Category archive: news

May 3, 2013

DT Friday Freakout: Edition Of The Rat

It's been that kind of a week, the kind where you wish you could avoid all the freakout-inducing headlines from the worlds of parenting, science, and safety. Where you wish you could just bundle them all up into one, so...
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April 26, 2013

DT FRiday Freakout: Freeball Edition

The Scottish Medical Journal reports that some Dutch guy heard that Scottish guys have better sperm quality because kilts and scrotal temperature and sure, why not? Seriously, that is the level of the analysis we're talking about here. It's...
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April 22, 2013

Stroll Your Cares Away With The Mark Maclaren!

So far they haven't taken me up on my suggestion to do a co-branded stroller with BP, but Maclaren is now rolling in style on Madison Avenue. The Mark hotel and residences on the Upper East Side are delighted...
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April 17, 2013

America's Day Care Hellscape Is A Political Choice

From The New RepublicFirst, Mire tried KinderCare again, but they wouldn't take Kendyll until Mire paid her debt; when she did, there were no openings. She called about a dozen centers, all of which were either too expensive or had...
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April 15, 2013

And If It's A Boy, We'll Name Him Felonious

This is probably one of those days when you come home and hug Biggles, Posie and Tuppence extra tight. And then curl up with a subreddit full of other peoples' eye-opening baby names: "I knew a Hamiley. A combination...
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April 10, 2013

Belligerent Hustling Muppets Take Manhattan

After another reported assault by violent, tip-hustling muppets, the NYPD and government officials said that sorry, there was really nothing to be done. "It's very challenging legally because dressing up in a costume and walking around Times Square is,...
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April 2, 2013

Fukushima Babies Are A West Coast Thing

A study has found that kids in western US states born in the first four months of after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown were up to 28% more likely to have congenital hypothyroidism. The condition, which can be treated with...
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March 18, 2013

Tiny Puppetmasters Will Turn Us All Into Heathers

If we let them. Through over 200 experimental pairings of nice and mean puppets, researchers at Yale have found that 9- and 14-mo kids like to see cold justice dealt to all those who dare to differ from them in...
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March 1, 2013

One Country, Two Formula Markets

No, these people in Shenzhen haven't violated the one-child policy; they're taking as much powdered formula as they can carry back to Hong Kong, ahead of HK's ban on Mainland powdered milk products, which goes into effect March 1st....
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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 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 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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December 19, 2012

I Would Steal From Your Parked-On-The-Street Stroller Just On Principle

Oh hi, Park Slope mom who left your stroller parked, unattended--and laden with $700 worth of tote bags, iPhones, wallets, keys, and bougies--on the street outside your home daycare for half an hour. Did you just have a baby? If...
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Aigle Royal With Babies

They got the metric system in Quebec; they don't know WTF a golden eagle is. Also, I had this video on mute the first 25 or so times I watched it. Big mistake....
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December 16, 2012

'With A Gun In My Face'

Tech designer, entrepreneur, and dad Ryan Freitas' firsthand experience with gun violence feels really powerful. It's direct, reasonable, and, hopefully, persuasive for those who might feel that there is nothing to do or nothing to be done about gun regulation...
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December 14, 2012

Holy Smokes.

I can't even. those kids. those families. post-pickup update : so picking up my own kids from school and preschool today, it was totally normal; they clearly have no idea, and they just bounced right into the car, without a...
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Bugaboo Takes Impending Recall Announcements About Its Popping-Out Handles Situation Very Seriously

Have you picked up your Cameleon or Donkey in bassinet mode by the padded handle and had one side pop out, giving you a momentary shock but not injuring your child, and then you stuck it back in, and made...
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December 12, 2012

4yo Car Tester Stuck In Lexus Trunk Triggers 700,000 Car Recall

So when you're a car tester, you can put your kid in the trunk and call it research? What a boondoggle! Consumer Reports tester Jake Fisher's 4yo son was eager to test the inside trunk release lever in the...
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December 8, 2012

Aleppo Rebel Dad

Rebel dad in Aleppo takes his son home from Friday Prayers in Aleppo, Syria. image: Odd Anderson/AFP-Getty via nyt I don't know what your Friday was like, but sheesh, think about the folks in Syria, and your complaints should...
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December 7, 2012

