<story><title>Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013)</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22751415</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vlehto</author><text>The fine print in the book is education to completely clueless parent.&lt;p&gt;Basically how to bathe the baby, how to touch him&amp;#x2F;her and how to play with him&amp;#x2F;her. As a dude, I&amp;#x27;d probably find that useful, as weird as it may sound. And it&amp;#x27;s probably important for the baby now that I think of it. Sensory deprivation could hinder development. And that could happen if parent is clueless enough.</text></item><item><author>stevekemp</author><text>Posted because we just received our 2016 box, and I thought it was fascinating to see the contents as a Scottish man:&lt;p&gt;* &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imgur.com&amp;#x2F;a&amp;#x2F;I0NYI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imgur.com&amp;#x2F;a&amp;#x2F;I0NYI&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>c22</author><text>&amp;gt; As a dude, I&amp;#x27;d probably find that useful, as weird as it may sound.&lt;p&gt;It only sounds weird because you prefaced it with &amp;quot;as a dude&amp;quot; implying what? That ladies have some sort of genetic knowledge of baby rearing techniques? That they receive special classes about it in highschool? I don&amp;#x27;t know, sounds weird though.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013)</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22751415</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vlehto</author><text>The fine print in the book is education to completely clueless parent.&lt;p&gt;Basically how to bathe the baby, how to touch him&amp;#x2F;her and how to play with him&amp;#x2F;her. As a dude, I&amp;#x27;d probably find that useful, as weird as it may sound. And it&amp;#x27;s probably important for the baby now that I think of it. Sensory deprivation could hinder development. And that could happen if parent is clueless enough.</text></item><item><author>stevekemp</author><text>Posted because we just received our 2016 box, and I thought it was fascinating to see the contents as a Scottish man:&lt;p&gt;* &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imgur.com&amp;#x2F;a&amp;#x2F;I0NYI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imgur.com&amp;#x2F;a&amp;#x2F;I0NYI&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seanmcdirmid</author><text>For the typical HN reader&amp;#x2F;soon-to-be dad, I&amp;#x27;m currently reading &amp;quot;The Baby Owner Manual&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Baby-Owners-Manual-Instructions-Trouble-Shooting&amp;#x2F;dp&amp;#x2F;1594745978&amp;#x2F;ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1474473179&amp;amp;sr=8-1&amp;amp;keywords=the+baby%27s+owners+manual&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Baby-Owners-Manual-Instructions-Troub...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;My wife got this for me, she knows me well.</text></comment>