Chicagoist: Baby-on-Board Review: Be By Baby

tobinatortoo

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:41:04 -0600

China free chirstmas must be why I keep seeing Mattel commercials that feature old toys like I grew up with along side the newer versions. It is either really cutting in to profits or the buzz about the possiblity of China free christmas got their marketing depertment going. As for Be by Baby don't get your schedule messed up and show up at a story time that you were not invited to unless you wanted to be treated like garbage. I won't set foot in that place again.

Slaphappy

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:19:04 -0600

Papyrus is quickly becoming the new Comic Sans. Bleh.

julieo

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:13:54 -0600

yes, I do see how this is the American consumers fault. (I'm rolling my eyes right now) Parents around the world, not only in America will buy their children toys or at least a toy whether they have disposable income or not. Parents rely on the toy maker, regardless of where the toys are made, to use non toxic dyes and chemicals in those toys. And they rely on the toymaker NOT to poison children. This page is not a political forum but a place where local parents can go to see reviews for baby friendly places. I agree that child labor is bad, very very bad. But I don't think that has anything to do with this post. And just for shits and grins, where would you like the American consumer to spend all this disposable income you speak of?

Kevin Robinson

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:49:09 -0600

Many of the parents we’ve talked to told us that they will go “China-free” this Christmas, refusing to purchase toys constructed in China. Wouldn't it be great if moral outrage was directed at companies that exploit the developing world not because they poisoned our children, but because they employ the children of the poor? Had American consumers taken their disposable income elsewhere a decade ago, I doubt that the toxic toy debacle would have ever happened in the first place.

JuliaPorter

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:45:40 -0600

ahhh, thank you! I live right by this store and the name has been driving me crazy since it opened.

julieo

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:18:26 -0600

Be By Baby is referring to attachment parenting, meaning be by your baby. I love this store and have been going in there since it opened. Courtney and Kathy are so helpful and the products they sell are GREAT!! I have purchased 2 slings from them as well and numerous nursing supplies. The playgroups and story times are also really fun especially during the winter time. They have a great selection of toys and puzzles as well. I think the best part of the store is the commitment from the owners to helping new moms.

jaymc

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:28:47 -0600

Wait, is it like "be near to your baby"? I just got that.

jaymc

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:17:39 -0600

OK, I've walked past this place many times and I just have to ask: What is up with this store's name? I get that it's a pun on "Be My Baby," but what's the pun? It's not just that it's syntactically weird (although that isn't helping matters) -- it's like, what does "by" even mean in this context? Because even it were something equally nonsensical like Be Buy Baby, I could at least be like, "'Buy'? ... Oh, I get it, cuz it's a store, they have baby things for you to buy." This just makes me think that a baby made everything in the store.