA of the NFL. Tom...
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Dr. Bob! Dr. Bob! Dylanesque Covers Of Seuss Songs

Unbelievable. Dylan Hears A Who! is a collection of six Dr. Seuss songs interpreted in the style of the philosopher/musician Bob Dylan. Stream them online, or download the whole set of tracks for offline enjoyment. There's just one thing...I...
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"I Wish They Could See Him With Children [Instead Of With That Tramp He Left Me For]"

Awesome. Here's a campaign commercial from 1993, when Rudy Giuliani was trying to soften his image. A little less Il Duce, a little more Il Papa, if you will. And yes, enough New Yorkers were fooled for Rudy to win...
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Truck Studio Crib For Nurseryworks Gets The Big 10-4

How do I know it's way past time to get the search functionality here on Daddy Types fixed? When people are forced to send questions like this to the New York Times:Q. I once saw a crib that converted...
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March 7, 2007

PsychoEnfants, Qu'est Ce Que C'est?

Bwahaha, there's a French baby magazine called PsychoEnfants. I wish they had logo merchandise. Unfortunately, their website is really skimpy [the first third of the "breast or bottle?" article is just reciting a bunch of hypotheticals and myths, while...
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Yum Yum: Chair, Strollers From Bloom In The Spring

Bloom Baby, the Hong Kong-based gear company whose reclining, rotating, pneumatically raising, podaliciously curving Fresco high chair scooped up an award at last year's Kind + Jugend expo, is finally hitting the US this spring. Bloom is debuting at...
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Preschool Application Media Kits, Or What NOT To Do With iMovie And All Those Videos You Shot Of The Kid

New York Magazine isn't too worried about the Wall Street Journal's recent attempt to muscle in on their "Kids Cost The Darndest Things" franchise, but they had definitely better keep their eye on the NY Sun. Not only is the...
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March 6, 2007

Puzzle Place Setting Teaches Kid Where The Fork Goes. In Europe.

Fresh outta school Dutch designer Wendy Boudewijns won the Red Dot Award for her Puzzle Dinner Tray. Everything fits together like a puzzle, and most things have those little red knobs on them.] "At Royal VKB, we like our...
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Folkpsychological Development In Infants, Also Descartes' Baby Is An Awesome Title For A Book Or A Band

My wife flagged several very interesting studies on how kids' minds work and form and evolve in that looong NY Times Magazine article, "Darwin's God." I haven't gotten through it myself, but she's right; they're pretty fascinating. This one is...
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A Very Special DT Namewatch: Broker Edition

An adult named Mahkyle? He must have been the first guy around with that spelling. He's also a real estate broker for people who won't spend $20,000/month on a rental unless it has a fireplace that can "impress even a...
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Strollers In White Satin, Never Reaching The Minimum Bid

It's hard to have an auction when one of the most likely bidders was just buried in the Bahamas. Are you the other? This "standard Evenflo" stroller has been customized "using creme satin and gold lame...but you can customize...
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March 5, 2007

Help The Police, Help, Help, Help The Police

Time was, having a kid meant you could only sing along to your gangsta rap when you were driving alone. But after seeing comedian Adam Buxton's real-time-edited rendition of NWA's "F**k the Police", I'd say the times are a'changing....
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Soon, Only 500,000 NJ Transit Passengers Will Stand Between You And Your Muji

OK, OK, I should be stoked that Muji just announced their first store will be in the new New York Times Tower, on 40th Street across from Port Authority, and that it will be open in time for Holiday 2007....
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Mah Na Mah Na: 2008 Volvo XC70 Drops Towel On Way Out Of Sauna

So over the weekend, DT reader Eric sends me a link to the just-revealed stats of the 2008 Volvo V70/XC70. Nice proportions and curves. Then this morning on Jalopnik, a whole gallery of XC70 photos was released in advance...
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Apparently, "Mah-Na Mah-Na" Means "Into The Sauna, Ladies!" In Italian

So we're watching a few vintage Sesame Street clips the YouTube this weekend, when we see a seriously vintage version of "Mah Na Mah Na" under the end credits of this 35th Anniversary montage. Apparently, it dates from 1969,...
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The Kid Was All, 'Arcade Fire Is So Last Year'

