Archive Category: Baby & Kid

Manbabies

Here’s a funny site where the heads of fathers are photoshopped in their kid’s place.

Link: manbabies

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4 year olds arguing poltics over the dinner table

Ha - this is pretty good. A four year old boy and girl argue Obama vs. Clinton over the dinner table. It is a little bit difficult to hear their voices in the beginning, but stick with it - they end up speaking much clearer by a minute or so in. Voices are raised, accusations are made. I wonder if any minds were changed? “I didn’t vote for Bush! I wasn’t even BORN!” [YouTube]

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Bimbo-Proofing the Nursery: Dude Self vs. Dad Self

Like most men, Steve Almond liked to gaze at scantily clad, nubile women - but all changed with the birth of his daughter Josephine. That's when Steve realized that there were two people inside of him fighting for control - he called one the Dude Self and the other, the Dad Self:

Here’s where things become complicated. Because despite being a dad and having all these noble dad concerns about my daughter and all the daughters of the world, I still gaze at media sluts on occasion.

What I’ve come to realize is that there are really two people inside me: the Dude Self and the Dad Self. The Dude Self has an evolutionary mandate. Namely, to get his DNA into all available fertile females. This is how I explain the compulsion toward media sluts, who, after all, sow the fantasy that women exist only for the carnal pleasure of men.

But then there’s the Dad Self. The Dad Self has to worry about the survival of his wife and offspring. It might be said that his genetic material is heavily mortgaged. He regards women differently, especially if he has a daughter. Now he must think about the kind of world in which he’d like her to grow up, and especially how he’d like other males to treat her, which is to say not as a sexual chew toy, but with kindness and respect.

It’s here that my old Dude Self and my brand-new Dad Self come to blows. Because as much as I want to check out Paris and Lindsay, I know I’m harming my daughter by doing so. For one thing, I’m sending her a very clear message: Daddy loves sluts. Be a slut and Daddy will love you. And if you don’t believe that a 1-year-old picks up on messages, you’ve never seen my daughter in action. She is intensely focused on everything in her environment, especially whatever I happen to be looking at.

Steve wrote an interesting article at BestLife on "Bimbo-Proofing the Nursery," i.e. his plan to make sure his daughter doesn't turn out like Lindsay Lohan: Link - via Locust & Honey

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Cat juggling!

OK - not Cat Juggling*, but something almost as good. Baby dropping! Even better, perhaps? YouTube.

*First person in comments to correctly identify the “cat juggling” reference WITHOUT THE AID OF GOOGLE gets a tip of the hat!

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Crying Sumo Contest for Babies

Over the weekend, there was the "crying sumo" contest for babies:

In crying sumo the babies are held up by amateur sumo wrestlers in a ring, and the baby who cries first is the winner. If both babies cry, then the one that cries loudest wins. A total of 84 babies born last year participated in the contest at the temple.

Link | Photo Gallery at Xinhua - via Arbroath

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Babies Laughing, the Video Compilation

Y’know, it’s only after I became a father that I truly - and I mean truly - appreciate a baby’s laughter. There’s nothing like it in the world.

I’d say that a baby’s laugh is proof that God exists and that he loves us, except that Benjamin Franklin had already used the phrase for beer.

Say No to Crack blog has a pretty neat compilation of 7 YouTube clips of babies laughing - some we’ve seen before on Neatorama, and some we haven’t: Link

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Charlie Bit My Finger!

Charlie Bit My Finger, Again is a strangely mesmerizing YouTube clip (viewed over 20 million times!) about two boys having fun. Well, okay, one boy - Charlie - had slightly more fun biting the finger of his older brother.

Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - watch the facial expression of Charlie’s brother - Thanks Jerse!

That’s it. Carry on. Move it a long …

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Big Baby Boy Takes After Parents

Svetlana Singh is 7 feet 2 inches tall. She s the tallest woman in India. Her husband, Sanjay, is 6 feet 6 inches. Their ten-month-old son Karan is already 3 feet 2 inches tall! His mother says he eats twenty times a day.

“He just doesn’t stop eating and never stops growing,” she said.

“He is only ten-months-old and wears clothes designed for five-year-olds.

“Karan has never fitted into baby clothes, even when he was first born he was 2ft 2in tall and was the same size as a normal two-year-old.”

The Singhs are proud of their son and hope he may become a basketball player and attend college in America some day. Link -via Arbroath

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Postal Carrier Catches Falling Baby

Lisa Harrell changed her postal route Monday because she had an Express Mail package to deliver. She was at the proper address at 11AM when a one-year-old baby girl fell out of a half-opened second story window!

