Oh man oh man, how can this week's freakout be about anything but measles and vaccines? What matters is "herd immunity." Unvaccinated people relying on vaccinated people around them to keep the disease from spreading. Including people who can't get...
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January 2015 Archives
January 30, 2015
DT Friday Freakout: Measles, What Else? Edition
Kanye Can Get The Toddler Bean Boots
Wait. What is on North's feet? Are those actual Bean Boots? Where'd they come from? Bean hasn't made toddler-sized duck boots for a loong time. I've been searching for a pair for so long, my kids have both grown...
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January 29, 2015
Auto Bild Und Die Glorreichen Sieben-Sitzer
When a very unusual Citroen CX 2500 Familiale turned up for sale a couple of months ago, I went Internet diving. Which led me to this: a 2012 round-up of classic seven-seaters from Auto Bild called, Die Glorreichen Sieben-Sitzer....
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MODERNCHILD Closing Sale This Week
I am very bummed at the news that the online shop Modernchild is closing. Tien was a pioneer and a great supporter of modern and independent kids design, and she has a terrific eye. It was an honor to have...
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January 27, 2015
l'Etat Say: Nutella? Banane!
Unlike other third world nannytatorships like Germany, New Zealand, and Scandinavia, France does not maintain a list of approved baby names. It merely grants "civil control officers" of the state the unchecked authority to veto your baby name choices. You...
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January 23, 2015
DT Friday Freakout: Arsenic Edition
The Daddy Types Friday Freakout is a compendium of news stories from the worlds of science, health, and parenting, saved up during the week and unleashed here all at once to freak. you out: Though one could easily say, "There's...
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Where Did The Bad Formula Commercial Touch You?
Bwahaha, at first I was like LOL, then LMAO, then ROTFLMAO, and then I was like, FULL STOP, AS YET UNIDENTIFIED ADVERTISER. Advertiser who was making me laugh at parenting stereotypes one second, but who the next compels me...
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January 22, 2015
A Vacctivist We Can Believe In
This is the first explanation of why not to vaccinate your kid that makes any sense. Of course, it's also from August, so we should be due for some updates? In other vaccination news, the Disneyland Measles are spreading to...
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January 20, 2015
We Are Easily Amused: British Buggy Bidders Bonkers
The UK has found its next Susan Boyle, and it's a dad of three trying to unload a beat-up Phil & Ted's stroller on eBay. A viral media frenzy has eruptedover seller ukjoel25's auction, which has received 564 inquiries...
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January 19, 2015
Blurred Wonder Woman Pajamas
Let's face it, now that our entire civilization has been turned into it, one cares about the actual America's Funniest Home Videos anymore. But I very much WOULD like to see a pair of toddler-sized pajamas with a blurred...
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Rescuing Dolls From A Life Of Bratz
The Tasmanian artist behind Tree Change Dolls rescues dolls from the streets and helps them turn their young lives around. With a gentle make-under and some more fun, age-appropriate clothes, the only scars of their Bratz past are on...
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Elaborate Batstroller Probably Fills Emotional Voids
Of all the superhero origin stories, none capture the idea of a stable, idyllic, well-adjusted childhood quite like Batman. Which is probably why one fandad spent untold hours making this Dark Knight stroller, using only a car seat, a...
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January 17, 2015
'Handcrafted With Lots of Fun In Thailand' Until They Folded
I love thinking about the Thai workers who had so much fun handcrafting this toy for my kid pic.twitter.com/UvL6sxT0FH— Gabriel Roth (@gabrielroth) January 17, 2015 @gregorg @gabrielroth @daddytypes A doll so magical as to relieve bourgeois guilt. Worth tracking...
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January 16, 2015
DT Friday Freakout: Naptime Edition
Oh things are piling up; there will be more to freakout about this weekend, just let me get back to my laptop. But even if it were the only one, this first breaking announcement from the world of pediatric development...
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January 14, 2015
Paul Revere Whistle And Teething Stick
While doing a little research on Paul Revere the other day, I came across this: "His most unusual items were made before the Revolution, when he crafted a chain for a pet squirrel an ostrich egg snuffbox, and a...
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Philippe Starck Baby Name Generator
Nothing has prepared me--not even blogging about his kid-related designs for 11 years--I tell you nothing has prepared me for the datapoints coming in about Philippe Starck as an actual parent. For example, this bit Simon flagged, which was originally...
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January 12, 2015
We All Have A Little Artist In Us Just Waiting To Emerge
In other unsettling kid-related artwork news, this PSA-like video from the art collaborative DIS was included in EXPO 1, a sprawling, multi-part exhibition about the future, which was at MoMA PS1 in 2013. It was part of ProBio, a...
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January 10, 2015
Xmas Xplory
Matter's Kati Krause has a great talk with writer and new dad Ben Hammersley about work, money, kids, money, marriage and divorce, and money. But there is absolutely no discussion of the Christmas lights Hammersley has apparently wrapped and...
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January 9, 2015
DT Friday Freakout: Measles Is Coming For Your Unvaccinated Children Edition
Here at Daddy Types we don't like to play by publicists' and TV news' rules, stringing you along with one anxiety-inducing science, news, health, and parenting story after another, details tonight at 11, learn how after the break! Parenting's stressful...
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John Waters. You Know, For Kids.
John Waters has another art exhibit at Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York. The theme of this one seems to be gay mid-to-late-life crisis, as the lovable old freak sees the gay world around him succumb to the worst horrors...
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January 8, 2015
M-I-C Caught Measles At Disneyland! K-E-Y Why? Because We Weren't Vaccinated!
"You've got the measles! What're you going to do next?" "I'm going to Disneyland!" From NBC 4:Disneyland officials issued a health warning for the tens of thousands who visited the theme park during the holidays. A theme park visitor is...
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January 6, 2015
By Your Paternity Leave, Milord
Ho. Ly. Crap. I go away for ONE week, and this is what happens to the state of newdadwriting? Writer William Giraldi gets paternity leave from Boston University and the only thing he manages to nurture is a drinking problem?My...
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