Clone of Daddy Types: June 2004 Archives

June 2004 Archives

June 30, 2004

Chris Martin drives a Bugaboo!!!

Buy a black Bugaboo just like Chris Martin's at babystyle for-- who cares how much it costs??...
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Stroller Companies: 'You Are Celebrity Pram-Chasing Lemmings'

I can't top this, so I'll just link and quote a lot:Lists of the nation's top celebrities are being scoured by PR consultants for names of glamorous stars. They must be young, beautiful and - most importantly - have a...
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Jew Havin' A Baby?

ChosenCouture.com, the makers of the Yo Semite! and Jews for Jeter t-shirts, also offer a few gift ideas for the new dad. You don't need to be Jewish to appreciate them (although for one, you do need to be a...
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June 29, 2004

NASA Scientist Reveals How to Work a Bugaboo

Don't blame Gwyneth's minions. They just revealed to the world what every Bugaboo owner already knows: opening and closing one of those things is hard to figure out. The Bugaboo differs from, say, an umbrella--or even an umbrella stroller--where these...
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Time Cafe, 380 Lafayette St at Great Jones St - NO

There's a marble shelf in the women's room, but I'm sure there's a pack o' trouble if dads go in there... (Thanks again, Amie) While I'm thanking about it, we're out of the city a lot this summer; thanks for...
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Puck Building, 295 Lafayette St at Houston - NO

Not in the women's room, either. "Changed him on a heater." (Thanks, Amie)...
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The Classic-est Crib

Looking for a crib we could stand was a hassle. It's such a big purchase, you don't want to screw it up, yet almost every crib out there is over-designed, over-done, or overwhelming, like some giant Price Is Right showcase....
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June 28, 2004

Teach The Kid To Fish

Over the last couple of weeks, I've been sitting the kid on the edge of the sink and explaining how I'm making a bottle for her. I show her the steps, do it all right in front of her. Most...
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June 27, 2004

Other Religious Finger Puppets

Finger puppets? They're not just for Hindus anymore. A beautiful Sunday morning seems like the right time to point out [sic] the finger puppets of other faiths: Nativity Scene finger puppets for six-fingered Christians: "Set of 6 plush Nativity Finger...
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Ikea Machine-Washable Farm

Yesterday we went over the river and through the woods (lots of woods) to Grandma's house, where the kid found this fabric farm from Ikea waiting for her. The animals are all very grabbable--and chewable--and machine-washable. And the whole brood...
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June 25, 2004

Progress Report, as of 2 min. ago

11:01 AM The kid wakes up at my feet. I pick her up and put her on my lap. "Look at you! You're sitting up! You're sitting up!" "Blech" "You're spitting up!" BRB...
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Utterly Random Bottle-Related Products

OK, Great Baby Products turns out to be the SkyMall of baby gear: thousands of Innovations you had no idea you needed, that solve hundreds of problems you didn't know you had, all pitched with breathless optimism and urgency. As...
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Nipple/Bottle Adapters in the US of A

The Bib'Evianis only available in France, but it turns out you can buy adapters for putting a nipple on a standard drink bottle right here in the US. In fact, Great Baby Products practically demands you stick it to the...
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June 24, 2004

Please Redesign the Diaper Genie

Dads should be the greatest beneficiaries of the Diaper Genie's magical powers. Even if you don't change every diaper (Remember EBB?), you're still probably the one to take out the trash. If that's the case, Playtex's Diaper Genie, like so...
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Be down with EBB: Managing The First Few Weeks

On page 37 of Be Prepared, Gary Greenberg & Jeannie Hayden's excellent guidebook for new dads, are four policy suggestions for dads dealing with PPMS (Post-Partum Mood Swings. If you don't know yet, don't worry.). The other three--listen, ignore occasional...
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June 22, 2004

