Modernhood - Parenting with style

Breast milk cheese

Thomas Porter — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:24:29 +0000

New York chef, restauranteur and new dad Daniel Angerer has created a cheese from his wife’s breast milk. Mommy’s Milk Cheese is currently available at Angerer’s Klee Brasserie, leaving local rag The Village Voice to snide: “we’re just grateful that he didn’t get any ideas about his wife’s placenta.”

They’re right, of course, placenta is for teddy bears and breast milk is far too sweet and thin to make a decent cheese. Amateurs.

Mommy’s Milk Cheese: Breast Milk Cheese by Chef Daniel Angerer (via Inhabitots)

BadParent: mousetrap light switch

Thomas Porter — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:28:19 +0000

Being as this is a mousetrap, the most painful finger punisher in the world, and would take your fingernail clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself one question: Do I really need to turn the light on? Well, do ya, punk?

Switch me (via Cribcandy(and Dirty Harry, just because))

Genetics explained, visualised and clarified in one photo

Thomas Porter — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:17:32 +0000

(Via Kottke)

Table house

Thomas Porter — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:44:04 +0000

“At first glance it looks like an ordinary table. But for the one who knows its secret, it can be transformed into a shelter where one can hide from scary sounds, ghosts or family members.”

Daily Shelter by Ingrid Brandth (via Inhabitots)

Xylophone coffee table

Thomas Porter — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:12:43 +0000

You know, the best thing about this rainbow-coloured xylophone-shaped coffee table isn’t that it’s a rainbow-coloured xylophone-shaped coffee table. It’s a ‘playable’ rainbow-coloured xylophone-shaped coffee table.

Music Table $950 by Jellio

LOST maternity T-shirt

Thomas Porter — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:30:23 +0000

A Dharma Initiative hatch for baby. You can buy more LOST-related maternity gifts here – “because we have to go back…”

LOST maternity T-shirt (via Boing Boing)

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BadParent: Whiskey Toothpaste

Thomas Porter — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:21:50 +0000

There’s an old wives’ tale – and a constant in-joke between funny parents – about slipping a dash of booze into a baby’s bottle to aid (or force) sleep. Anyone stupid enough to take it literally obviously deserves to go directly to jail, without passing Go, Free Parking or even Old Kent Road. Whiskey Toothpaste, on the other hand, could be the answer. “Rinse with soda.” Genius.

Whiskey Toothpaste ad from House & Garden magazine, 1961 (via Boing Boing)

Enter doormat

Thomas Porter — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:35:38 +0000

I quite want this. But I’d need an ‘Esc’ doormat for the back door. And probably a ‘Ctrl’ one for the playroom. Because we all know who’s really in charge.

Enter button doormat (via Boing Boing)

Football pitch rug

Thomas Porter — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:12:35 +0000

Anyone who’s ever played Subbuteo (table football) on a flimsy felt pitch will know that this 80×160 cm rug could change lives. Yours for £148.55 from the Scandinavian Design Center.

Football Field Rug (via Cribcandy)

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Your child’s milk teeth as jewellery

Thomas Porter — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:01:29 +0000

Le Knockout is a range of jewellery by Kim Kovel: necklaces, earrings and the amazingly titled “charms of youth.” Why? Because each ‘charm’ is actually one of your childrens’ milk teeth, gilded so they don’t rot around your neck, presumably.

Prices start at around $300.

Recycle your baby’s teeth into jewelry with ‘Le Knockout’ by Kim Kovel (via Inhabitots)