Remember the guy that turned his kids' Little Tykes Cozy Coupes into Mad Max-style vehicles? It turns out he works in the film industry. Ian Pfaff took his daughter Junior and his infant son Benji out to the desert and let them loose. A few specials effects later, they've recreated the apocalyptic world of the car chase movie Mad Max: Fury Road.
Just like the movie, this is short on dialogue and heavy on mayhem. Uh-oh! -via Digg
This horse knows what babies like! Just a slight push on the baby seat handle rocks the child and produces smiles and squeals of delight from 8-month-old Ruby. Her mother, Stacey Storer from Nottingham, England, said Ruby was tired and upset before Red started rocking her. That's a good horse. -via Tastefully Offensive
Babies wake up during the night because they are hungry/wet/lonely, and because it's natural for them to awaken. Buzzfeed talked to Darcia F. Narvaez, professor of psychology at Notre Dame University, and other experts about a human baby's natural sleeping and waking cycle, and found out a lot of interesting things.
Human babies are born earlier in their development than other animals – they need close contact or an "external womb".
"Human babies are born 9 to 18 months early compared to other animals," says Narvaez. "Other animals are able to walk around and start eating – we can't do that. We look like foetuses when we're born and we are.
"So that means you want to keep that baby calm while the brain systems are finishing because they only have 25% of the adult brain-size developed, and a lot of systems haven't set their thresholds and parameters yet. They're expecting good care – like in an external womb or nest. We call it the evolved developmental niche or nest."
A baby waking up at all hours of the night is not abnormal at all. What's really abnormal is the world we've created. We learn to sleep through the night because of scheduling conflicts with work, school, and the other people in our lives. Read about the way nature intended babies to sleep at Buzzfeed.
(Image redit: Sian Butcher/BuzzFeed)
If you have school-aged kids, then they're almost certainly out for summer. While some parents let their kiddos do whatever they want during summer break, those looking to keep the younster's minds stimulated might want to head over to Instructables and check out these six summer science projects that are interesting, educational and fun. They can learn about magnetic slime, flower disections, robotics and more!
So if you have kids sitting around bored and forgetting everything they learned last year in school, don't miss this great list.
You won't find a more literal illustration of the title Caught Red-Handed. But Emma is not going to readily confess to an obvious transgression.
Paul Ross shared this cute video of his daughter practicing for her future political career. -via Tastefully Offensive
Image: Baby on Board by Albo
Earlier this year, Buzzfeed asked their readers what the most messed up thing people said to them while they were pregnant and the 22 ones they selected really are eye opening. If you think it's weird for random strangers to rub your belly just because you have a bump, you won't believe what some of these people have said. A few highlights:
"Paraphrasing a coworker when I announced I was eight weeks along: 'Oh you're not really pregnant until you're 12 weeks. Before that, you'll probably lose it anyway.'"
Or there's always:
"I had a much older co-worker say to me, 'You must be having a girl, you’ve gotten very ugly. You see, when you’re carrying a girl she takes away your looks for herself.' I nodded, then cried in the bathroom for ten minutes."
You can read the rest over at Buzzfeed
It's good for expectant parents to be excited about the new addition coming to their family, but actress Gemma Marin was so excited to be pregnant the feeling made her dance with joy.
So Gemma and her partner Israel Duffus filmed their joyful dancing and posted the video to Instagram, which promptly went viral because watching it made people happy.
At forty weeks pregnant Gemma and Israel's dancing was just as joyful only with a slightly different tone- because she was now dancing in hopes of inducing labor.
People loved their videos so much Gemma decided to post another one after baby Alexandra was born, and she promises to post more videos of her happy little family soon!
-Via Shareably
Three-year-olds look adorable and precious no matter what they're doing, but when they dress up and pretend to be famous people they ought to be in pictures!
The little poser in the pic above is Scout, and she has more star power at three than many celebs working in Hollywood today.
