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• Babble Best: Puff the Magic Dragon

  I am both a child of the 70's and a big, big sap, so it stands to reason I would like folk music. There, I said it, in one of my first posts for an urban hipster parenting blog – way to blow your credentials, Ame. Ahem. With both those items in my DNA, I loved Babble’s Five Minute Time Out with Peter Yarrow, of Peter, Paul and Mary fame, and most importantly, the guy who wrote “Puff the Magic Dragon.” Read More... Posted Nov 12 2007, 02:03 PM by Amy Kuras with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: babble best, five-minute time out, Puff the Magic Dragon

• Strollerderby Giveaway: Win a Graco Pack N Play!

  Babble recently reviewed the five best play yards to contain your little mobile ones as part of our ongoing Babble Best series. In conjunction with the review we are giving away a Graco Suite Solutions Pack N Play (a $225 value) to one lucky Strollerderby reader!  To enter send an email to babblecontest@gmail.com. Winners will be chosen at random on Friday, August 31. Good luck!  Posted Aug 28 2007, 10:03 AM by Stefania Pomponi Butler (CityMama) with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Graco Pack N' PLay, babble best

• Things Fall Apart: BREAKING NEWS Stokke Crib Recall

  Babble reviewed this stylish roundish crib from Stokke a few months ago and it was 2nd runnerup, which makes me feel terrible that it's been recalled. It turns out that the crib mattress is too small and leaves a gap, the better to ensnare and entrap your precious baby with. We don't want that. Though injuries have yet to be reported, you can't be too safe about these things. Read More... Posted Aug 23 2007, 12:06 PM by Karen Murphy with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: recall, safety, babble best, Stokke Sleepi crib, oval cribs, Stokke crib

• More on Co-Sleeping; It's Still Invented by Lucifer

  I love surfing through Babble-pedia and finding great written-by-parents articles on everything from ADHD to banking. (Seriously, check it out.) But the co-sleeping section of the online parenting encyclopedia really struck a nerve. Co-sleeping is great. No-so controversial anymore. Everyone does it. Yada yada yada. There's a brief mention of how parents might not sleep soundly, but I don't think it goes far enough. So I'm rewriting it. "Co-sleeping is great for about five minutes or so until your baby starts to kick you in the balls, and then lifts her head high in the air and slams it into your chin -- all night. Co-sleeping should be tried by people who sleep with cups. And not the drinking kind." But I realize I may be in the minority. How would you write it? Posted Jul 09 2007, 10:01 AM by Mike Adamick (Cry It Out!) with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: co-sleeping, babble best, babbies, babble pedia

• Babble Talk: The Joy of Sundresses

  Sundresses are so cheery and flouncy and full of fun.  No wonder so many parents stuff their little tomboys into the pinks and frills despite their protests.  Or, if you're lucky, you have one that requests the sweet little get-ups.  Geri has it right, frolicking with Bluebell wearing matching mommy-daughter dresses.  Oh and flowing locks helps too. If you get goggly trying to decide which dress is for you, check out Babble's Best Sundresses this week.  The delicacy pictured right is the LuLu by M.N. Bird Company and it's only $47.  For more examples of loveliness go here. Posted Jul 03 2007, 10:38 AM by Rachael Brownell (Redsy) with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: babble best, babble talk, tomboy, sundress, dress

• Hitting the Bottle: Strap into the "Car Seat"

  We're going on a five-hour family road trip next week, and if there's anything that goes hand and hand with narrow roads, crying babies and seemingly endless miles until the next rest stop, it's alcohol. Lots and lots of alcohol. The "Car Seat" is Dana's invention, and she wants everyone to know it. She was sipping her favorite cocktail -- a Side Car -- the other day when we both turned the conversation toward our upcoming trip. It was like a light bulb went off in her head. "You know what would go really well with this?" she said, lifting her glass, "More alcohol." Read More... Posted Jun 15 2007, 04:56 PM by Mike Adamick (Cry It Out!) with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Babble, babble best, hitting the bottle

• Strollerderby Finishline: One Free Birth at a Time

  Let's be honest here. You're not reading this. You're one day into the summer's first three-day weekend, and the last thing on your mind is parenting. That's why the kids are playing in a van down by the river, or whichever body of water you've taken them to this fine weekend, while you're back at the hotel-lodge-trailer-tent-wherever giving a whole new definition to the term Wi-Fi -- and it doesn't mean finding a connection to read this. Am I bitter? Just because we couldn't manage to slip away for one day? One, lousy day? No, not at all. So if, like me, you're stuck at home with a sick kid and waiting desperately for date night and wanting something to do, thankfully there's always the good ol' SD to keep you company. Though it sounds like a horrible, itchy disease, you know it as something else: the best in parenting writing. Read More... Posted May 26 2007, 03:20 PM by Mike Adamick (Cry It Out!) with | with no comments Filed under: Babble, strollerderby, Stroller Derby, babble best, Babble Rules!, Finish Line

• Babble's New Blogger is Hot (and a Great Writer)

  Ok I'll admit it.  Sometimes I read daddy blogs to check out the hotties.  And the new Babble blogger Arthur Bradford is no exception.  Check. Him. Out.  Oh and? Obviously a loving attentive daddy and husband.  Awww.  He's the Diaper Bandit and is daddy to beautiful four-month old Elsie and husband to Maggie.  His first post talks about the long road to making and having Elsie and the joys of being a new attractive daddy (not his words). Welcome Arthur!  Next up, "The Men of Babble."  Nummy!   Posted May 02 2007, 02:31 PM by Rachael Brownell (Redsy) with | with no comments Filed under: dads, babble best, arthur bradford, daddy bloggers, diaper bandit, groupie

• Babble Talk: Nuby Victorious in "Battle Sippy Cup"

  Babble's Nicole Feliciano recently put five popular brands of sippy cups to the test, and the brand that came out of top—beating out better known brands Playtex and Gerber—is the candy-colored Nuby. Feliciano likes that the Nuby has no valves or straws, and frankly, I do, too. Washing crusty sippy cups is one of those crap duties of parenting that no one ever tells you about. Personally, I'm a fan of the Evenflo insulated straw cups, they don't seem to get as grungy, and they hold enough liquid to quench a thirsty preschooler's thirst.  What about you?  Got any sippies you'd to recommend?  Posted Apr 16 2007, 01:21 PM by Stefania Pomponi Butler (CityMama) with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: products, babble best, babble talk, nuby, gerber, sippy cup, playtex, evenflo

• Babble Tests Egg Dye So You Don't Have To

  Still haven't bothered to grab an egg coloring kit? Let me save you a little trouble: we review five kits and let you know the scoop. In related news, so far this week I've eaten egg salad on wheat toast, on cheddar-onion scones, and in a tortilla. I expect to eat it in a pita next. Then I'm going to devil some of 'em. Then I still have another dozen or so to deal with. Ideas? Posted Apr 03 2007, 03:58 PM by Patti with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: crafts, activities, holiday, Babble, easter, babble best, easter egg