Elmer the Rainbow-Patchwork Elephant

A good friend gave the kid an Elmer Book and a stuffed Elmer doll, which has become one of her favorites to gnaw on. Elmer is different from other elephants; he's covered with patchworks in all the colors of the...
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Token Father's Day Stories Roundup

By which I mean, Roundup of Token Father's Day Stories. Rebeldad ("as heard on NPR") has put his army of interns to work assembling and reviewing news stories from around the country about at-home dads, changing roles of fathers, and...
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An Unexpected Father's Day Car Seat Sighting

Late Sunday afternoon, we stopped in Philadelphia to get a cheesesteak at Abner's (not the best in town, sure, but good enough for the population of UPenn students who live all around it). As we parked, a large, two-tone carseat...
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Ikea, therefore I am.

Happiness is not reaching your goal. Happiness is being on the way. It is our wonderful fate to be just at the beginning ... The word impossible has been and must remain deleted from our dictionary. -- From The Testament...
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June 21, 2004

A Great Father's Day Tribute from Dooce

Jon Armstrong (he of Blurbomat fame) gets an inspiring First Father's Day shoutout from the ladies....
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Advances in Pre-natal Screening Make for Difficult Choices

The Times' Amy Harmon takes a long, involved look at the new, difficult choices that parents-to-be sometimes face because of prenatal tests like the triple screen. Earlier, more accurate fetal testing can spot potential birth defects and disabilities sooner, giving...
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Handmade Modern Baby Blankets

To regular Daddy Types readers, this architect couple's dilemma hits home: "My husband and I were constantly looking for furniture, clothing, and toys that would complement our modern style. Unfortunately, it was much more difficult than we imagined." Not one...
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A Variety of Memory Book Options

A couple of Daddy Typers in Hotlanta emailed asking about memory books, those keepsake photo/big event albums for recording a kid's life until he's old enough to blog it for himself. I have to confess my ignorance of the memory...
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Beta Male: Wimping Out of The Delivery Room

So maybe everybody's not comparing epistiotomy stories during the NBA playoffs. In Sunday's NYT, Rick Marin tries to lead a rallying cry for dads-to-be who, when it comes to actual birth, would rather wait this one out, thanks, in the...
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June 20, 2004

Waiting for Aiko: Sonogram-inspired Soundtrack

Brooklyn Daddy Type Blake Leyh is a composer and sound designer by profession. During the sweltering days of last summer, after all the nursery setup, the hospital routes, and the breathing exercises were ready--and with the kid taking her own...
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US Marines, New Dads

MarineParents.com, a support and community site for families and spouses of US Marines, posts announcements and photos of kids born after their fathers have deployed. Happy Father's Day, guys. Come home safe and soon....
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Father's Day: Breakfast Out of Bed

The early mornings before the kid wakes up are prime time to get stuff done, no multitasking required. So when I got up this morning, there was a box of Crunch Berries with a bowl and a note that read,...
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Baby Formula Taste Test

What does baby formula taste like? Do the major brands taste different from one another? What are you feeding that kid? In the interests of science, and because we felt vaguely uncomfortable feeding this foul-smelling concoction to our precious little...
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June 19, 2004

Camo and Uniforms for Babies

After seeing so much camo for dads, I thought I'd Google camo onesies*; I hit the jackpot. The one-piece bodysuit jackpot, that is. The military clothing site, Out In Style has a wide range of kid clothing, including a camo...
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Since Daddy Types aren't easily grossed out: The M�tter Museum

Since we're talking comfortably about sucking the snot out of our kids' noses &c... When I was in grad school, I lived a block down the street from the M�tter Museum for a year before I realized it was there....
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June 18, 2004

Chinese Diaper Maker Tries to Trademark 'Bush'

According to the BBC, a Chinese manufacturer applied for a trademark on the brand name, "George Bush." He plans to use it for a line of diapers in his province, Henan. In the local dialect, "Bushi" is a homonym for...
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NPR Story on Involved Dads

