If you ever needed an excuse for having a baby, watching its face when eating a lemon for the first time is a pretty good one.
Babies
The gayby boom
How can you be a mother if you never gave birth? Are gay parents the next major cultural phenomena? Why are people scared of gay dads? Amie Klempnauer Miller talks gay parenting.
Can babies tell right from wrong?
Are babies moral beings? Babies aren’t clueless and can count, make moral judgements on behaviour, feel other people’s pain and understand how others view the world — all before they can speak.
The sucky history of dummies
To suck or not to suck: that is the question every parent agonises over for their slobbery, screaming little bundle of joy. So are dummies good or bad for babies? No one actually agrees, but “experts” have been squabbling about it for over 100 years.
The A-B-C of parent advertising: Always Bright Colours
Advertising aimed at parents revolves primarily around cutesy cartoon images, like Winnie the Pooh on nappies. Why do marketers assume that having a child makes parents become infantile too?
A crap advertising idea
Ogilvy Brazil’s new ads for Huggies show babies making “their most determined pooping faces”. Surely something to remember for the 21st birthday?
Video of the Day: The terrifying world of baby and tween fashion
Leopard print, baby heels and tweens with publicists. It’s all at this expo for baby and tween fashion.
Everything you think you know about babies is wrong
An interview with developmental psychologist Alison Gopnik who thinks babies “are useless on purpose”.
