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Sunday Evening Links For Parents

August 11th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized
Aug, 11 2008
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Let your kids learn to tell time using a traditional face clock with somewhat creepy animals on each hand.

In the age of digital clocks you can give your kid a hand up by teaching them to read time the old way… and make it fun with this tortoise, hare and race sign clock. The (somewhat frightening looking) hare represents the seconds, the tortoise is the minute and for some reason I have yet to understand the ‘race’ sign represents the hour.
By way of GearFuse

Next up? A massively expensive reading lamp fashioned in the shape of a centipede. Good deal? Not a chance. Likely to scare your child half out of her mind? Absolutely. Do I want one? You bet I do… can I borrow $2,600?

Coffee make you happy (when your children would otherwise be driving you mad)? Make sure everyone knows it.

Kids will eat anything… and when they do you should prepare yourself to deal with the results. Poo-Pourri

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Barista Training For The Younger Set

August 8th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized
Aug, 08 2008
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Baby barista. Kids pulling espresso shots for you at home. What could be more worth the effort.

One of the great things about an espresso machine is that it takes time to make a good cup of espresso… and one of the bad things about an espresso machine is the same thing. Particularly when you have a horde of screaming kids running around your legs and falling off furniture in the next room.

That got me to thinking. If one is eventually going to be paying the little monsters for doing chores, why not train them early for very specific tasks? Life skills if you will. The next logical step is to fashion some form of barista training for kids.

Logical? Probably not… but if there’s any chance of it working we might as well give it a shot!

Enter the wooden coffee maker available at Anara Toys (via Babygadget). Sure it won’t actually brew anything drinkable… but in this case I think its all about familiarity and mimicry. If you get your child to go through the motions you can introduce fluids and electricity and all that later when they’re less likely to kill themselves and really make a mess.

At about $35 apiece far as I can tell there’s very little downside!

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