DT Friday Freakout: L'Edition Sperme

We missed a couple of weeks, but here are a handful of headlines from the worlds of health, safety, and parenting, bundled up to freak you out all at once, on your own schedule. It's the Daddy Types Friday Freakout:...
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December 3, 2012

I'd Like To Welcome DT's Newest Guest Blogger, The Duke Of Cambridge

But I can't. HRH said he'd already lined up another gig. You win this round, Dadcentric! I might make a @dadcentric announcement soon. Got some "new" guys coming on board. About to get Dream Team up in here.— Jason Avant...
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Deep Cover

Amazing investigative reporting by @BuzzFeedAndrew finds this conclusive evidence, from 2001, that Barack Obama's whole, "palling around with terrorists, socialist crypto-Muslim past" was all an elaborate ruse to hide his true nature, as a Yankee Doodlin', umbrella stroller pushin',...
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November 26, 2012

If Measured On A Per-Bounce Basis, I'm Sure The Bouncy Castle Industry Would Look Much Safer

The first nationwide survey of bounce house injuries has found that the unregulated, inflatable death castles are the site of an epidemic of pain, suffering, and injury on a massive scale not seen since the Great Trampoline Plague of...
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November 21, 2012

It's Playground Morning In America

Maybe if Saratoga Springs Mayor Mia Love had run on how she successfully thwarted the parasites in the personal injury lawyer industry to build Utah's awesomest new playground, she'd be Utah's awesomest new congresswoman right about now. But then...
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November 15, 2012

Q: And Babies? A: And Babies.

The AP photo above was taken at a hospital in Gaza, and shows BBC videographer and editor Jihad Misharawi holding the body of his 11-month-old son Omar. The child was killed, along with his aunt, when their home was...
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The Ultimate Strolling Machine: BMW Licenses Self To Maclaren

Are you gonna let a shady bankruptcy, corporate shell games, and offshore intellectual property shenanigans get in the way of a brand licensing deal? Not when you've got xDrive! That's right, BMW has done its first stroller cross-branding deal--with...
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November 14, 2012

Adam Yauch Playground

The S.E.M. Ensemble has been performing experimental and modern music for over 40 years. This evening S.E.M. Ensemble tweeted that Palmetto Playground, the city park along State St & Columbia Place in Brooklyn Heights has been renamed Adam Yauch...
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November 12, 2012

Tickle Me, Elmo Is 16 Years Old This Year.

OH, NOW ONE DAY LATER AND WITHOUT AN APOLOGY COMES A BIG OL' NEVER MIND. La la la la, la la la la Do you know who just turned 16 years old? Tickle Me Elmo! If you were only eight...
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November 5, 2012

Newborns For Obama

Tell me this kid is not flipping off Bill Clinton. [talkingpointsmemo]...
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October 30, 2012

Sandy Adventure Playground

I hope everyone affected by the storm is managing alright. And that getting back to normal does not automatically include removing this tree from this frankly kind of already ad hoc-looking playground near the lower tip of Manhattan. Playground...
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October 26, 2012

Brooklyn Kid Gets Toddler-Sized Payout In WTF Mongolian BBQ Playground Case

The pseudo-private government entity that ran Brooklyn Bridge Park when it opened, and the playground designer who installed those giant, stainless steel Mongolian BBQ playdomes in the first place, will split the $17,500 settlement awarded to a Brooklyn kid,...
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October 25, 2012

There Is No Friday Freakout Big Enough

Ho. ly. Smokes. I just can't even mention it or link to the story. Or to the mom's blog. Even reading the Times, with the little details of their day culled from the blog and sprinkled through the report, it...
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October 19, 2012

Century Of The Child Playground Symposium Livestream, Yo

Whoa, I can't believe it's about to start. As part of the exhibition, Century of The Child, MoMA curator Juliet Kinchin is hosting Child in the City of Play, a symposium exploring urbanism, play, and child development, starting at...
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October 17, 2012

Obama Onesies

I am voting for Barack Obama because I have kids--daughters. I am also wondering what the hell is going on with Beyonce's $65 Obama onesies, which not only aren't capitalized, but which also are a cotton/poly blend. Because not...
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October 9, 2012

Occupy Protestors Multiplying

You know how it goes. When a peaceful Occupy Wall Street protestor and the medic who treated her pepper spray burns love each other very much... Mazeltov to Kaylee Dedrick, Robert Grodt, and their new daughter Tegan, who joined the...
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October 4, 2012