“I noticed the upstairs window open halfway,” she said. “The baby fell right into my arms. Everything happened so quick.”

The baby was screaming as she fell, Harrell said, and afterward. But paramedics from the Albany Fire Department examined her and found no visible injuries.

No charges were filed against the baby’s mother, Brenda Morales, but child protective services was notified. Harrell denies that she is a hero, saying she was in the right place at the right time. Link -via Arbroath

(image credit: John Carl D’Annibale/Times Union)

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My Beautiful Mommy: Children’s Book About Plastic Surgery

Florida plastic surgeon Dr. Michael Salzhauer saw an unfulfilled niche and decided to do something about it: he wrote a children’s book about mommy’s plastic surgery!

"My Beautiful Mommy," written by Florida-based plastic surgeon Dr. Michael Salzhauer, is billed by its author as the first book that explains plastic surgery to kids, an issue with which he says many of his patients struggle.

"More than half the women that come in for procedures bring their children with them," he said. "And most parents go into
denial about the surgery with regard to their children."

"My Beautiful Mommy" focuses on a mother explaining an impending nose job and tummy tuck to her young daughter, who is scared that her mommy may look different. Mommy also undergoes a breast enhancement in the book, a fact depicted only through the illustrations so as not to get too graphic for child readers.

Link - via Miss Cellania

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8 Year Old Girl in Yemen Granted Divorce After Forced Marriage

An eight-year-old Yemeni was granted a divorce after her father forced her into an arranged marriage:

"I am happy that I am divorced now. I will be able to go back to school," Nojud Mohammed Ali said, after a public hearing in Sanaa’s court of first instance.

Her former husband, 28-year-old Faez Ali Thameur, said he married the child "with her consent and that of her parents" but that he did not object to her divorce petition.

In response to a question from Judge Mohammed al-Qadhi, he acknowledged that the "marriage was consummated, but I did not beat her."

Yemen, one of the world’s poorest countries, has no law governing the minimum age of marriage.

Link (Photo: AFP Khaled Fazaa) - via Arbroath

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“Young Me Now Me” Photographs

Young Me Now Me is a brainchild of Ze Frank (the man himself is an Internet phenomenon!). Basically, you can submit photographs of the "now" you imitating an old childhood photograph.

Here’s the gallery: Link - via Boing Boing

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Boy Got Butter Knifed in the Head!

When Tyler Hemmert and a friend were sitting on a park bench, a boy became angry and threw a butter knife at them:

"When he threw it, we both ducked," said Nate Leach, Tyler’s friend. "It just stuck him in the head."

The butter knife became lodged in Tyler’s head between his scalp and skull. "It, like, stung like a bee for a while," Tyler said.

Thankfully, the knife didn’t penetrate Tyler’s skull and doctors pulled it out at the hospital moments later: Link (with video) - via Utter Insanity

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Eight Questions About the Human Body That Kids Always Ask

You probably prepare yourself for your children asking questions about the facts of life, but children are full of questions about everything, especially things you never thought about the answer to. Why does hair go gray? The first answer you think of is, “because children drive parents crazy,” but that won’t satisfy their curiosity. Why is urine yellow? I didn’t know the correct answer to that one, and I also didn’t know bilirubin was named after William Rueben. Here are eight such questions, with the short answers for each. Link -via Digg

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Gaffe a Minute

Gaffe a Minute is my favorite new find on the Web. It’s a website dedicated to stories about embarrassing mistakes, clumsy blunders and kid’s innocent sayings.

Here’re a couple of stories from the "Slips of the Young" category:

Kiss and Tell
My kindergartner was disgusted: a girl in his class liked him. She followed him everywhere and talked to him nonstop. Then one day he returned from school distraught. Kaitlyn had kissed him! “Where did she kiss you?” I asked, thinking, Forehead? Cheek? Lips? My son answered in a dramatic, horrified whisper: “In the library!”
—Liz

Burning Issue
Our local firefighters taught my six-year-old’s class what to do if they ever caught on fire. Several days later, while cooking dinner, I accidentally set off our smoke alarm. My son, who happened to be standing nearby, suddenly dove to the floor and started rolling across it while yelling, “Stop! Drop! And roll!”
—Katie

And yes, you can submit your own gaffes: Link - via Presurfer

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Parents Fight Over Which Gang Their Kid Should Join!

