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News and Culture Five

News Round-Up Nov. 14: Sasha Grey, Anarchist Home-Schoolers and More Kids For Brad Pitt?

What we’re reading today:

 

1. So, the Sasha Grey (former adult movie star) reading to grade 1 kids thing: Would you have a problem with it? If she’s being presented as a celebrity to the kids, and therefore a role model of sorts, and if there’s any way a particularly literate kid would Google her, yeah, we see a bit of a problem.

2. What does it mean to choose to only have one kid?

3. And in completely opposite news, Brad Pitt says he and Angelina Jolie aren’t necessarily done growing their family.

4. We were glued to the screen reading this thing on a home-schooling experience in the 1970s.

5. Have a screaming baby on your hands? Throw on some Biggie.

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News and Culture Five

News Round-Up June 3: More Single Dads, Angelina Jolie Lacks Faith in School System and the Worst Babysitter Ever

What we’re reading today:

1. Read this and you’ll never leave your kids with a babysitter ever again. (Don’t worry, it’s fiction)

2. The Jolie-Pitt kids are too good for the school system. Angelina Jolie says the schools are”incapable” of educating her kids, so they get tutors and nannies and adventures and stuff.

3. There are more single fathers around these days. The NYT’s Motherlode says this is changing the picture of American families.

4. Shade the Barns! A group of moms in midtown Toronto are raising money for shade structures at their fantastic neighbourhood park. Help them battle the evil UV rays.

5. GeekDad Ken Demead knows how to promote a book:

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