This should impress the kids: a personalised video message from Santa, courtesy of Google. More »
Flying with family is always stressful, and even more-so if you’re flying with small children, but no one on a plane — including you — appreciates it when a child starts wailing in their seat for no reason. The Daily Traveler notes that one way to handle the situation without raising the ire of your fellow passengers is to distract the child by whispering questions to you so they feel compelled to quiet down and respond. More »
These days kids not only want video games and traditional toys but also online tokens, “soul gems”, and other digital currency items for the games they play online. If you’re a parent and allow your child to play these types of games you have to decide where they will fund the extras the game will require — do you just pay for it yourself or do you make the child use their allowance? More »
Elimination communication claims that parents can mostly if not completely eliminate nappies by instead learning to predict when the baby needs to go and inviting the baby to urinate or defecate by using a cueing sound that the child eventually associates with going to the bathroom as a Pavlovian reaction. More »
DIYer Ben Heck shows us how to lull babies to sleep by mimicking the motion of a moving car, using an Android phone and an Arduino kit. More »
