Geeky Gifts for New Dads, The Goodfather

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."

Comments

Relevancy?

[saskboy]

How are babies related to Slashdot readers, you have to have sex to have a baby! Well I guess you could adopt, there's no law against a geek adopting right?

I think the most important thing for a Dad who knows nothing about kids is to learn more about their kids. Spend time with them every day, even if you don't do much. The kid will set the agenda and you can answer questions as they come up especially since you can use Wikipedia and Google.

How Did This Make Slashdot?

[shaneFalco]

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?

Re:How Did This Make Slashdot?

[nacturation]

Possible responses:

1. You must be new around here.
2. "The Moose at Dr. Moz held a gun to his head, and assured Samzenpus, that either this useless marketing or his brains would be on the front page of Slashdot."
3. "Hey, listen, I want somebody good - and I mean very good - to plant that marketing piece. I don't want Samzenpus coming off of his shift with no CDROM in his hands, alright?"
4. "What am I gonna do? What am I gonna do?" ... "You can start by posting this sales pitch on your website!"
5. "Samzenpus, I am honored and grateful that you have invited me to hock my wares on the front page of your website. And may your first child be a masculine child."
6. [Slashdot readers] "What the hell is this?"
[CmdrTaco] "It's a marketing message. It means Samzenpus sleeps with the salesmen."
7. [Samzenpus] "Someday - and that day may never come - I'll call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, accept this front page posting as gift on my jumping the shark day."

Less, not worse.

[Leroy_Brown242]

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

Press release

[jobyl]

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!

Re:No fancy instructions needed

[martinmcc]

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.