Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing found this ’supposed’ baby bath on sale at John Lewis on London’s Oxford Street. It’s apparently a bucket which the instructions refer to as “womb-shaped” that you are supposed to wash your baby in. The unfortunate reality of this contraption is that it brings on a whole bunch of horrible, bad parent thoughts, like, Baby blender, Baby soup maker, Baby crock pot, and a general water torture device. In some respects this does actually look like a decent idea, sort of. But the “ways to kill my baby” imagery is a bit too much for me. Also I would think it gets harder to wash your baby as you move down the body?

I think an AWESOME addon/mod for this would be a whirlpool feature, so you can actually look like you are blending your baby. Add some red food coloring, or green if you want to pretend you have an alien child.

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Seriously, it’s a watch in the shape of a toilet so you don’t get confused of its purpose. The New Potty Watch by Potty Time, Inc. reminds a toddler to try to go to the bathroom. With the Potty Watch strapped to their wrist, toddlers will be reminded by music and blinking lights to head to the bathroom. At the same time, other toddlers will be alerted to commence beating the tar out of your beloved child who now has a bleeping/flashing nerd target on their wrist.

Parents choose the reminder interval of 30, 60 or 90 minutes between tries, extending it as children get better at figuring out when to go potty, allowing the parent to become even more detached and uninvolved in their child’s development.

Kids can also sing along with the well-known tunes. Potty time lyrics are included with the potty watch instructions. Which will add yet another incessant, overly repetitious song, their already sufficiently repetitive arsenal of tunes.

Of course, Ashley is not yet in the potty realm, so I probably will eat my words on this one and be begging for this thing when she enters that stage.

This is the ‘Squirt’ from Boon Inc. and it caught my eye. The orange bulb like thingy is where you put up to 3 ounces of baby food, which you can then squeeze out onto the spoon for easy feeding. It unscrews to be washed, apparently quite easy to clean. Being that I am only a couple months away from starting solid food with Ashley, I am kind of interested in this idea. At first thought, it seems to be a good idea, making feeding easier. No bowl for the kid to knock over and such. It also has a cap to keep the spoon clean for traveling.