This Blanket Is Going To Save Your Marriage
There’s an infomercial that’s currently making its way around the Internet – one that claims a product called The Better Marriage Blanket can solve “the problem in the marriage bed that nobody likes to talk about”. I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that it’s probably not the problem you’re thinking it [...]
From The Never-Too-Early Files: Toys For Training Mini-Miltons
Because a $2,500 computer workstation built into a durable, easy-to-clean plastic molded surface that can take the rough and tumble ways of the next generation of Miltons and Dilberts is exactly what the world needs. * * *
Hurray For Barbie: Two Snappy New Careers And One Really Bad Typo
Barbie. She’s a household name. I had a whole mess of Barbies; I dressed them up, brushed their hair and created lives for them when I was a kid, and I’ll bet that many of you did, too. I always dressed mine in a fancy silver ball gown with red velour hearts on the sleeves, [...]
Bad From The Past: The Day My Kid Went Punk
I’m a child of the 80s, which means I spent the better half of the decade drinking my fair share of Tab, aspiring to grow up and be as cool as Jem (please tell me that some of you remember Jem and the Holograms and loved it as much as I do did) and, of [...]
Bad Parenting, Mad Men Style
Did Don Draper come up with these ads? Because, seriously. Putting a hat on the Marlboro baby is just overkill, and I expect better of him:
Making Your Tyrant Baby Work For You: Gordon Gekko Edition
So you remember the other day, when I was explaining about how Jean-Jacques Rousseau argued that babies are hard-wired to try to make us their bitches and that the keys to surviving baby tyranny are to a) educate them, such that their tyrannical impulses are reprogrammed in such a manner that they can learn to [...]
Dear Huggies GoodNites: Bad Advertising Means ALWAYS Having To Say You’re Sorry
So the ad agency that made those horrible, skeevy Korean Huggies ads? They e-mailed us about the post that we wrote about their horrible, skeevy ad. They are very sad about that post:
