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What we’re reading today:

1. “In fact, living in cramped temporary housing with two kids who contracted back-to-back pink eye and ear infections was worse than being shelled.” A former war correspondent and gay dad in London says he doesn’t want to raise his twins British. Does his line about biracial kids with gay dads being something of a cliché remind anyone of that Modern Family where Cam and Mitchell discover they don’t have an edge over any of the other prospective private school parents?

2. A 4-year-old has joined Mensa. OK parents who insist their kid is a  genius, time to prove it.

3. Speaking of geniuses, want your kid to do better with math? Get them into puzzles.

4. What to expect from your partner when you’re expecting.  Read more...

What we’re reading today:

1. Twelve-year-old Russian girls discover they were switched a birth. The doctor thinks the moms should have known better.

2. What do chefs feed their kids? Hint: It’s like what Anthony Rose said about getting his son to try lots of stuff.

3. Have you had to have a big serious talk about sex and babies and paternity allegations because your kid is a Justin Bieber fan?

4. Speaking of big talks with your young kids, what about explaining mixed race and same sex couples to young kids as they relate to babies and genes and all that? We love that Peggy Orenstein is taking over the Motherlode blog this week.

5. We don’t even know what to say about all these child geniuses.

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