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Okay, so little babies like to take their socks off….and that is just so annoying because who wants a sock-less baby? That’s about as bad as a baseball player without a codpiece. So we gotta do something about that–and now we can, thanks, again, to our friends at One Step Ahead (those friends who are always…one step ahead of us…).
In a recent episode of Handy Manny titled “Home Sweet Home,” a neighborhood child plays a dangerous game of duck, duck, goose called “nut, nut, bolt” with the tools (click on the episode title, watch or skip intro, and then click the scroll bar to -03:22 to see the abhorrent scene).
For too long babies who had plagiocephaly were the only ones who had to wear headgear. They were “special” babies who needed to have a little help to make sure their head shape turned out normal as they grew.
Now, thanks to a new product on the market, “special” parents can put their babies in headgear too. The Thudguard ensures that their babies will not lose brain cells bumping their heads against furniture like everyone elses babies; in a sense leveling the future playing field one fall at a time.
We have a problem people. Babies like to show-off their bellies. Well, we can’t stand for it anymore and OneStepAhead is helping us end it. Let me introduce you to “Sta-tuct” and the end of baby shirts going above your baby’s belly.
Well, they’ve done it. Bach, the makers of “Rescue Remedy,” have solved the problem of kids’ fear of failure. Meet “Confidence Remedy”
We can debate the efficacy of violence against anyone all we like, but it’s pretty clear that committing violence against the very young is a bad idea.
In other news, spanking is remarkably ineffective at changing the behavior of baby lab rats.
Great story from the Consumerist about a New England Mom who feeds an entire family of children, dogs, and birds for less than $10 a week.
FYI, she does not accomplish this feat by slowly feeding the bird to the dog while slowly feeding the dog to the children. Apparently, Kathy Spencer is a coupon savant, and has fine tuned the art of discount shopping into something more akin to Subversive Promotional Manipulation.
This is a worthwhile skill set to have.
Fun fact I learned is that dimples are a dominant gene. If one parent has a dimple, they say its guaranteed that the child will have a dimple. So, just think…some time in the future…almost all of us will have dimples and then smooth cheeks will be considered cute and worthy of a cheek pinch!
Well, it inspired me to find out what else is dominant and I don’t understand what mother nature has in mind for the future of appendages.
Cute lecture by Ian Bogost of Persuasive Games about his five year old’s struggle to balance his virtual finances.
