We all know that Scandinavian kids sleep outside in their prams all winter long, wrapped in wool Onesies and down comforters, and that they're the healthiest, happiest, best-sleeping babies in any hemisphere. All that fresh air. We also know that...
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February 2013 Archives
February 28, 2013
Scandinavian Babies All Sleepin' Outside All The Time FTW
That Is So Funny, Because I Left A Son On The Subway Once
We Found Our Son On The Subway [nytimes]...
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Brands! Zombie Silver Cross Want Aston Martin's Brands!
To be fair, Silver Cross has been bankrupted and brought back to life far fewer times than Aston Martin has. But of the two historically British luxury vehicle brands, the one most in need of a leg up is...
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February 27, 2013
Bear In Space: The Truth Is Out There
Bear In Space is a 1970 Russian children's book about a bear who fakes a moon landing. It shows all the neat camera tricks and stuff the bear used to make it look like he really landed on the...
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2 Reasons We Don't Live In A Paul Rudolph House
I just realized I don't hate Buzzfeed-style web listicles after all; I just haven't seen enough ones I really like. 15 Mid-Century Modern Dream Homes That Will Kill Your Children [projectophile via @langealexandra]...
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Hey FB Dads, What Did You Do With Your 'Baby Cash'?
In the most cursory of roundups of parental leave policies at various [three large] technology firms, the NY Times mentions that Facebook not only provides 16 weeks paid leave for all full-time employees who become parents. The company also gives...
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Now That's A Fire
via:9 years ago, your mother and I started a little fire and you have burned my forest down. I don't remember being a man who wasn't your daddy. Alone, by myself, left to my own devices, I am not a...
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February 26, 2013
There's An ADO Speelgoed By Ko Verzuu Exhibition In Apeldoorn Until March 17.
Wow. You remember that amazing digital archive of ADO Speelgoed at the CODA Museum in the Netherlands? Well, there's an exhibition, too, and it runs through March 17. CODA (Cultur Onder Dak Apeldoorn) is in, obviously, Apeldoorn, in central Holland,...
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February 25, 2013
How I Met Your Mohel
If you only read one thing in deciding whether to circumcise your son, then for G-d's sake, DON'T DO IT. You really ought to give more thought, consideration, and research to the matter: it's another man's penis being sliced up,...
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My Friend FLIKEA
The AP reports that Czech authorities found traces of horse meat in Ikea meatballs. Ikea says that their tests show no such thing? Or maybe we go with, horse meat is at undetectable levels? Anyway, Ikea's stopped selling meatballs, but...
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February 23, 2013
I Heartily Endorse This Event Or Product
The National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse (NRFC) is a resource of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families' (ACF) Office of Family Assistance (OFA). The NRFC's goals are to "provide, facilitate, and disseminate current research,...
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February 22, 2013
Hoon Hoon Hoon: Basta, Mazda6 Wagon
If stylish, affordable, high-performance, high-efficiency 6-speed turbodiesel station wagons are the kind of thing you like, this is the kind of thing you'll hate: Autoblog's Italian expat Matt boondoggled his way into taking the 2014 Mazda6 Wagon Skyactiv-D around...
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Not Enough Kids Are Named Ib
Am I just not hearing about it, or are more people really somehow not naming their kids Ib? Previously: mid-century rocker by Ib Kofod-Larsen Related: Steve Zuckerman's OG Sesame Street songs...
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February 21, 2013
Western Hemisphere/Pittsburgh Finally Getting A Lozziwurm
A press release announces that the Carnegie Museum of Art is installing a Lozziwurm in a new "pocket park" in front of the museum, in advance of two potentially awesome, upcoming shows: the 2013 incarnation of the venerable Carnegie...
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February 20, 2013
DTQ: Should You Go In The Family Security Line At The Airport?
Dulles Airport, by Eero Saarinen, photo: Ezra Stoller, 1964 Dulles, I love you, but you're bringin' me down. Let's just start by agreeing that after 25 years of construction and $190 billion, the new underground security screening & train...
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February 16, 2013
Motherlode's 188 Comments About 144 Bloggers
KJ Dell'Antonia is crowdsourcing a new blogroll over at Motherlode, the NY Times' parenting blog. And most of the comments are folks plugging their own material, which, good for them, blogstrong, people! There are very few I recognize, except Daddy's...
