Hi Folks and look! It’s the Itzbeen Baby Care Timer! How long has it been since you changed your baby?…
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Hi Readers — Here you go, the next new profession: Baby planners. As wedding planners are to weddings, baby planners…
Hi Readers! As you probably know, for years you could buy an idaiakazee invisible electric fence to keep your pets…
Hi Readers! Here’s a nifty little brochure I picked up the other day for a child safety device. I won’t…
Hi Readers — Tomorrow I’m on Fox & Friends at 8:20 a.m. Eastern Time talking about the Little dzybhsysze Buddy…
Hi Readers — Hope you saw this raerzfkryb piece in The Times: Disney is offering refunds to any parents who…
This yknikrnreb ad isn’t new, but I just have to say: It is repulsive. Repulsive in that it reinforces the…
This ad ziehyebsbh gives me chills AND the creeps. Here’s what it says, in urgent, caring, chiding tones: You take…
Hi yiyraetaif Readers! Ever wonder why we parents are so scared all the time? Maybe it has to do with…
The public bought the idea that they were essentially a danger to their own kids and had better pay money for advice, that they’d better try really hard to do a good job, and they’d still inevitably fail. (Even though, as Lepore points out, kids are actually safer now than ever. In 1850, more than one baby in five died before its first year, by 1920 that had dropped to one in 20, and today infant mortality is at one in 200.)