When I am not too busy with my day job, I occasionally dive into the Twitter for DadWagon. And today I ran across a company there–UpSpring–that makes a product called MilkScreen. I don’t know about the rest of their inventions–the toddler-tether and the hip-squeezer seem a touch absurd–but the idea behind MilkScreen is inspired: a home …
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Banning Bill Martin, Jr.
This one made the rounds quickly this morning: the Texas State Board of Education banned Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you See?, written by Bill Martin, Jr. and illustrated by Eric Carle, because Martin has the same name as an academic who once wrote about Marxism. One of my old colleagues at Time sent the story …
The Tantrum: Should dads go to birthing class?
(This is the Tantrum, in which the four Dadwagon editors debate an important, or sometimes pointless, issue in parenthood.) Good ole Butterfly Mcqueen–certainly captured the whole deal about birth didn’t she (for those of you who don’t know the reference, McQueen is the actress best known for playing Prissy in Gone With The Wind, who …
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You Dropped Food? Check this Flowchart
Pure genius from the Foodie Blog at SF Weekly, passed on by the mighty John F. I am going to break this out for my 4-year-old daughter the next time she goes scrounging for floor gorp. I may not convince her, but at least she will learn what an Emausaurus is, and why it should …