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• Kids Digital Cameras Come Loaded with Computer Virus

  Did your kids just get a camera for Christmas? If you picked up the Fisher-Price "Kid-Tough," you might want to update your anti-virus software before you plug it in to print out their pictures. One Minnesota family contacted their local TV news crew after powering up Dad's laptop, and trying to upload their daughter's fresh-minted pictures. No sooner had they pulled the kid's eye views up, when dad Jeff Tapper says his antivirus software alerted him that there were two viruses on the camera. Read More... Posted Dec 30 2008, 05:01 PM by JeanneSager with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: computers, Fisher-Price, cameras, christmas presents, Jeanne Sager, kid cameras, kid tough camera, computer virus

• Baby Exploitation and Election 2008

  It's parenting that borders on questionable. It's the kind of thing you do with your kid where you're just asking for trouble. It's shallow, it's risky, it's exploitation of your own flesh and blood. And I love it! A freelance writer and filmmaker from New Hampshire took his itty-bitty daughter all around the Granite State during the heyday of primary election campaigning. He had one goal in mind: getting baby Dahlia photographed with each of the presidential candidates (except Mike Gravel, who he says freaks him out. Understood.)  The result is a fantastic ... Read More... Posted Jan 09 2008, 04:28 PM by Madeline Holler with | with no comments Filed under: newborn, newborns, bad parenting, Slate, absurdity in politics, 2008 Campaign, activities with kids, kids and parents, newborn babies, babydaddy, exploitatioln of children, cameras, campaign, Bad Parent, baby-daddy, election, new hampshire, campaign trail, babies at work

• Big Brother is Watching You[r Kid] On the School Bus

  You decide—good idea gone awry, or just good idea? Apparently the new accessory on school buses is a video camera, recording your kid's every nose-picking moment. The idea is to provide an objective record when there's a bus-related dispute. Hey! Did the bus driver haul off and whack my kid for no reason like my kid says, or does my kid have a bone to pick with the driver because he made him keep his head inside the window and embarrassed him in front of everyone? Who's telling the truth? The camera will know! Read More... Posted Oct 08 2007, 07:32 AM by Karen Murphy with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: kids, ACLU, privacy, video cameras, school buses, cameras