Contest: Occupy Your Baby, Or Else

When I was young and childless and really enjoyed grocery shopping, I recall once asking my husband why anyone would bring a small child into such a peaceful place as a grocery store. Ditto for a restaurant. He responded that sometimes they just had to. It didn’t make any sense until years later when I too had to cart unruly and unwilling children off to Safeway or my favorite sushi haunt. Sometimes I just had to.

I used bribery of the food kind. Once, when I really, really, really needed the special kind of torture that is TJ Maxx, my son went through an entire bag of Goldfish. One at a time. As well as that worked, now we have something better. It’s called an iPhone! And if you thought Scribble rocked, wait until you check out Occupy Baby.

Occupy Baby is an iPhone/iPod app that plays a continuous animation of a farm with animals that moo, crow and oink. That’s WAY less annoying to your flight mates than a whining toddler. To make it even more convenient, there’s another new product: iBends. This is a stand for your iPhone or  iPod Touch. And the beauty of this gadget is that it’s made from a rigid piece of plastic that easily bends into use, and then goes right back to flat for easy storage in your wallet, purse or pocket so you can always have a place to hold your iPhone when you need it. iBends are great for watching movies on the iPhone too. Or even setting up your phone on your nightstand so you can see the time without have to reach for it or creating an instant night light anywhere.

Cool, right? You totally want these don’t you? If you have an annoying baby, the answer had better be yes!

Good news! I have three sets of iBends and three free app codes for Occupy Baby to give away. To be entered to win, all you need to do is share this post on Twitter or Facebook, and leave a comment telling us about the time you most needed these handy new tools. I’ll choose the winners at random next week!

Thanks for playing, and I can’t wait to hear your stories!