Parents normally fight to keep their children out of gangs, but not this one: the mother is a Crip, and the father is a Westside Baller. And they got into a fight over which gang their 4-year-old toddler should join!

On Saturday, Joseph Manzanares stormed into the Hollywood Video store where his girlfriend worked, threatened to kill her and knocked over several video displays and even a computer, Commerce City police Sgt. Joe Sandoval said. [...]

His girlfriend told police that they had been arguing about the upbringing of their son and which gang he should belong to. The teen mother, who is black, is a member of the Crips. Manzanares is Hispanic and belongs to the Westside Ballers gang, the woman said.

"They have different ideas on how the baby should be raised. Basically, she said they cannot agree on which gang the baby would ‘claim,’"Sandoval said.

Link - Thanks Tiff!

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Yoo Ye Eun - Blind Piano Prodigy

Five-year-old South Korean Yoo Ye Eun has been blind since birth but can play songs on the piano after listening to the tune just once. She is far from perfect, as she has never had a lesson, but her performance and personality touched everyone during the broadcast.

Via Arbroath

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Sarkozy: Fifth Graders Should Learn About the Life of 1 of the 10,000 French Children Killed in the Holocaust

Earlier last month, French President Nicholas Sarkozy proposed that every fifth grader learn about the life story of one of the 11,000 French children killed by the Nazi in the Holocaust.

“Nothing is more moving, for a child, than the story of a child his own age, who has the same games, the same joys and the same hopes as he, but who, in the dawn of the 1940s, had the bad fortune to be defined as a Jew,” Mr. Sarkozy said at the end of a dinner speech to France’s Jewish community on Wednesday night. He added that every French child should be “entrusted with the memory of a French child-victim of the Holocaust.”

Needless to say, his plan was controversial. His political opponents derided the idea, psychologists and educators claimed that it would traumatize the students. One Holocaust survivor noted:

“It is unimaginable, unbearable, tragic and above all, unjust,” Simone Veil, a Holocaust survivor and honorary president of the Foundation for the Memory of the Holocaust, told the Web site of the magazine L’Express. “You cannot inflict this on little ones of 10 years old! You cannot ask a child to identify with a dead child. The weight of this memory is much too heavy to bear.”

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I came about this story from a thought-provoking post by Jessica Helfand of Design Observer. She wrote:

Meanwhile, schoolchildren are typically taught history by fact and by date. They memorize key battles and identify significant acts of legislation, a process intended to highlight those benchmarks of civilization with which we should all aspire to fluency. Curiously, the notion that making history human would devalue such learning seems odd, if not entirely oxymoronic: if we read and analyze fiction to come to a better understanding of our own humanity, why would we not derive similar lessons from our own history?

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Would you let your 9-year-old ride the subway alone?

Lenore Skenazy writes about her son’s first solo subway and bus trip in the New York Sun. He had been preparing for the chance, and knew how to read a subway map. The 9-year-old made it home just fine, but half the people who heard about it thought it was too dangerous. What do you think? How can we balance the remote risk of crime with the necessity of teaching children to negotiate the world on their own? Link -via Reddit

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The Best Song EVAR: The Elephant Song by Eric Herman

If you have young children, or if you’re young at heart, this is the song for you: The Elephant Song by Eric Herman (video created by Eric’s wife Roseann with the help of their 3-year-old daughter Becca. The little girl in the song is Meghan, who was 6 at the time).

Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - Thanks Christophe! | Don’t forget to check out Eric’s webstore: Link

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The Obama Kid

Forget the Obama Girl … Here’s the Obama kid: Jeff Simmermon of And I Am Not Lying blog wrote to us about his friend’s toddler whose political preference was already set at such an early age. (Note how he has to get the last word in!)

Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via And I Am Not Lying, thanks Jeff!

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Caption Monkey 25: Toilet Uh Oh!

Photo: massdistraction [Flickr]

Folks, it’s time for this week’s Neatorama and Hobotopia’s Caption Monkey game. But first, the story behind this photo, from Flickr user massdistraction:

I’m going to burn in hell for posting this…but here’s the story. Many years ago the little man went to daycare daily, while I worked full-time. He wasn’t yet potty-trained but would wander into their bathroom, express some interest (as the older kids used the potty) then wander out again. Usually. On this day he somehow managed to get himself stuck in the toilet. The daycare provider’s first instinct was to grab a camera and snap off a photo before helping him out. I was both appalled and amused (and felt guilty for the latter).

