Warning! Eating Books Could Seriously Damage Your Child’s Health!
Strollerderby

Warning! Eating Books Could Seriously Damage Your Child’s Health!

Does your baby have a book-eating fetish? Mine used to prefer snacking on business cards. Your kid should be safe - so long as the book was published before 1985. If not? Time to don a hazmat suit and bury them deep, deep underground. Why? Well as reported in The Guardian, the US government believes that these old publications might give chil...
Table Tucker
Arts & Culture

Table Tucker

It's the book promising the revolutionise the way we cook. While meal-planning is a growing trend for busy families, Table Tucker takes it to the next level by promising that you'll only cook two out of five week nights! Yes. That's three nights a week you won't be washing up. Read more...
Alphabet Play Book: How To Build An A
Droolicious

Alphabet Play Book: How To Build An A

How To Build An A is an alphabet book that comes along with blocks. It's a fun way for toddlers to learn their letters if they don't know how to write yet. The author, Sara Midda, also drew the charming watercolour illustrations. Read more...
Bookworm Series: Taggies Books
Droolicious

Bookworm Series: Taggies Books

Babies love tags. I'm not exactly sure why, but you can identify the most beloved blankies in our home by the non-existent tag. From popular blankie to adorable book, Taggies will certainly engage your little one. The popular Taggies Blanket is also available in a harder version - the Taggies Book. Youngsters love the colorful pictures and ribb...
All Work And No Play Makes Jack A Dull Boy
Strollerderby

All Work And No Play Makes Jack A Dull Boy

Jack Torrance never won any father of the year awards. Torrance, as you may recall, was the author in Stephen King's "The Shining," who, having moved his family to a deserted hotel to write the great American novel, loses his mind and, ultimately, his life. The fate of his son, Danny, varies from book to movie, but let's just say that papa J...
New Fave Book For My 9-Month Old
Droolicious

New Fave Book For My 9-Month Old

Sometimes it's the simple things (and after Christmas, there's nothing wrong with simple and cheap). Like a book I can read over and over again to my 9-month-old that he never tires of. Despite its cheesy title, Peekaboo Kisses by Barney Saltzberg is just that book. Perhaps it's the silliness of the animals covering their eyes or just the multi...
The 10 Most Popular Bedtime Stories of 2008
Strollerderby

The 10 Most Popular Bedtime Stories of 2008

A recent British survey found that traditional fairy tales are no longer popular bedtime stories for children. So what are parents choosing to read instead? According to The Baby Web Site, which conducted the survey, the top 10 children's books of last year were mostly funny or sweet tales, with a smattering of classics that have stood the test...
Pregnancy Assvice: The Advice You’d Be Better Off Not Hearing
Strollerderby

Pregnancy Assvice: The Advice You’d Be Better Off Not Hearing

A friend recently alerted me to a bizarre glossy handout she received at her local ultrasound clinic. Published by Murdoch Books, Pregnancy Companion it is a week-by-week guide to pregnancy and the first six weeks of motherhood. Nothing wrong with that, except it appears to have been written in 1951 - not 2003 as the publishers claim. Take this ex...
Six Parenting Myths
Strollerderby

Six Parenting Myths

You might think that you are doing the right thing by getting down on the floor and playing games with your kid, or buying every toy their little heart fancies. But according to a new book by clinical psychologist and mother Renee Mill, mums and dads are stretching themselves to the limit doing child-centred activities, to the detriment of themselv...
Sometimes Pulling Tails is Encouraged
Droolicious

Sometimes Pulling Tails is Encouraged

In this wonderful book by Matthew Van Fleet, pulling tails is perfectly acceptable. Catchy rhyming verse, interesting materials, beautiful illustrations and superior craftsmanship make this a "must-have" for every household. Unlike other touch-and-feel books, this one can withstand no...
Droolicious

Our design experts track down the most contemporary, stylish and fun products, furniture and fashion available to the modern parent.

Send your tips to droolicious@babble.com.au.

Strollerderby

God Knows We Need A Laugh / Bad Mothers Club

4:32 PM On the fantastic UK Bad Mothers Club website, there's this brilliant bit called Tantrum of the Week. Sick on the bedroom floor and lazy men and working from home are our fav... read more

What’s The Best Punishment For Kids?

2:23 PM Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy What do you do when your kids misbehave? A poll by the self-proclaimed “World’s Strictest... read more

FameCrawler

W Magazine Amputates Demi Moore’s Hip

5:43 PM Okay, we know the gorgeous mother of three likes plastic surgery, but wasn’t it a bit presumptuous of W magazine to liposuction Demi Moore’s thigh without her approval?... read more

Johnny Depp Drunkest Man In NYC (Brilliant Video)

5:00 PM After an evening out with punk legend Patti Smith in New York on Wednesday night, the newly re-crowned Sexiest Man Alive, one J Depp, looked like he was back on the set of Fear and... read more
Babble Partners