I remember getting into an argument on the bus over who had been listening to the Bay City Rollers longer. It ended just as you expect, with one kid declaring, "Well, I've liked them since I was born." And then...
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March 4, 2007

SPOILER ALERT: Hollywood Guru Story Has Happy Ending

The obviousness of this NYT article on how a few childrearing gurus in Los Angeles was getting really annoying: Neighbors and friends and people who work together refer each other to the same sleep consultants??! Self-absorbed agents want solutions to...
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Uh, "Male Activist" Launches Most Oblique Ad Protest Campaign Ever

Last fall, Arnold Worldwide made some dumb ads for Fidelity about dumb dads, and so "male activists" have launched a campaign to protest negative portrayals of dads. Except I only count one "male activist" behind this, syndicated columnist Glenn Sacks....
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WSJ Scoop: Rich People Spend More Money On Their Kids

Yes, that's the gist of this article in the Wall Street Journal. Over the course of 17 years, parents with more money spend more money raising their kids. Some people even spend up to--wait for it--one million dollars. The...
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Sweet Tibetan Sheepskin Yakskin Baby Sling--And Birthing Center Vs. Delivery Room

This shot, titled "Father & Son," was taken in Amdo, Tibet, by Brooklyn photographer Raul Gutierrez, and it shows, among other things, an awesome sheepskin baby sling a yakskin robe being used as a baby sling [thanks for the...
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March 3, 2007

TCR: SAHD ROTFLMAO

Saw this the other night; it's pretty damn funny. Thanks to DT reader John, who just forwarded the online version. The Colbert Report has uncovered the latest threat to The American Way of Life--AND The Laws of Nature [and...
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March 2, 2007

More News From The "Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time" Department

You take an ad from an idiot, you suggest live on the air of your cable news program that your female guest come to your office to pose for nude photos. Everyone makes choices that, in retrospect, look a less...
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One-Time Daddy Types Advertisers In The News

I first learned about the existence of Glenn Beck when Turner Broadcasting bought an adspot on Daddy Types, then ran a promo for Beck's hard, deep probe of online porn addiction on CNN. From the amazing awkward silence in this...
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Children's Cold Medicines Are [Check All That Apply]: Untested, Useless, Potentially Dangerous

But hey, at least they're in BPA-free plastic bottles! At the urging of a petition submitted by a group of prominent pediatricians and public health officials, the FDA will begin a "broad review of the safety of popular cough and...
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Skywalkers Art Blimp Parade Phollow-up

I don't need anything! All I need is this modded Scion. And this art blimp parade. This Scion, and this art blimip parade. And this Bugaboo. This Scion, this art blimp parade, this Bugaboo, And a week at the...
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March 1, 2007

Mister Burnett's Neighborwood

Forget the design implications for a moment; one of the things that blows me away about the designer toy phenomenon is the blanks business model, where instead of just putting out a character doll, you put out a blank,...
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Some Vintage Swedish Kid's Furniture

I just bought a couple of musty 1962 issues of Popular Mechanics from 1962. They have huge spreads of photos and plans for building nine great-looking pieces of play furniture by Swedish designers: toy bins and play tables, little...
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Ja, The Bugaboo Cupholders Are In

* The end of your, long, parched agony is in sight. I just got the first word from a retailer that they have received actual, official Bugaboo drink holders. So hit up Jon at Pacifier in Minneapolis if you're...
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Der Struwwelpeter: Scarier Than Plastic Bottles, Even

Holy crap, And I thought Bisphenol A hysteria compounded by equivocating corporate shills was scary. Artist and prolific children's book illustrator Bob Staake ["Stack," as in "stack of titles to his name," btw] remembered all the tales of Der...
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Sweet, Custom-Painted (Diaper) Bags By Studio Espinosa

Matthew Cruickshank cited the Boston-based character design firm Studio Espinosa as one of the inspirations for his Neo-Mickey animation. Espinosa is run by a husband-wife team who are just beginning to see their wealth of ideas realized. They have a...
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