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Dad Gives Daughter $200 Contract To Stay Off Facebook

If your kid is spending too much time on Facebook, what should you do? Cut the internet? Annoying for you. Restrict access? Not realistic. Ground them? Haha. What about a signed contract that promises to give up $200 if your kid stays off Facebook for five months? Sounds like a plan!

18 October 2012

Gadgets

Belkin’s WeMo Baby Monitor Turns Your iPhone Into A Babysitter

We weren’t exactly blown away with Belkin’s WeMo home automation system, but for just $US90 its new Wi-Fi enabled WeMo Baby sounds like an affordable way to keep tabs on your kids. It turns your iOS devices into portable baby monitors that work anywhere on earth — at least anywhere you have a mobile internet connection.

31 July 2012

Geek Out

Is This The Best, Most Evil Parenting Trick Ever?

I don’t know who had the genius idea to put up this sticky note, but as evil as it may seem for kids all around the world, it’s the best parenting tip I’ve ever seen in today’s era of underage internet junkies.

20 June 2012

Mobile

More Mums Now Pacifying Kids With Gadgets

The Daily Mail is reporting that more than 1-in-4 mother’s — 27 per cent to be precise — will hand her cranky or bored baby a mobile phone — rather than, you know, something whose name literally means to pacify.

22 May 2012

Online

Mum Embarrasses Daughter On Facebook So Much She Begs For Spanking Instead

You know when you were a kid and you did some dumb kid thing, and as punishment your mum dragged you in front of your friends to embarrass you? Just be glad the internet wasn’t around back then, or you’d be begging for a butt-whoopin’ instead of digital ignominy, like this teenage troublemaker.

5 April 2012

Gadgets

Withings Smart Baby Monitor Review: Always Watching, Always Judging

Babies are helpless. They need things, like food and shelter and comfort, and you have to give these things to your baby unless you are a horrible person. Babies often need things in the night, or upon waking up from naps. And, of course, for new parents, SIDS is a concern, or should be.

6 March 2012

Gadgets

Exmobaby Suit Will Tell You What Kids Are Thinking

Who in their right mind would want to interact with babies? They’re dumb, they leak, they smell (on account of the leakage), and for all that noise, babies can’t even give you a hint as to what set them off. But the new Exmobaby sensor suit just might.

10 February 2012

Geek Out

Watch This Dad Shoot His Daughter’s Laptop

So this happened. It’s a father reacting to a post his daughter made on Facebook. He wasn’t happy. You can skip ahead to seven minutes for the big reveal.

23 December 2011

Gadgets

Hourglass Timer Stool Nixes Tantrums In Just 5 Minutes

Though it looks the part, this stool isn’t a training potty — but it will take the piss out of your kids. It’s actually a giant sand timer designed for time outs, sequestering rowdy ruffians for a calming five minutes.

18 August 2010

Online

Mum Arrested For Facebook Pic Of Bong-Smoking Baby

That’s right, there is a picture of Rachel Stieringer’s baby taking some wicked bong rips. She was arrested for posting the picture on Facebook.

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