What is going on this week that dads are in the news so much? Sheesh. NPR had a story this morning about dads getting more involved with raising their kids. They interviewed Bonnie Erbe, the host of PBS's womens' program,...
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Using One Of Those Suction Nosepickers

The kid went through a sniffly, congested phase a week ago, so be rolled out the needle-tipped squeezeball nosepicker to help her breathe. A couple of awkward attempts caused her to go into meltdown; and very soon, she'd start screaming...
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June 17, 2004

Molded, Modern, Modular Bed for Kids

LA-based designer Pazit Kagel introduced a line of cleanly designed modular furniture for toddlers and children at this year's International Contemporary Furniture Fair. The ply and laminate units can be used for storage and as a platform bed that grows...
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How NOT to Check A Diaper

A helpful instructional diagram [via waxy. He sure learns quick!]...
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2-Seat Share Chair

The Share Chair is a 2-seat see-saw-like rocking chair by the Dutch furniture and design firm Interior Tools. It's similar to traditional Chinese designs, where such face-to-face seats were common on strollers and wagons. Some came with tables like little...
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Dad-Baby Olympics: 6/19 at TWC Border's

Border's Books at the Time Warner Mall on Columbus Circle is hosting a Dad-Baby Olympics and a book release party for Be Prepared: A Practical Handbook for New Dads by Gary Greenberg and Jeannie Hayden this Saturday (6/19) at noon....
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June 16, 2004

Yet another baby site, BloggingUncle.com

It seems the New York blogging elite have tasted the sweet milk of baby-related blogging, and are now forming a writhing scrum to get more. Witness the launch of Andrew Krucoff's BloggingUncle, which promises to "be a resource for...
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Atelier Van Lieshout's 'Bad Furniture' Crib

Joop Van Lieshout is a controversial Dutch artist whose work explores the zone between 'art' and 'practical' objects. His Atelier Van Lieshout in Rotterdam makes functional object/sculptures and installations. The Atelier describes its new 'Bad Furniture Series' like this: "Paradoxical...
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June 15, 2004

Hindu Finger Puppets

You don't have to be Hindu--and neither does your kid--to appreciate these finger puppet representations of the Hindu gods Brahma, Ganesha, Garuda and Kali. My brother-in-law gave these to us for Christmas (pre-kid. he's an artist.), and I think they'll...
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Lucky Strike, 59 Grand St at Wooster St - NO

There's barely enough room to stand up in the bathrooms. Best bet: use the banquette. You're gonna be out of there before 7pm anyway, right?...
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Andy Warhol's Children's Book

In 1983, Andy Warhol made a set of 12 paintings for a little children's book, which was published by the Swiss dealer, Bruno Bischofberger. There's an apple on the cover, and animals (a terrier, a monkey) and machines (a...
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Red, White & Blue Diaper Babies

In the sixties, the John Birch Society outed a bunch of college-age children of Communists who they said were secretly conspiring to foment unrest on campuses around the country. These youngsters were surreptitiously programmed from birth, they said, to destroy...
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Giant Microbe Plush Toys

Ben Macneil reminded me* of Giant Microbes, plush toy versions of disease-causing germs and viruses. This one here is the rhinovirus, which causes colds. The collection runs from the benign (halitosis, athlete's foot) to the calamitous (ebola and the black...
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June 14, 2004

The Right Baby Formula Dispenser

We got this blue-lidded, 3-chamber baby formula dispenser from Munchkin . But we found it leaks so much formula, we had to store it in a Ziploc bag. And it would occasionally leak from one partition to the next, screwing...
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Did I mention the Deseret News? cuz they mentioned daddtypes

Daddy Types was among the sites featured in a funny, nice article on dads and gear in the Deseret Morning News in Salt Lake City. To new visitors from Utah, I say: Welcome, welcome, Monday morning....
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Huggies Disposable Changing Pad

