Yesterday on The Alan Titchmarsh Show, Alan showed viewers a CD entitled Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of The Beatles. The concept behind Roackabye Baby is great – turn classic songs from great bands into lullabies that please both baby and parent at the same time. What better way to rock your baby to sleep than a lullaby rendition of Yellow Submarine. Most of the songs are so familiar, parents will find themselves singing along to the tune. What a great way to teach your new baby the sound of your own voice, whilst helping them nod off to sleep at the same time.

The Rockabye Baby Beatles CD featured on The Alan Titchmarsh Show features lullaby versions of classic Beatles hits such as Yesterday, Yellow Submarine, Strawberry Fields Forever and Here Comes The Sun. These four are particularly well suited to lullaby versions with their lilting and catchy melodies. Certain songs don’t translate quite as well, but overall the quality is excellent and the tunes should really help to relax your baby.

Rockabye Baby also produce lullaby versions of songs by other artists such as Coldplay, U2, The Rolling Stones, Bob Marley, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Nirvana. Here at ISIOTB towers we think that Coldplay and The Beatles, if you like these bands of course, translate particularly well to lullaby versions of their songs.

Click here to buy Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of The Beatles as seen on The Alan Titchmarsh Show

In Supernanny, Jo Frost uses no-nonsense techniques to help all sorts of families get back on track. Some of the kids on Suppernanny behave despicably, but Jo Frost somehow manages to turn things around and bring the child back in line with a whole host of tips, tricks and techniques including the famous ’naughty step’.

Jo Frost is a busy woman: as well as starring in all the Supernanny series both here and over in the States, she’s also found the time to produce 3 fantastic books on the subject of effective child care and getting the best from your children. Here are the books Supernanny Jo Frost has produced:

1) Supernanny: how to get the best from your children

This book does what it says on the tin, a ‘Kim and Aggie for naughty children’ according to the times. Also contains helpful medical advice for youngsters.

Click here to buy Supernanny: how to get the best from your children by Jo Frost

2) Ask Supernanny: what every parent wants to know

Click here to buy Ask Supernanny: what every parent wants to know

3) Jo Frost’s Confident Baby Care: what you need to know for the first year from the UK’s most trusted nanny

This book from Supernanny Jo Frost is idel for parents with a new child, as it focuses on the difficult first year of parenthood. Confident Baby Care contains loads of useful information for new parents, from swaddling diagrams to sleeping and feeding routines, teething and weaning. It is a must-read for any new parent.

Click here to buy Jo Frost’s Confident Baby Care

Tuesday’s Working Lunch featured gadget buyer Ella Williamson and Matthew Bath from consumer magazine Which?, discussing the must-have Christmas toys this year in the weekly ‘Tech Shed’ slot. Working Lunch presenter Declan quizzed Ella on what the most popular Christmas toys would be this year, and this is what she said:

1) Elmo Interactive Doll

There are a number of Elmo Interactive Dolls on the market and quite a few are tough to get hold off this close to Christmas due to their popularity. We’ve featured the TMX Elmo Extra Special Edition which is similar to the one demonstrated by Ella Williamson on Working Lunch. The more you tickle this Elmo, the more he laughs and giggles. He will even roll over and get back up again. The classic Sesame Street character also sings and performs all manner of other amusing moves and sounds.

Click here to buy an Elmo Interactive Doll similar to the one seen on Working Lunch

2) Kota the Triceratops

Kota was featured on Something for the Weekend’s gadget round-up a while ago, but it made a re-appearance on Working Lunch on Tuesday. Declan commented that Kota the Triceratops isn’t cheap (and at £300 he’s not wrong!), but Ella Williamson defended the product saying that it is a very advanced and intelligent sit-on dinosaur toy that kids will really love and bond with. It’s like a pet without the hassle and smell. Kota the Triceratops features eleven sensors on it’s body making it very responsive – kids can stroke Kota, feed him, ride on him and Kota will respond accordingly.

Declan Curry said that Kota cost £300 but Amazon are currently selling this toy at £219.99, a saving of 80 pounds.

Click here to buy Kota the Triceratops as seen on Working Lunch

The iTeddy is an innovative toy created by entrepreneur Imran Hakim and pitched to the Dragons on Dragon’s Den. Dragons Peter Jones and Theo Paphitis saw great potential in the iTeddy, an interactive teddy bear for kids featuring an inbuilt media player with LCD screen and controls allowing children to watch movies, cartoons, play music and games, and much more. Extra downloadable content is available from the iTeddy website, www.iteddy.com.

Other features of the iTeddy include a USB port, half a gig of memory, expandable SD card slot, built in speaker and built in rechargeable battery. The I-teddy is getting rave reviews and Dragons Den has really helped to launch the product and turn it’s creator, Imran Hakim, into an overnight success story.

Click here to purchase an iTeddy as seen on Dragon’s Den.

Kota the Triceratops was the final gadget featured on Something for the Weekend’s gadget round up this week.

Kota the Triceratops is a sit-on battery-powered baby dinosaur for children aged three years and up. Kota features sensors on eleven areas of his body, each of which performs a different function. For instance, if you stroke Kota the Triceratops on his head, his head and eyes move in response to the touch.

Children can also feed Kota with paper leaves which Kota will grab in his mouth and you will hear munching sound effects. Kota also has a musical mode where you can move his horns like musical intruments.

Kota the Triceratops has a soft seat for your child to sit on and he will produce stomping sound effects as if on the move. Kota can take weights up to around 4 stone.

Something for the Weekend gadget expert Ella said that Kota the Triceratops retails at around £300. The cheapest we have found is priced at £289.99 with free delivery from Play.com, which you can purchase by clicking here