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American Plastic Toys Folding Slide assembly review video
This is just commentary on, and a video of what’s involved in assembling the American Plastic Toys Folding Slide. As I’m writing this while baby is sick, she’s not going to be playing with it for a...
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Building the ultimate baby music system using a deactivated cell phone
If baby’s getting tired of crib-phones, this article is for you. No, I have no idea whose baby this is. Maggie used to like listening to Willie’s Roadhouse on Sirius/XM. Unfortunately the streaming app...
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Configuring iOS for little hands
Step one: settings, general, accessibility (click to expand) If you’ve ever attempted to work with educational software and a small kiddo, you’re probably aware that the iPad button is the most...
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How to clean a Britax Marathon car seat
It finally happened. At 18 months our Britax Marathon 70-G3 Convertible Car Seat became a hotbed of spilled milk, baby farts, Cheerios, and juice. It needed to be cleaned. If you’ve ever wondered how...
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Use a deactivated cell phone for a safer Halloween
As Halloween approaches, some kids will be planning on venturing out with friends trick-or-treating, some will be walking from your car parked at the street corner to the front door, and some will be...
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How to keep a kid in an Android app
You’ve got a toddler or baby and want to keep them confined in one application / don’t want them sending garbage text messages and deleting people from your contacts. We’ve touched on Baby UnTouch...
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Poppy seed bagel life hack
Up fairly early this morning and not wanting to make more mess until I had a chance to unload the dishwasher I eyed the bag of poppy seed bagels taunting me with their goodness but annoying the crap...
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How to rig a faucet extender for toddlers
This is the faucet I did this on. Pretty standard. American Standard if I recall correctly. Something they taught Maggie at daycare is to wash her hands. This seems to be part of her world now and not...
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Unexpected WordPress admin slowness
Little off-topic for theITbaby, but something we ran into and fixed and I figured I’d share. As of last week with no changes to any hardware, software, or ISP the back end of theITbaby (WordPress...
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How to craft a viral baby blog
After reading a few things that unfortunately came across my feeds, I think I have divined the manual for how to craft a viral baby blog post that profits the author directly. Find a fear, exploit that...
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How to read that Ebook on any device you own
Assuming you’ve gotten an EPUB, Mobi, or PDF you can read any of the common formats on any Apple, Android, or Windows device and swap reading between them without ever missing what page you’re on. To...
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How to save those toddler YouTube videos for offline playback
There are things I never thought I’d do as a parent, right up there with pulling a stuck poop ball out of a toddler’s butt is saving a copy of an hour long Wheels on the Bus video to my phone so she...
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How to add Google Play to your Amazon Fire Kids edition
This article assumes you want to add the Google Play Store and associated services to the Amazon Fire Kids Edition tablet running Bellini (5.0.1). It also assumes you know a little bit about rooting...
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Magic baby hold? Flesh swaddling.
There’ve been a lot of videos and reporting on the magic baby hold, that’s a hold where you can get a baby to stop crying in next to no time. We’ve been using a variation on it to get Aerin to sleep...
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Waking the sleeping beast with toddler logic
Not even all the toys could wake her Maggie’s occasionally been absolutely exhausted in the morning, a total bear. No particular reason I can think of as bedtime is the same. Probably a growth spurt....
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You don’t have time to be hacked: add security to Facebook
Step 1: on a browser – down arrow, settings You’ve been using the same format of passwords on eleven trillion websites you use. Who has the time to keep up with generating a new and special password...
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