This Saturday, the Little Tikes’ Cozy Coupe will be inducted into the Cleveland’s Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum hall of fame. The foot-powered Cozy Coupe—a shoddy, plastic reproduction of Fred Flintstone’s 7,000 B.C. Flintmobile—sold 457,000 units in 2008, outperforming both the Toyota Camry and the Honda Accord. What this means: Sooner or later, your baby will predictably […]

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While angels are generally sweet-natured and infallible, they get bitchy around bedtime, dreading the long hours of tossing and turning ahead: “You try lying on a pair of lumpy wings when you’re exhausted,” one recently told me. “It’s like sleeping on a couple bricks.” I’m guessing that Marie-Chantal, the ridiculously French designer behind these $75 […]

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While no few parents are perfect, most try their best, especially in areas such as birthday-cake baking where public failure is particularly awkward. Just ask Guinever, a mommy blogger who inadvertently created this object (right) for her son’s fourth birthday. Allegedly a dinosaur, it looks more like a piece of half-digested asparagus. As she explains, […]

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The current obsession with over-achieving parenting has yielded at least one good thing: some beautifully overachieving toys. Rarely before have children’s products been so well-designed. My favorite current example: The reusable fabric wall stickers created by the Australians behind Mae—especially this completely cool update on paper dolls. Ingenious: The persistent problem with paper dolls, of […]

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The cute, comfy maternity look that American Apparel is pushing in this ad (right) is reminding Lindsay Ferrier, the blogger behind the refreshingly coo-free Suburban Turmoil, uncomfortably of one of Willa Wonka’s victims: I mean, really. Every time I look at this poor woman, I think, “Violet! You’re turning violet, Violet.” Also? It’s pretty much […]

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