Make your children work for their keep
After the birth of a child there's always the temptation to say 'Yes, it's cute, but what can it do?' Until recently the answer was simply 'lie there and cry', but now babies can be put on the payroll, so to speak, almost as soon as they're born.

Just dress your young one in Baby Mops and set him or her down on any hard wood or tile floor that needs cleaning. You may at first need to get things started by calling to the infant from across the room, but pretty soon they'll be doing it all by themselves.

There's no child exploitation involved. The kid is doing what he does best anyway: crawling. But with Baby Mops he's also learning responsibility and a healthy work ethic.

– 99 more unuseless Japanese inventions, Author: Kenji Kawakami, Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1998

Habits are formed in the very early life: Everybody needs to work and contribute to a healthy society.
Numerous studies prove it: the experiences children face in their first years shape them for the rest of their life. The relationship to its parents decides what kind of adults they will become. You can save yourself or your friends a lot of useless discussions about sharing household chores by accustoming babies at an early stage.

The perfect gift
The perfect gift for your best friends when they are on the verge of progressing from spending time with friends to being absorbed by their family life. Do you really think they will still care much about you, when their offspring is consuming their spare time? You won't believe how much there is to do with and around babies.

There are family-friendly restaurants, hotels, cars, trains, TV shows, books, web sites and even apps. But how about family friendly cleaning tools?

It is hard to believe, but this might actually increase the chances of meeting your friend within the next year.