Nice Bear or Naughty Bear? New iPhone app helps parents manage children’s behavior

The Nice Bear Naughty Bear iPhone app helps parents manage and reward the behavior of their children. Parents can create their own bears and chart behavior patterns, such as eating vegetables, brushing teeth or throwing temper tantrums. Parents can also set rewards for each child, depending on what best motivates them, such as collecting enough points to stay up a half hour later, choosing supper or going out for a treat. The app is suitable for use with children ages 3 – 8. It is available for $2.99 through the iTunes store. 

MAM Anti-Colic Bottle helps prevent babies from swallowing air 

Designed to help prevent babies from swallowing air during mealtime, the new MAM Anti-Colic Bottle is suited for both breast milk and formula. Its design features ventilation holes in the bottle’s base to regulate the pressure balance of the milk, allowing it to flow evenly without bubbles or air pockets for reduced gas and 80 percent fewer colic symptoms. It also features a patented silk teat nipple and silicone seal to prevent milk from leaking out during mealtime. 

The MAM Anti-Colic bottle is available in 8-ounce and 5-ounce sizes and comes in luminous blue, pink, green or purple. MAM Anti-Colic bottles retail for $6.99 each or $14.99 for a pack of three. 

Bed Buddy Warming Shawl helps soothe aches and pains

The new Bed Buddy Warming Shawl from Carex Health Brands was designed to help soothe aches triggered by a variety of causes. Offering a blend of warmth and soothing capabilities, this unique shawl utilizes moist heat to treat not only back pain, but also muscle discomfort, arthritis, fibromyalgia and sports injuries. 

The shawl covers the back, arms and shoulder area providing warmth while enabling user’s hands to move freely for activities. A one-size-fits-all wrap made of 100 percent natural material, the Bed Buddy includes a secure closure and is reversible in two colors — black and burgundy. It can be frozen for cold therapy or heated for heat therapy for one hour of relief. The shawl retails for $32.99 and is available online at Amazon.com and in pharmacies and drugs stores nationwide. 

Photo cards teach kids basic vocabulary words 

Super Duper Publications has introduced Webber BIG Nouns Photo Cards, a jumbo-sized 600 instructional card set to help children learn basic vocabulary words while engaging in multiple educational activities. In addition to a full-color photo, each card has a word definition, three fun facts and three questions to improve a student’s ability to name, describe, identify attributes, compare and contrast, formulate sentences and practice conversation skills. 

The cards, which are 5 inches by 7 inches and laminated, are categorized into 14 subjects in each 600-card set, which comes with a booklet of instruction. Each set retails for $249.95 and is available at www.superduperinc.com. 

Ice melt is safe to use around family pets 

Safe Paw was created for families concerned about the dangers of traditional ice-melting products affecting the animals in their care. Safe Paw is the only 100-percent salt free and established national brand of a pet- and child-safe ice melter, according to its Parent Tested Parent Approved seal of approval. 

It is recommended and used by veterinarians throughout the United States, and it was honored in the 2011 “Whole Green Earth Catalogue” and has been awarded the “Green Seal” by the Parents Advisory Council. Safe Paw is sold at most major pet stores, grocery shops and national retail chains. For more information, visit www.safepaw.com.