Babby Talk 03.14.24
A podcast your kids (and you!) will actually like, the heinous cost of childcare, tiny vintage Japanese birthday cake toppers and other things floating around in the parenting ether.
Good Thursday!
Today we’d like to ask a question of you. How can we best be of service to parents and parents-to-be? Should we tackle who makes the best highchairs? Where to find excellent kids’ vintage on Etsy? Name all of the good kid shoes that exist? Interview moms in the know? Should we talk about potty training? Birth plans? Easy crafts? Weeknight dinners with/for kids?
Feel free to hit reply or comment below and let us know how we can be of assistance.
Sending love and a few ideas your way.
6 things at least somewhat related to life with kids
Listen: This is a great, bite-sized podcast for musical families. Listen to pleasing music while learning about musical styles, composers and terminology. Little kids who love opera, Nina Simone and Turkish folk music is the world we want to be living in.
Read: Not to scare you too too much if you don’t yet have children but childcare is expensive as hell. And it usually ends at 1pm or at best 3pm so you have to pay even more if you cannot make that schedule work with your job. That is all. Believe. And please read a recent discussion from
about how a family with 2 kids could possibly be struggling to pay for full-time childcare and make ends meet on a 180k salary.Celebrate: Are you the kind of parent that stores those sweet little Waldorf celebratory accoutrements year-round and remembers to bring them out for every birthday? We are envious of your on top of it-ness. And yet, we can’t help but find ourselves deep inside of an Etsy hole searching for vintage Japanese wooden animal birthday cake toppers because they’re too cute and we’re too weak to resist. Send help.
Wear: Most likely, everyone in your family needs a cute pair of fancifully colorful wool socks.
Make: Don’t let those bunches of herbs go to waste! Chop them up and add some olive oil, this will keep them fresh and ready to be used to jazz up soups, salads, and anything else you may be eating these days.
Listen: Poet Raymond Antrobus captures those first feelings of communicating with your little ones.
Something we love to see (but not for ourselves or you or anyone else in the present day):
A few more for the road:
Preserve your treasures from the ocean in a little keepsake.
Strega Nona stamps.
On tape.
Thanks for reading. Please email all constructive feedback with the subject line “I hate you I wish you weren’t my mom.” See you very soon.
Court + Grace
Yes to where to find the best vintage baby and kids clothes!