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February 15, 2013
Sundance Onesies
It's that cold, snowy time of the year when we bring the kids to Sundance for a little skiing/snowboarding/grandparental facetime combo weekend. And whoa, the Sundance store has had a kid-friendly makeover. There is an entire wall of baby...
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February 13, 2013
For Sale: Starck Baby Tableware, Never Used
Timpee1, an eBay seller in Wisconsin, has decided now is the time clear out the Philippe Starck + Target baby gear that's been sitting, unused, in the packages, since 2001. Which, if you're in the market for a baby...
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February 12, 2013
Here Is A Fine Rollup Canvas Pack From D'Emploi
Lest you think Brooklyn dadding is only about repurposing $750 leather duffles as diaper bags, just take a look at this: it's a very fine-looking waxed canvas roll-up pack that zips almost flat, and that's just the right size--14x11x5--to...
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Wicked Strollah Pahking
When I saw the subject line in Boston DT reader Sara's email was "stroller parking spot saver," I imagined some Southie dad spending 45 minutes digging his stroller out of the snow, and deploying a traffic cone to hold its...
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Do You Know Me? Wooden Mystery Bendy Snake
DT reader Michelle's brother recently scored this interesting-looking toy snake, and we've been stumped trying to figure out anything about it. Does anyone recognize it, either as a product, or perhaps a project/design? Or is it really just one...
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February 11, 2013
Hipster Fathering Is Not A Crime!
I've been cheering on the inside for Kindling Quarterly for over a month now, because I know exactly how it feels to stand on the brink of fatherhood, survey the parenting magazinescape, and see a deep, daunting, me-shaped void....
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February 10, 2013
The Sonneberg Toy Museum Has A Scheißeload Of Renate Mueller Stuff
It's no surprise, I guess, that the Spielzeugmuseum Sonneberg, the oldest toy museum in the historic center of the German toy industry, would have a large collection of hometown heroine Renate Müller's designs. There are remarkably few of Mueller's...
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February 8, 2013
DT Friday Freakout: Teddy Bears Edition
I know I'm missing a bunch, but these reports from the worlds of science, health, parenting, and twitter [uh, three of these things belong together? -ed.] should be enough to freak you out and ruin your weekend. Except for the...
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February 7, 2013
Barbie's Malibu Teardown
Barbie's listed her Malibu Dreamhome for sale with some reality TV broker, on the formerly somewhat credible real estate website Trulia, as part of a "year-long global branding campaign." Seriously, what a horrible piece of junk. $25 million is...
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Chicfest
The best and chicest diaper bags for dad ow.ly/hu5s1— Dadding (@BabbleDads) February 7, 2013...
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February 6, 2013
Dad 2.013 Summit Roundup Roundup
It's been a bit quiet around these parts the last few days, partly because I've been swamped with some offline work deadlines, and partly because--duh, wasn't everyone at Dad 2.0 Summit anyway? Congratulations to Doug and the many folks who...
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February 5, 2013
Diary Of A Pregnant Woman, By Agnes Varda
Agnes Varda is one of my film heroes; her 1999 documentary, The Gleaners And I, was what finally pushed me to start making movies myself back in 2000. Now, amazingly, the Prague-based documentary streaming/subscription site Doc Alliance Films is hosting...
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February 1, 2013
Area Man Says Baby Naming Is A First Amendment Right
As a Naming Freedom-loving American, I guess it's natural I find the BBC's half-hearted attempt to answer the question, "Why do some countries regulate baby names?" unpersuasive: " it's about meeting certain rules of grammar and gender, and saving the...
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This Russian Life
From WBEZ Chicago, this is Ira Glasnost. The public radio station's new ad campaign is encouraging listeners to make babies who will grow up listening to public radio and who will thus support their fundraising campaigns starting in 2032. In...
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This Creative Playthings Puzzle Has Been Buy It Nowed.
In the time it took me and K2 to return our Star Trek video this morning, a faster eBay shark than I snapped up this sweet 1970s wooden tray puzzle Fredun Shapur made for Creative Playthings. Which, technically, yes,...
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