The Tactical Baby Carrier from Mission Critical looks like it's just a bodycam and a couple of Kevlar inserts shy of a Take Your Kid To Work outfit for law enforcement. There is black for urban crowd control, coyote...
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July 2015 Archives
July 30, 2015
Tactical Baby Carrier by Mission Critical
July 23, 2015
Libre Soy, Libre Soy
Everything's bigger in Texas, including the family prisons. image: ICE I'll be honest, when I first heard that the ICE immigrant family detention centers full of Central American refugee kids and moms had animal-themed cell blocks like red bird...
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July 18, 2015
Road Trips And Hanging Out
If you need a place to hang out with a baby for three hours in the greater Chicago area I can recommend the lobby of the Westin at O'Hare— Gabriel Roth (@gabrielroth) July 19, 2015 No one's even asked for...
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July 17, 2015
Color It Out!
I am deeply unsettled by the coloring books for grownups trend. Honestly, if you have that much time, you should be editing Wikipedia articles, or working on your Pinterest board or something. Unless you're talking about something actually unsettling,...
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The Sonar System, By Ras Mykha
With all the hype about Pluto, now's the time to get your kid psyched for the next cosmic destination, The Sonar System. The Sonar System is a group of planets orbiting around a giant speaker, where everyone's really into...
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July 15, 2015
I'm Sure There's An Uptick In Romans, Too
Just one more and naming your kid after the kid in the podcast will officially be a trend:There are now two other little boys in the world named Mazlo. Amazed by that.— Roman Mars (@romanmars) July 15, 2015...
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July 13, 2015
The Bouncy Desk
Why hasn't someone made this? It's the perfect VR motion rig! 😂 via @SuB8u pic.twitter.com/CYHDpLkBIs— Darshan Shankar (@DShankar) July 14, 2015 Meanwhile, if anyone does invent this, I'll just scootch mine over to the stairs and end it all....
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Except For Not Knowing How To Use A Car Seat, You're Totally Ready For This
Mazda's commercial about nervous new parents being well prepared to bring the kid home from the hospital in their safe CX-5 warms the hearts of everyone who doesn't notice that the kid's car seat straps are ridiculously loose. [thx...
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This Is Not Your Dad's Japanese Dad Music
I have no idea, but I've learned to trust Neojaponisme on these sorts of things. So here is Matt Treyvaud's tightly curated little playlist of summer dad music for sitting on the engawa, watching the kids hunt semi. Read Treyvaud's...
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July 10, 2015
Atticus, Life, Complicated
Whoops.We remember Atticus Finch in Harper Lee's 1960 classic, "To Kill a Mockingbird," as that novel's moral conscience: kind, wise, honorable, an avatar of integrity who used his gifts as a lawyer to defend a black man falsely accused of...
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It's Such A Good Feeling
Fred Rogers just made me cry, and it's ok. At least it'll take my mind off of Inside Out. Fred Rogers Message to those who grew up with the Neighborhood [vimeo via khoi]...
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July 7, 2015
The Swedish Man Project
I know, "The Disease of Manhood" sounds like about half the thinkpieces on The Good Men Project, but Dan Duray's review of the Swedish director Ruben Ostlund's film Force Majeure and My Struggle is a solidly interesting discussion of contemporary...
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Naming Opportunities
When you name the heir do a media and financial info dynasty, it's not just the kid; you have to think about how the name will look on a terminal, or a TV caption, or a museum wall. There is...
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July 6, 2015
The Chosen One, Or The Results Of Andy Baio's Video Game Parenting Experiment
Last December Andy Baio wrote about an experiment he performed on his son: exposing him to the history of video games in chronological order, rather than just starting at the state of the art of today. Now the Gel...
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July 5, 2015
I'd Like To Be Set Out To Sea On An Octopus-Shaped Float Toy
Not that you should plan for it, of course, but it's nice to know that if you did forget about her, an Octopus Mini Lilo can keep your 10-month-old afloat a kilometer out to sea until the coast guard...
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July 1, 2015
Luck Be A Lady Tonight
Oh there are so many ways to parse this story about Amber Pangborn, who gave birth to her daughter Marisa alone in the forest. Where she was stranded out of gas. And attacked by placenta-hunting bees, And started a forest...
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