An article this morning in the Deseret Morning News has Blurbomat dad Jon Armstrong sharing this good find, Huggies Disposable Changing Pads, which, he says, have "already saved grandma's carpet on two occasions." Get these at the drugstore; you don't...
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June 12, 2004

California: Jurisdiction of Choice for Surrogacy

As California goes, so goes the rest of the country. Right now, the California court system's advanced case law makes the state the "epicenter of the 'surrogacy industry,'" according to the NY Times. The issues being grappled with in family...
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June 11, 2004

Be Prepared: A (Great, Funny) Practical Handbook for New Dads

I'll come clean. I was a Boy Scout. Growing up, our parents drilled it into my and my brothers' heads that we wouldn't get our driver's license until we finished our Eagle Project. [Needless to say, I got my...
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From the TMI Department

[via the Celebrity Baby Blog] If ever there were a kid wishing he was named after George Lucas's dog, it's Indiana August Affleck, who was born May 31st in Amsterdam, where his dad Casey is filming Oceans Twelve. Apparently, Affleck...
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Dads: not only NOT perfect, sometimes downright stupid

[via a Gawker reader in Texas] "Hilton Furniture owner Jack Hilton, quite a celebrity with his energetic cheap local-only Houston commercials, introduced his baby daughter on a commercial today. He named his daughter Paris. Paris Hilton." Related Tip: Use Google...
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June 10, 2004

Cross-breed your Bugaboo

At first, it caught us off guard, now we're used to it, but we get stopped and/or talked about whenever we take the kid out in the stroller, especially by the dads. Nothing hurts more than having to meet...
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June 9, 2004

Calacanis gives up on Denton, Comes After Me

After getting crushed by crushing Nick Denton and his Gawker-led blogging empire, the notoriously media-whoring SoHo House lush with a blog or two, like a floorful of Cheerios, Jason Calacanis has moved into my sandbox. Weblogs, Inc. just launched bloggingbaby.com....
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Do You Need A Car Seat Leveller?

After buying the perfect carseat on the grey market which fits perfectly into our car, I haven't paid much attention to them. But Daddy Type Jay emailed in with a question about whether to get a car seat leveller to...
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Statistical Analysis of Baby-naming Trends, via The Economist

British researchers studying "the mathematics of cultural transmission" have published a statistical analysis of the emergence of popular new baby names. The Economist reviewed their results. Some key factors: new, non-traditional names are almost 2x more likely for girls than...
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Unruly Ob/Gyn and the Economics of Midwives

Blogger and dad-to-be Eric Snowdeal's wife recently went for her second visit to her Ob/Gyn. When she informed her doctor that they were planning on having a home birth with a midwife, the doctor got angry and dumped her. Snowdeal...
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Seal drives a Bugaboo!!!

"What are people excited about wearing this summer?" "'Baby barf!' said the singer Seal, who has been playing proud step-papa to luscious model Heidi Klum�s 5-week-old baby, Leni. -The New York Observer's report from the Council of Fashion Designers...
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June 8, 2004

New Approaches for Treating Indeterminate Gendered Children

On Slate, Claudia Kolker looks at the latest research and thinking about dealing with "intersex" or gender indeterminate children, a condition with multiple possible causes where a newborn's gender is ambiguous. To some degree or another, it affects approximately 1...
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First Father's Day Gift Suggestions

There'll be no shortage of ties, gold-toe socks, and lumpy ceramic doodads made by uncoordinated little hands in the years to come, so on his first Father's Day, why not think out of the box? Here are some ideas from...
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Public Park, 10th Avenue & 22nd St - CLOSE ENOUGH

But it's almost all kids. Just grab a bench in the back....
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Lukoil, 10th Avenue & West 24th ST - NO

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Exxon, 10th Avenue & West 23rd St - NO

torn down for condos, Summer 2005....
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June 7, 2004

Sports Team Gear

I stumbled across GatorHaven, which has a shockingly comprehensive collection of University of Florida gear for kids, including this nylon jersey replica Onesie (R)*-shaped bodysuit. Well, one Florida post threatens to open up the floodgates. Turns out I could post...
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Black Onesies?

