AdventureDad recently wrote about his four-year-old boy’s request for a younger brother. He asks, “Is it foolish listening to the views and desires of a four-year-old boy?” Here’s my take: four-year-olds are idiots. I’m all for whimsy and devil-may-care attitudes. I whole-heartedly endorse and encourage the crazy antics of children. Why, as recently as yesterday [...]

There was a time when I would have paid good money for a device that made kids become thoughtful and quiet when you pressed a smiley face button and zapped their brains with red laser beams. That’d be worth the money for sure. It’s an ad for a $100 no-touch thermometer. I’m not sure why [...]

I just noticed the tag cloud over there on the sidebar (it shows the topics that have been written about here in alphabetical order) lists as the first three topics: Anticpating, Awful, Babies. That’d be a whole other blog. Anticpatingawfulbabies.com is available, if you’re so inclined. :-)

Two related items for your amusement and delight on a Friday afternoon. A pregnant-mommy-in-labor-robot to teach doctors how to deliver babies. And a comic about birth and dignity by xkcd. Enjoy. Mommy the Automaton: New Interactive Simulators Teach Labor and Birth Dignified – xkcd

Happy belated, Sonnet (world’s cutest Fake baby).