Now, on to the game: place your caption in the comment section. One caption per comment, please, but you can enter as many as you’d like. The funniest caption will get a prize: Adam "Ape Lad" Koford’s Meet the Laugh-Out-Loud Cats, which details the adventures of Kitteh and Pip in over 250 comic panels.

If you like Adam’s old-timey LOLcat cartoon (many found in his Flickr set), then you’ll love this book!

Good luck (if you don’t win, you can still get his book at Lulu).

Update 4/4/08: Congratulations to Nora whose caption “Mario Lied to Me!” won! Woohoo, way to go, Nora!

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Sardoodledom

(YouTube link)
The kid at the spelling bee had never heard of the word, but neither had I. It is pretty funny! Try to use sardoodledom in a sentence sometime this week. -via the Presurfer

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The Accidents of Youth: a 1819 Book About the Gory Consequences of Not Heeding Your Mom’s Advice

The Accidents of Youth is a 1819 book of short stories to warn children of the dangerous temptations they should avoid and the gory consequences for not following their mother’s advice. Along with the text, there are several wonderful engravings to illustrate the situation.

This particular one is about the hazard of teasing a cat:

My mother used to say, ‘Simon, you will be bitten, or scratched, or get kicked;’ but I listened to nothing that she said, and continued to do as I pleased. I was soon punished, as you will hear.

"One of our neighbours had a Tom-Cat, whose whiskers were as long as my finger. I amused myself by pulling the hairs. &c.; for, as I have already told you, I was then as naughty as you are. My mother never ceased repeating to me, - ‘Simon, the cat will scratch you, if you do not let him alone.’ I took no notice of what she said, but went on my own way. One day, when the Tom-cat was in a worse humour than usual, and determined to defend his whiskers, he threw out his paw so nimbly, that he scratched me in the left eye, and burst it. Thus, for not having paid attention to the commands of my mother, God punished me with the loss of an eye.

Link [PDF] - via Internet Archive | More selection of fantastic children’s book from the Internet Archive at STWALLSKULL Blog

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Tricks of the Trade: Selling to Children

