Links Round Up – 2010.01.30
I have an inbox full of PR requests (you know, because I am the ultimate dad blogger). I don't have time to write posts about each one of them individually. In fact, even if I clone myself, I still wouldn't have the time to write a short blurb about all of them (that's why I give priority to giveaways). The best I can do is write short blurbs about a few of the requests I received.
Even Firefighters Go to the Potty
As the title suggests, this kids book is about going to the potty. I don't have a copy of Even Firefighters Go to the Potty: A Potty Training Lift-the-Flap Story ($7.99), but here's a description from Amazon:
Toddlers are uneasy about toilet training. And in most cases, even if they know they have to go, sometimes they are too busy to bother. In this hilarious gate-fold story, each person — from a firefighter on the way to answer a fire alarm to a zoo keeper on the way to feed the polar bears — stops what they are doing to go to the potty. With humor and no pedantics, toddlers learn that everybody uses the potty.
The Firefighters Potty book was written by Wendy Wax.
Coal Train Railroad
The Coal Train Railroad CD ($6.99) is a collection of jazz songs created just for kids, but parents will want to listen too. Coal Train was created by Nashville musicians Katy Bowser and Chris Donohue (Emmylou Harris, Collective Soul) to celebrate jazz and kids. Below are the songs in the album (you can download songs individually on Amazon):
- All Aboard
- My Mouth and Me
- Bellybutton Stays the Same
- Snuggling Suits Me Just Fine
- It's Hard to Listen
- I Need A Nap
- Just the Juice, Jack
- What's Mine Is Yours
- Coal Train
More info: Coal Train Railroad
Little Pim Word Bag
This is an Apple iPhone application designed for children ages 1-4. Little Pim Word Bag, developed by Animax, is an interactive word game featuring Little Pim the panda. The game uses artwork, music, and sound effects to teach children 27 everyday vocabulary words in a second language – French or Spanish (shouldn't the panda be able to speak Chinese?). "Word Bag" costs $1.99 to download and can be used on both an iPhone and an iPod (I'm the only dad without an iPhone, iPod, iPad, or iPotty). This application is the newest product in the Little Pim line, which includes DVDs, flash cards, and CDs.
More info: Little Pim
Sweety High
Sweety High is a social media website for tween girls. It will launch publicly on February 1, 2010. Tween girls will be offered the ability to socialize on their "Lockers," watch and generate original videos on "Sweety Tube," manage their music on "Sweety Tunes," create yearbooks, start fan clubs, craft dedications, take quizzes, and other girly stuff. Although Sweety High is aimed at girls 9-14, dads and moms are encouraged to participate. Parents can create their own account and help manage their daughter's participation in an unobtrusive way. My daughter and I don't have an account, so I have not figured out how they plan to make money with this. My is guess is that some of the activities the girls are encouraged to do involve advertisers and sponsors in some way. BTW, Sweety High sounds a little like Barbie Girls to me. Then again, what do I know. I'm not a tween.
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Even Firefighters Go To The Potty… Yes, but do they remember to put the seat back down? That's the real isue. LOL
Why can't the panda speak Chinese? I would even take it for Mandarin if they didn't have Cantonese. I would get an iPhone just for that APP if it did. Well, really I'm just looking for a justification to buy an iPhone. My first iPod is coming this week. Yay, I'm finally trendy. It only took five years :P
I guess you're cooler than me. The only Apples I have are the eating kind.
Hmmm, I don't know if I'd get the book. Kids know adults go potty. They need to know kids go potty too. It's mostly that they don't stop what they're doing to go potty. They see adults do it all the time. but the toys are just more interesting, I suppose. When we're out, they just want to see the bathroom, not use it. I don't know…. I guess I'd have to read it first.
That's the problem we had with our third child. She just kept trying to hold it in and then it was too late.
They stop going to a FIRE to go potty!?? Ok, I'd be mad if my kid didn't get rescued because someone had a number two.
Hopefully they're not using the toilet in the house that is on fire.
I always thought potty training books were stupid. But, I was proven wrong when my oldest had a hard time figuring it all out and we wound up getting some good books for his amusement. Seemed to put a smiley face on the whole thing. So, yeah. Good choice there :-)
My second and third child use to make me read our only potty book over and over again. It seemed to work for my oldest boy, but not so well with the youngest daughter. She had a habit of waiting too long.
Pretty cool ideas … my son learned that its important to brush and potty right by watching tv lol
I don't get that. My kids are more likely to do something if they see it on TV or if their teacher tells them. Why can't they do it when I tell them?