What we’re reading on the blogs today:
Can’t get your kids to eat brussels sprouts? Vered Guttman at Slate was convinced she could find a recipe to make her boys, who aside from sprouts eat everything, love the world’s most hated vegetable. The brussels sprout and split pea soup sounds pretty good.
Shari Roan at the L.A. Times says that kids are watching too much TV. No more than two hours of screen time a day, pediatricians say.
Need something to tide you over before Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2? Check out this great art inspired by Part 1 on Flavorwire.
And have you found that your parents’ parenting style made you run in the other direction? Felisa Rogers at Salon says her hippie mom turned her into a consumer. Whereas her mom was “obsessed with composting,” Rogers says, “As far as my parents are concerned, I might as well be Alex P. Keaton.” Totally reminds us of You Know You’re an Adult Child of Hippies When…
