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Geeky Gifts for New Dads, The Goodfather

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the if-you-buy-this-don't-have-kids dept.

The Moose at Dr.MOZ writes "The Goodfather, 'for the baby he can't refuse.' The Goodfather is a custom-boxed CD-ROM that teaches new dads hundreds of baby skills and baby related definitions through a fun parody of a famous American gangster epic (The Godfather). The baby/parenting topics in The Goodfather CD-ROM were selected for men by experienced dads and grandfathers, and edited by licensed nurse-midwives to ensure the material is medically sound. In addition to the hundreds of baby skills lessons and definitions, The Goodfather also has a Baby Name Book with approximately 15,000 baby names and a Baby Card Maker which allows new dads to make and print their own baby cards. New dads choose from dozens of "new dad" card-types with provided art, or they are able to import JPGs to create their own customized baby cards! The Goodfather runs on both Windows® and Macintosh® systems and is proving to be the next 'must have' gift for the sometimes ignored new dad on the baby shower list."

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  1. How Did This Make Slashdot? by shaneFalco · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How is this on Slashdot? This offers nothing new, nothing exciting. We have had CD-ROM's of videos coupled with card makers for years. This boils down to nothing more than an advertisement for the manufacters of the product. Even, the description the poster used is nothing more than an ad.

    Are the moderaters THAT bad?

    1. Re:How Did This Make Slashdot? by lightknight · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Agreed. If the editors are going to post advertisements, could they at least post something that has a vague connection with the site's content? "It comes on a CD" does not cut it.

      With the current singal-to-noise ratio, we are slowly coming closer to that of TV. The next step will actual posts being subsidized by advertisers.

      "This post brought to you by Microsoft Windows Vista. Vista, for all your computing needs!"

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  2. Is nothing sacred? by Attaturk · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This proud first-time father of a baby thought that the one place I was safe from new-Dad-targeting marketing arsehats was here on /.!

    Where's /. and what have you done with him!?????

  3. Less, not worse. by Leroy_Brown242 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Does anyone remember the time when slow news days meant less posts, insteads of lower quality posts?

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  4. No fancy instructions needed by Max+Romantschuk · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Let's face it: You don't need a bunch of fancy instructions. The basics are really simple, and everything else you pick up as you go along. Parenting and raising kids may be a different issue, but you do not need a multimedia presentation on how to change a diaper. This is a waste of money.

    Trust me, I know. As in my "firstborn were twins and we did just fine".

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    1. Re:No fancy instructions needed by martinmcc · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I agree (I have 2 girls and a new baby, a boy I think, due in a few weeks). I find that pretty much everyone and their dog tries to tell you how to be a parent, and in my view this is a bad thing(tm).

      We are biologically programmed to be parents, it is what we do. Certainly, some are better than others, and there are some that are just plain crap, but in my view the proclavity for telling parent what they should and shouldn't be doing (indeed, can and can't do) does more harm than good.

      In my view, the most important thing to being a parent is being confident and relaxed. This is very hard if you are too wound up about making sure you are obeying all the rules in all the baby book, tv programs, news paper articles and government guidelines. This can make most people stressed, and stressed parents = bad parents.

      Small kids don't understand the spoken word to well, but they are experts at empathy - if you are unsure they will know it, and they will take advantage of it. So long as you are confident in what you do, engage with them on their level, remain consitant (most of the time, we are not robots after all), and use some commen sence, everything else will fall into place. And yes, there are some ppl who just do not get parenting at all and do need some help, that is what families and socity are for, you cannot replace concerned human interaction with a CD-ROM or goverment issued pamphlet.

  5. Press release by jobyl · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Best of all, this wasn't sent in by some enthusiastic customer, it was directly submitted by the people who sell this bizarre product. Next on Slashdot: Crazy Larry's got Low Low prices on Sofas, Hide-a-beds and lazy-boys. Act NOW!

  6. Re:I'm Done. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Yes you can, and you know you can. If you couldn't, you wouldn't have bothered giving a "goodbye post" you'd just have left.

    You'll be back tomorrow, or hell, later today, because for all the crap like this that spews out of slashdot, whenever a good story comes along, and on /. the same one seems to come along every week or so, this is the place your fellow nerds and geeks go to comment on it, and *that* is what makes it worthwhile.

  7. Geeky Gifts? by Sodki · · Score: 2, Insightful
    The GoodFather runs on both Windows® and Macintosh® systems
    What? It ain't that geeky if it doesn't run on Linux.