If you've ever watched a bowl of oatmeal travel off the high chair tray in slow motion while you were mid-sentence on a call, you understand the value of suction-based dishware that actually grips the surface. Abiie®'s Octopod® line is a bamboo-based baby feeding set of bowls and plates, with suction bases designed to resist the enthusiastic reach-and-fling instinct that babies between six months and two years seem hardwired with.
"Bamboo dishware that stays on the tray sounds like a small win. At 8am on a workday, it is a big win."
The bamboo material is a genuine differentiator: it's a naturally renewable resource, free from the plastics and BPA concerns that linger around a lot of standard baby dishware. For parents who are paying attention to what their baby's food comes into contact with, that's worth knowing. The design is also clean enough that it doesn't look out of place on a modern table, which is a minor thing, but one of those small details that makes the feeding routine feel slightly less frantic.
Working from home with kids in the house is its own particular sport. Here are six finds — for your desk, your baby, and yes, yourself — that are actually worth knowing about.
There's a version of working from home that looks like a linen-toned Instagram reel, with golden light, a tidy desk, and children playing quietly in the background. And then there's reality: a toddler scaling the bookshelf mid-presentation, a high chair coated in yesterday's lunch, and the lingering question of whether you actually drank anything today that wasn't coffee. This list is for the real version. Below are eight products worth a look if you're navigating work and parenting together.