News and Culture Five
What we’re reading today:
1. The family dinner is alive and well.
2. Getting to the bottom of How She Does It — in the UK .
3. Want your 3-year-old to learn to share better? Read him this story from 1818 about a boy who wouldn’t share. “So he went about to every body — Pray give me something to eat, I am very hungry. And every body said, No, we shall give you none, for we do not love cruel, naughty boys.”
4. You know you’re kinda curious about 50 Cent’s young adult novel about bullying .
5. You can get your own My Keepon dancing robot starting next month.
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News and Culture Five
What we’re reading today:
1. Kids need good role models lest they turn into bullies. That’s why rapper 50 Cent is writing a semi-autobiographical book about how a kid becomes a bully on the playground. We think it’s a What-not-to-do thing. Kids, you don’t want to be 50 Cent! He’s been shot nine times! With a gun!
2. Little girls are scared of getting fat .
3. Lori Gottlieb says that worrying too much about your kid and trying to shield them from every single discomfort could make them unhappy in their young adulthood . If they scrape their knee, you’re not a bad parent.
4. So we’ve been talking a bit about how fathers today do more hands-on parenting than maybe their fathers or grandfathers did, but another study reports that more married women are feeling like they’re single moms . Read more...
