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News Round-Up Oct. 7: How Steve Jobs Helped Familes, Raising Veruca Salt and a Disneyland Surprise

What we’re reading today:

1. One Apple fangirl of a mom says the things she’s most grateful to Steve Jobs for, is Pixar.

2. If your 5-year-old gets something and your 15-month-old doesn’t, your toddler knows something is up.

3. Steve Jobs wanted your kids to be bored sometimes. How else will they get creative?

4. Fabulous headline: I gave birth to Veruca Salt.

5. Lily’s parents surprise her with a trip to Disneyland and she’s so excited she can’t even handle it. We hope she has a really, really great trip:

Photo by Loren Javier via Flickr

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News Round-Up Oct. 6: Cutting Back on Autism Therapy, How Stress Is Bad for Parenting and Those Crazy, Crazy Single Moms

What we’re reading today:


1. Does everyone secretly think single moms are crazy? Katie Roiphe thinks that they mean romantic rather than crazy: “They mean that she is not influenced by the practical news on the ground, is listening instead to another story that is in her head. She is drawn to things that are, according to the dictionary definition of romantic, ‘impractical in conception or plan’ and is in thrall to the ‘heroic, adventurous, remote, mysterious, or idealized.’”

2. People continue to debate whether or not circumcision is the healthy choice.

3. New groundbreaking study finds that stress is bad for parenting.

4. If you have a child with special needs, of course you’re going to try whatever treatment or therapy you think might help them, but sometimes it’s better to hold back a bit.

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6 Kid-Friendly Apps for the iPad’s First Birthday

Happy birthday iPad, you are one year old today.

We found the cake, and now to celebrate the iPad’s first year we decided to make a list of our favourite apps so you can have the birthday party at your house.

1. Music Learning Adventure By: The Juno Company

  • Founder, mom, and composer Belinda Takahashi blends her own original music with fun characters and flashcards to encourage kids to let out their inner pop star.

2. 123 Color HD By: Steve Glinberg

  • A talking colouring book with a winter theme. When it’s too cold to go outside and play, why not stay inside and colour your snowman purple out of spite.

3. Let’s Find It By: Nate Games

  • Not just for the kids, this app allows you to choose between different levels of difficulty allowing both parents and kids a chance to compete at making the little monster happy before the clock runs out.