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What the cool parents are reading today:

1. Do you and your kid have complementary temperaments? A stubborn kid and a stubborn parents makes for a lot of clashes, but a stubborn kid with a super easy going parent isn’t necessarily any better.

2. Love and admiration for Hillary Clinton grows with an anti-bullying PSA that addresses the bullies rather than the victims. She says, “If you’re the bully, if you’re bullying someone else, please take a hard look at your actions and the pain you’ve caused.”

3. “The overall net effect of having kids is positive.” Congrats parents! Though it might not seem like it when  you step on a piece of lego, two new studies show that people with kids might be happier than their childless peers.  Read more...

What we’re reading today:

1. What happens when your 4-year-old celebrate are only celebrating their first real birthday? What are their other birthdays like?

2. It’s Pink Shirt Day! Appropriately, NYT’s Motherlode has a post on loving when your boys defy stereotypes and wear pink, but cringing when your daughter embraces the whole pink and princesses thing.

3. More Pink Shirts: A student-made video, with 1,500 kids sporting pink shirts and singing Lady Gaga, all in the name of anti-bullying, have some parents up in arms. The parents are offended. By the anti-bullying video. Facepalm.

4. Wow, helicopter parents be trippin’. A college professor gives advice on how to raise independent kids, but the real gem of the article is the college prof revealing all the crazy things parents do to their 18-22 year old kids. Calling to ask about a debit charge made at a pizza place at 3am?  Read more...

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Shakespeare and high school have gone together pretty much since the invention of high school. But one high school wants to try something a little different: starting tomorrow, which would be William Shakespeare’s 447th birthday, a drama club out of White Plains, NY will act out Much Ado About Nothing on Facebook.

White Plains High School isn’t the first to tackle the classics via social media — last year, a fake Ferris Bueller, along with his girlfriend Sloane, best friend Cameron and furious principal Mr. Rooney reenacted the movie via Twitter and even checked into key Bueller venues like Wrigley Field and the Art Gallery of Chicago.  Read more...