Scout began posing for these fun pics when her grandma was diagnosed with breast cancer-her mom Ashley felt the project would be a good way to keep Scout's mind off her Nonnie's illness and take some cute pics for Nonnie at the same time.
Now Nonnie is cancer free and posing for pics along with her soon-to-be famous granddaughter, and Scout is learning what it means to be a strong woman from two generations of strong women in her family.
See Our 3-Year-Old Dresses Up As Famous Strong Women, And She's Seriously Cute here
For most of us mom was our comforter, therapist, soother, teacher and defender when we were too young to understand what was going on, an island of comfort in a sea of madness.
Mother of four Stephanie Vandewalker recently put her motherly skills to work as hail the size of golf balls pounded her minivan while she was waiting for her oldest child to get out of school.
Stephanie's children were really shaken up as the hail beat down and broke the back window, and even though she was just as freaked out as they were Stephanie tried to keep them calm by telling them "We're gonna be OK, don't worry":
I was outside of the elementary school waiting to pick up my first grader, and just as the bell rang the sky started assaulting us with giant hail balls of doom. The hail storm came out of nowhere, and we are very thankful none of the kids had been released from school before the hail began falling. The Honda Odyssey is battered and broken, but the kids are all safe.
(Note: the clip at the beginning of the video should actually be at around 7:22)
-Via Laughing Squid
When people say a baby looks like someone famous, or that he/she resembles a parent, they're usually just saying so to be polite, because most babies look like babies or, in this case, like Cabbage Patch Dolls.
In fact, we should just start telling people their babies look like a certain brands of dolls, because the resemblance is remarkable.
Since the proud parents are likely to get upset if you say the baby looks like a toy rather than either one of them maybe you should just stick to saying "your baby is a real doll".
And if you do compare their offspring to a doll just be careful which doll you compare them to!
In the tale of Snow White she is said to be the fairest in the land, with "skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood and hair as black as ebony", so the snow connection relates to her beauty and her skin tone.
But having never heard the fairy tale you'd probably imagine someone who looks more like 8-year-old Nariyana at the mention of the name Snow White, because the young girl seems to embody the name.
Albinism has turned her hair as white as the driven snow, and her pale complexion makes her look like Snegurochka come to life, plus she's from Yakutia, Siberia, which is home to lots and lots of snow.
Nariyana posed once for photographer Vadim Rufov and the offers from modeling agencies started rolling in, but for now her mom wants the 8-year-old to enjoy being a kid and leave modeling until she has grown up.
-Via design you trust
Mazzy is two-and-a-half years old, but she is learning to cook. She even has a cooking show on YouTube! In this video, she helps her daddy make boba milk tea. It's a pretty straightforward recipe, but Mazzy makes it compelling. -via Digg
I'm sure most babysitters roll their eyes when they see that list of rules or emergency numbers sitting on the counter when they show up, and many don't even bother to read the note.
But those of us who love a good laugh are glad Malik Brazile's girlfriend read and shared the note she found when she showed up to babysit- because it's freakin' hilarious!
The ten item list reads like something many parents would love to leave for their babysitters, unless they're members of the PC police in which case they're pretending they've never thought such things.
The best bit to me- "Don't answer the house phone unless you feel like paying bills". Sounds about right!
-Via Some Parenting
It's a sure sign that you're getting older when you realize your kids are cooler than you ever were. Maybe you'll be lucky and that will happen when they are just a bit older than these children. It's the latest comic from Chris at Lunarbaboon.
Ian Pfaff, of Glendale, California, has a two-year-old daughter named Junior and an infant son named Benji. Pfaff is a Mad Max fan, but he didn't get to see Mad Max: Fury Road on its opening day because Junior had just been born the day before. But the kids are getting the Mad Max bug anyway, because of what their father has created. He took two Cozy Coupes and modded them Fury Road style!
See more pictures of the clever details in these vehicles and their accessories at Buzzfeed.
(Images credit: Ian Pfaff)