The following is from Uncle John’s All-Purpose Extra Strength Bathroom Reader. Selling to kids is big business - children directly control and spend $24.4 billion worth of goods every year, and they influence parents to spend upwards of $300 billion. Naturally, corporations are very interested. Here are some of the tricks of the trade businesses use to get your kids (and their parents) to spend the big bucks. (From a Mothering Magazine piece by Gary Ruskin). NAG, NAG, NAG Cheryl Idell knows a lot about nagging. She’s written reports for major corporations with such titles as "The Nag Factor" and "The Art of Fine Whining." She tells her clients that nagging spurs about a third of a family’s trips to a fast-food restaurant, to buy children’s clothing, or to rent a video. Idell, chief strategic officer for a major market-research firm, speaks with the cold precision of a physicist. "Nagging falls into two categories," she explains. "There is ‘persistent nagging,’ the fall-on-the-floor kind, and there is ‘importance nagging,’ where a kid can talk about it." [She considers] either a good first step. But alone they’re not enough. Idell advises Chuck E. Cheese and numerous other corporations that getting kids to whine is even better. Better yet is to give them "a specific reason to ask for the product." In other words, Idell’s job is to make your life miserable. She even rates brands according to their "nag factor" - that is, their capacity to make your children badger you - and companies toil mightily to rate high on her list. Some of the most successful are McDonald’s, Levi’s, Discovery Zone, Burger King, Pizza Hut, Disney, and OshKosh. (Like we couldn’t have guessed.) WANTED: YOUR KID Now meet George Broussard. He is co-founder of 3D Realms, a company that makes a video game called Duke Nukem. A violent "first-person shooter" game, Duke Nukem comes complete with strip bars, porno theaters, and lots of gore. Even with the "mature" rating, and all the violence and sexual imagery, Broussard wants to sell this game to your kids. "Duke is a mass-market character that can sell two million games," Broussard says." It’d be suicide to make the game unplayable by younger people." Idell and Broussard are typical of something endemic in America today. Thousands of the brightest minds in the country devote their great talents, and use sophisticated psychological techniques, to influence your children to purchase products - o rather, to want products - regardless of whether or not they are good for your kids. Name something you don’t want your kids to have, and chances are, people are trying to entice your kids into wanting it. WHAT ARE CHILDREN ANYWAY? James U. McNeal, a professor of marketing at Texas A&M, is perhaps the foremost expert on selling to children. He is the elder statesman advocating a shift in our thinking from viewing children as trusting, impressionable humans to be protected to seeing children "as economic resources to be mined." His emotional response to this contrast isn’t the same as yours. McNeal sees the money in your kids and helps corporations get access to it: "Children are the brightest star in the consumer constellation," he writes. McNeal divides the booming kiddie market into three parts: There’s the "primary" market - the $24.4 billion each year that kids directly control and spend. There’s the "influence" market, perhaps as high as $300 billion, the amount of parental spending that children can directly or indirectly influence. And there’s the "future" market, which is the purchasing that children will do for the rest of their lives. BUY-BUY BABY "Virtually every consumer-goods industry, from airlines to zinnia-seed sellers, targets kids," McNeal enthuses. Johann Wachs, the vice president of Saatchi and Saatchi’s Kid Connection unit, agrees: "Marketers are just waking up to the enormous possibility of kid-targeted products," he says. "As kids become more powerful as consumers, they are being targeted more directly." Children aren’t hard to take advantage of. They tend to trust adults even when they shouldn’t - sometimes especially when they shouldn’t. Marketers know this, while most children don’t grasp the motives behind advertising or realize that the products advertised may not be good for them. However, none of this is troubling to the new breed of advertisers and marketers. If they have any qualm, they do a good job of repressing them. Like investors in prime real estate, they see children’s mind as kind of cash cow. "If you own this child at an early age, you can own this child for years to come," explained Mike Searles, president of Kids-R-Us, a major children’s clothing store. Companies are saying, ‘Hey, I want to own the kid younger and younger.’" Wayne Chilicki, a General Mills executive, agrees: "When it comes to targeting kid consumers, we at General Mills follow the Proctor & Gamble model of ‘cradle to grave,’" he says. "We believe in getting them early and having them for life." BE COOL Advertisers infuse their pitches with messages that target the weaknesses and insecurities of children. "Advertising at its best is making people feel that without their product, you’re a loser," explained Nancy Shalek, president of the Shalek Agency. "Kids are very sensitive to that. If you tell them to buy something, they are resistant. But if you tell them that they’ll be a dork if they don’t, you’ve got their attention. You open up emotional vulnerabilities, and it’s very easy to do with kids because they’re the most emotionally vulnerable." Moreover, some marketers try to sell by tapping into destructive and antisocial urges. According to Rick Litman, a partner at Kid 2 Kid Market Research, the goal is "to use youth rebellion to more effectively target a product and sell a product." More than anything, they want your children’s minds. "Kids marketing in general is becoming more sophisticated," says Julie Halpin, CEO of Gepetto Group, which specializes in marketing to kids. It is a competition for what she calls "share of mind." Corporations claim this "share of mind" from every possible angle. They seek to engulf your children with ads. "Imagine a child sitting in the middle of a large circle of train tracks," one market researcher explains. "Tracks, like the tentacles of an octopus, radiate to the child from the outside circle of tracks. The child can be reached from every angle. This is how the [corporate] marketing world is connected to the child’s world." MARKETERS GO TO SCHOOL Marketers are resorting to extreme measures to gain access to our children. They’re invading sanctums that were previously off-limits, such as schools. For example, Channel One is a marketing company that uses TV "news" shows as a come-on. Its daily broadcast shows 10 minutes of "news" and 2 minutes of ads to captive audiences of 8 million children in 12,000 schools across the country. While promoted as "education," the real appeal is to advertisers. "The biggest selling point to advertisers," says Joel Babbit, former president of Channel One, lies in "forcing kids to watch two minutes of commercials." The atmosphere of the school is an advertiser’s dream, Babbit says. "The advertisers get a group of kids who can’t go to the bathroom, who can’t change the station, who can’t listen to their mother yell in the background, who can’t be playing Nintendo, who can’t have their headsets on." A new company called ZapMe! has extended this strategy to computers. Like Channel One, ZapMe! offers free equipment to schools - computers and Internet browsers. In return, it advertises to kids, plus it gets a market-research gold mine. The company snoops on schoolchildren as they browse the Internet and then delivers the information to advertisers and marketers. According to Associated Press, ZapMe! "breaks down the data by age, sex, Zip Code. It delivers this information to advertisers and marketers, who use it to target students in school with laserlike precision." THE LESSON IN THE ADS Kids are eager learners. "Advertising targeted at elementary school children," Professor McNeal says, "on programs just for them works very effectively in the sense of implanting brand names in their minds and creating desires for the products." Further, it is well known that RJR Nabisco’s Joe Camel ads hooked hundreds of thousands of children into smoking. And Anheuser-Busch created Budweiser ads so captivating - with frogs, penguins, and lizards - that they were kid’s favorite ads in 1999. This is great news for ad agencies and for the corporations they work for. Business is booming. Some win kudos from their corporate peers. The owner of McFarlane Toys, Todd McFarlane, was recently given an award by Ernst & Young for creating a bestselling line of grotesque and violent "Spawn" toys and comic books. Would McFarlane let his own daughters have these toys or comic books? "Are you kidding?" he says. "I’m still a dad after five o’clock." The article above is reprinted with permission from Uncle John’s All-Purpose Extra Strength Bathroom Reader, which was published in 2000. Note: Channel One has continued financial loss until it was sold in 2007 whereas ZapMe! has gone bankrupt, but I’m sure the message is still relevant today.

