News and Culture Five
What we’re reading today:
1. Anderson Cooper talks about kids and race. In a recent study, 6-year-olds think kids should have interracial friendships; by 13, not so much .
2. Do you have a tween? Are you about to have a tween? Get ready for the Drama Years .
3. The true cost of breastfeeding: moms who nurse longer lose out on income that their peers don’t .
4. Obviously motherhood is tough and exhausting, but one childless woman says quit your whining since it’s just pouring salt in the wound . (We don’t see any problem with venting your frustrations, but maybe just to a selective audience.)
5. Are you pregnant and you know it? Do you want to sing about it?
Yesterday: Play date waivers, Europe’s Easter egg shortage and you didn’t imagine it, your kids get less cute at about 4 1/2 . (Well fine, maybe not your kids, but everyone else’s) Read more...
News and Culture Five
What we’re reading today:
1. The circumcision debate rages on! Bad news for intactivists, circumcision now linked to lower rates of prostate cancer .
2. Some Scottish researchers are looking to revise recommendations that new mothers should breastfeed exclusively for the first six months . They suggest that instead the goal should be not so much in the numbers, but the results — what works best for your family. “Six months exclusive breast-feeding,” they write, “is considered unrealistic and unachievable by many families and promoting this is perceived as setting parents up to fail.”
3. In support of Meatless Mondays , or adding a vegetarian meal or two a week for your family.
4. According to one author, serious career women don’t work part-time, even if they’re moms .
5. We would LOVE to try on wigs with Miss Piggy.
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News and Culture Five
What we’re reading today:
1. We’ll have to tune into Anderson tomorrow. Mr. Cooper taped a show with the moms and kids of Toddlers and Tiaras , making the moms dress up in grownup versions of their pageant dresses. We’d like to know if the moms also had to be spray-tanned and were given flippers to cover their teeth.
2. Ten things not to say to a new mom . We’re going to have to use “He doesn’t like you” the next time a stranger asks why a baby is crying.
3. Speaking of new moms, Target now has a way to keep track of the products you’re buying and therefore know when you’re pregnant . In fact, they sent baby crib and maternity clothes coupons to a teen girl whose family didn’t yet know she was pregnant. Read more...
News and Culture Five
What we’re reading today:
1. Is your unborn baby waging war on your uterus , or are you and the baby happily coexisting?
2. At what age do you let kids trick-or-treat on their own ?
3. It’s happening; people are referring to themselves as dadpreneurs .
4. Anderson Cooper had pageant kids and moms on his show and had staff “make under” the girls , wiping all their makeup and taking off their false lashes and such. The crazy result? The girls seemed way happier without makeup.
5. These parents tried to surprise their kids with a trip to Disney World… the kids weren’t having any of it.
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