Being New Yorkers, before we knew the gender of our kid, we knew one thing: it's gonna wear black. Of course, that was before we'd stepped foot into the relentless swamp of pink, light blue, yellow, and cream that clogs...
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Programming and Parenting, from Slashdot

This thread's so tame and polite, you'd hardly know it's Slashdot. A programmer expecting his first child wondered if writing code and being a dad are incompatible. The responses and experiences are applicable to parents well beyond the IT department....
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June 5, 2004

Ugly Dolls

I've been meaning to post about Ugly Dolls for a while. We just got a couple for a friend's kid's first birthday, and they're really soft and cuddly. But the main thing they've got going for them is they're not...
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Nest 2: High Chair Boogaloo

For a (currently) child-free guy Josh Rubin has cultivated some very good sources for cool high chairs. (Sorry, fellas--and ladies--he's taken.) As promised, Josh posted details on Nest 2, the upgraded version of Sally Dominguez's modern-friendly high chair. New features:...
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Reel Moms Real-time Report

An unnervingly prompt report from a Daddy Types reader of this morning's Reel Moms screening of Harry Potter, which, by my calculations, got out less than 30 minutes ago. (Yeah, it could've been composed on a Blackberry during the slow...
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June 4, 2004

Urbanbabywatch: What Daddy doesn't know

Reading UrbanBaby's acid-filled message boards, so you don't have to:"Husband's self-centered, clueless and useless" I just had an epiphany about what it means to be a mother versus a father. A mother will set aside her wishes and whims of...
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Krispy Kreme, 141 W 72nd St between Columbus & Amsterdam - NO

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Ridiculously big sunshade for strollers

Like the Friends haircut, capri pants for men, and those ugly sheepskin Ugg boots for anybody, ridiculously big, floppy sunshades on strollers are an instant, unfortunate trend, at least in NYC. They're from an Australian company called Pepeny, which is...
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June 3, 2004

Stroller Lock

The more you shell out for a stroller, the more you wonder about it getting stolen. In Georgetown last week, I saw a Mountain Buggy jogging stroller sitting empty and unattended in front of a townhouse for sale while (presumably)...
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June 2, 2004

LOLOL: Not the product shot Bugaboo was looking for

But it's the scene that every new Bugaboo owner knows well. How the hell do you open and close that thing? The Sun caught Gwyneth's manny and a waiter or two trying to open the Bugaboo. They say it took...
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PlayDine: In-Restaurant Baby-sitting

Last Tuesday, in the early evening, the playroom at Big City Bar & Grill held 10 children who were supervised by two baby sitters. One mother, Chris P. [no sense taking over her Google results], hung over the railing and...
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June 1, 2004

Gucci Baby Carrier

I'm sorry. I admit, I have a closet full of Gucci shoes, way too much Gucci clothing, and even some Gucci luggage. But there's no way in hell I would ever step out with a Gucci baby carrier on. At...
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Staying Cool with a Baby Bjorn

"Papooses are hot"? Papooses are sweltering. The Baby Bjorn may be Sweden's gift to enlightened parenthood, but it's pretty obvious these things were designed by someone living above the Arctic Circle. What I could use is a low-gear-quotient, hands-free way...
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Flash: Man w/Child = Sexy

Apparently the influx of straight families in Chelsea isn't all bad news for the (less-and-less) gay ghetto. Jeff Bennett, who's documenting his and his "Hubby's" sweet-as-pie trip down the surrogate road to fatherhood for Good Housekeeping Planet Out, writes about...
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T-shirts and Creepers for Geeks

If the mere existence of clothing for the children of computer geeks isn't enough to dispel the notion that at least somebody in the IT department's gettin' some, there are pictures. Not, thankfully, of Sysadmins Gone Wild, but of actual...
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