The 13th book in the series by the Bathroom Reader’s Institute has 504-all new pages crammed with fun facts, including articles on the biggest movie bombs ever, the origin and unintended use of I.Q. test, and more. Since 1988, the Bathroom Reader Institute had published a series of popular books containing irresistible bits of trivia and obscure yet fascinating facts. If you like Neatorama, you’ll love the Bathroom Reader Institute’s books - go ahead and check ‘em out!

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Saved by a Toddler

2-year-old Joshua Brookes dialed 999 when his mother Isobel fell unconscious. The operator was able to keep Joshua on the line long enough to trace the call to his home in Wigan, England. She instructed Joshua to let the policeman in, although he had to stand on a box to reach the door handle. Isobel, who suffers from a rare heart condition, was taken to a hospital and has made a complete recovery.

Back at home in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Isobel said she had taught both Joshua, now three, and his older sister Amy, six, how to dial 999 in an emergency as soon as they could talk because her heart condition makes her prone to passing out.

She said: “Amy has done it before, but she was at school this time. I didn’t know anything about it until I woke up with a paramedic standing over me.

“Joshua did really well. I’m really proud of him.”

Link (with audio clip) -via Arbroath

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Two-Faced Baby in India

This two-faced baby, born in a small rural village in Northern India just a couple of days ago, has already attracted a lot of worshippers:

Word spread quickly among villagers about the newborn baby girl.

The baby is seen as an incarnation of God and people make offerings and ask for the baby’s blessing.

Link (with video clip) - Thanks Emperor and Holly Schroeder!

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Paper Bag Costumes

Sometimes, too much creativity is really, really bad. Take, for example, this scan from an old issue of McCall magazine telling parents to decorate paper bag costumes for their kids:

Decorated paper bag costumes are easy to create. Children can design their own bright creature costumes for dress-up and party time. Paper bags become colorful creatures from another planet when children let their imaginations go free to maek their own fun faces or those shown here. Use large paper bags (approximately 24" x 32") from the cleaners - do not use plastic bag. Paint, then decorate each bag with scraps of yarn, bright paints, colored paper, and glitter to make the fun-face costume. Cut small holes in top of bag for vision; vary face by creating animal creature with holes at sides so arms can extend in hornlike fashion.

On second thought, if you don’t have stairs in your house, these costumes are genious!

Link - Thanks Rian Fike!

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Giant Baby in Iran

HOLY MOTHER OF GOD! This 6-month-old baby, born at normal weight in Tehran, Iran, weighs 20 kg (44 lb). Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] (does anyone know what they were saying?)

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Son: I’m Late for My Tennis Class. Father: Don’t Worry, Hop on My Plane!

Problem: your son is late for his tennis lesson, and the roads are so congested that you can’t possibly make it on time in a car.

Normal Dad Solution: Call and tell them you’ll be late or just reschedule the lesson.

Really Dedicated Dad Solution: Fly and land your airplane in a golf course next to the tennis club!

Guess which one Robert Kadera, 65, of Lake Villa, Illinois choose:

Police received worried calls about a plane circling twice, then touching down at the Crane’s Landing golf course at the Marriott Lincolnshire Resort. Officials thought they might have a crash, with victims to attend to.

Instead, they found Robert Kadera, 65, and his 14-year-old son trudging through the snow, Prince racket and a bag of tennis balls in hand. They had parked on the 7th fairway, just 20 feet south of the retaining wall for Illinois Highway 22.

"We’re all pretty dumbfounded," Lincolnshire Police Chief Randy Melvin said Monday. "I don’t have any idea what the guy was thinking. ….. He was going to park his plane across the street like nobody would notice."

Lisa Black and Emily S. Achenbaum of Chicago Tribune report: Link (Photo: David Trotman-Wilkins / Tribune)

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