Top 9 Puzzling Dora Toys

Adrienne Martini — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:00:00 GMT

Ah, Dora the Explorer. So innocent. So carefree. So NSFW.

The number one puzzling toy on our list has to be the Dora Aquapet. Did anyone run this design past a kid over the age of ten? And do any of the Aquapet's owners wonder why it keeps ending up in Mommy's nightstand?

The rest of the puzzling toys after the jump.

2) Mmmmm...Dora's eyeballs sure are tasty after you bake them in the oven.

3) For the parent who wants to ensure her kid is beaten up every day at recess, there is the Dora fanny pack.

4) Sometimes, the jokes write themselves: The Fantasy Swirl Castle with Balls.

5) The Dora Knows Your Name Cell Phone. It gets its information from the CIA.

6) A 3-foot tall doll with an enormous head? Sure. That's not creepy at all.

7) The Dora Bounce Buddy Talking Trampoline. When you care enough to induce a head injury.

8) Oral or rectal? The Dora digital thermometer goes both ways.

9) Dora's Talking Cash Register says "Gracias for all of the dough! Have some more crap with my picture on it!"

Times Online's List Of Ten Great Parenting Blogs

Patti — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT

UK news outlet The Times Online's Alpha Mummy blog has posted their list of the ten great blogs that every working mum should read--good to know that the US doesn't have the market cornered on the assumption that to be a parent means to be a mother, and the qualifier "working" is somewhat puzzling, as their list is not at all specific to working parents.

The list features a few of the usual suspects: Dooce, Parent Hacks, Kiddley. Also included are a couple of blogs that aren't necessarily parenting blogs per se, but that a parent could definitely benefit from reading: Lifehacker and The Happiness Project. Alpha Mummy rounds out the list with fellow Times Online blogger India Knight's Isn't She Talking Yet, the Wall Street Journal's Juggle, and new-to-me reads MamaPop and Motherhood Uncensored (sometimes I don't know where I am when everyone else is blogging great stuff).

Oh, and the top of the list? Just a little site called Babble.

And now comes the best part of any top-something list: What's Wrong With It. Who's missing from Alpha Mummy's top ten? Is this list really what it claims to be, the top ten blogs for working parents (at least one of the blogs, MamaPop, is written by self-described stay at home parents)? Where all my daddybloggers at?

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Top 9 Puzzling Dora Toys

Times Online's List Of Ten Great Parenting Blogs