The Coming Diapercalypse

image via brisbanetimes There's nothing like an explosion in a Japanese superabsorbent polymer factory to throw the disposable diaper industry analysts into a frenzy. Literally, before the smoke had cleared, and the injured firefighters had been accounted for, headlines...
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September 27, 2012

Wake The F**k Up

Considering the Obama administration's disastrous handling of medical marijuana and decriminalization, and that before he did the drawings for the insta-classic, illustrator Richard Cortes was also the creator of It's Just A Plant, I don't know if he and...
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September 24, 2012

Toddlers Toddle, Sometimes Fall, While Sippy Cups, Bottles, Pacifiers

How long does med school take? 14 years? And because you accumulated a million dollars in student loans, and Obamacare's already cutting into your fat margins, you find yourself panic trolling for Yahoo, slapping ridiculous SEO headlines on content farm-level...
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September 17, 2012

Mitt Romney & The Onesies Percent

So there's the WTF secret video of the private, $50,000/plate fundraiser where Mitt Romney explains how 47% of Americans are income tax-shirking, government-dependent moochers who, well, there's nothing to be done about them, so "my job is is not to...
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September 12, 2012

Silver Cross Surf's Up! Unidentified Local Mum Wipes Out On Sidewalk

My favorite part of this paparazzi photo of Astala Dylan Willow Geldof-Cohen's Silver Cross Surf pram and car seat getting stuck in a gap on the sidewalk and pitching him to the ground is his little feet. So cute....
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September 10, 2012

Inglourious 'Breastapo' Prefers The Milk.

Oh, man, if these Sunday Star-Times reports are any indication, the health care system in New Zealand has been seized by power-mad lactivists loyal to the WHO, who have turned the little island nation into the breastfeeding version of...
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How Can Paul Ryan Be Vice President AND A Dad?

So a couple of ball-bustin' reporters from the Chicago Sun-Times cornered a local politician at the Democratic National Convention and started firin' off the tough questions:[Illinois Attorney General Lisa] Madigan and her husband, Pat Byrnes, have two young children, ages...
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September 7, 2012

And The Company That'll Bring It To You: AT&T

JJ Daddy-O had flagged the original story a few days ago of a junior high school in Texas putting RFID chips in student ID's to help bring in more headcount-based state funding. But Wired gets the award for the most...
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August 26, 2012

DT Friday Freakout: Sunday Edition

A roundup of headlines from the worlds of health, science, and parenting to freak you out and ruin [what's left of] your weekend, an exclusive service of Daddy Types: The CPSC is suing Buckyball desktop magnet toy makers because crazy...
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August 7, 2012

Mentos National Night: The Singaporean BabyMaker

I just, wow. I mean, I, SINGAPORE, people, land of caning and the One More Child Policy. I'm a patriotic husband You're my patriotic wife. I wanna book into your camp and manufacture LIFE. I can't wait to buy a...
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August 3, 2012

The Thurman Bussons Remind You Of The Benefits Of Breastfeeding

They had their daughter a couple of weeks ago, so mazel tov, and remember that breastfeeding provides tremendous health and social benefits to both mother and child. [thanks DT reader Michael who spotted the news, and who also encourages...
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August 1, 2012

Tradebot Chaos, China Cord Blood, Chick-Fil-A

A glitch hit the New York Stock Exchange this morning, causing wild swings in prices and excessive trading volume in the shares of around 140 different companies. It appears the glitch was caused by an out-of-whack high frequency trading...
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July 31, 2012

DON'T LEAVE YOUR KID IN THE BACK SEAT [WITH ONE OF THOSE KID-IN-THE-BACK-SEAT DETECTORS]

What with global warming and drought and derechos and whatnot, we're all pretty much doomed anyway, but SERIOUSLY, ESPECIALLY DURING THE SUMMER, PLEASE GET IN THE HABIT OF CHECKING THE BACK SEAT EVERY SINGLE TIME YOU GET OUT OF THE...
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Latch On, Latch Off: Bloomberg Tells Hospitals To Lock Up That Formula

The Bloomberg administration has persuaded 27 of New York City's 40 hospitals to adopt new, breastfeeding-friendlier procedures for newborns. As part of the new Latch On NYC program, maternity ward nurses are supposed to encourage new moms to breastfeed by...
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