News and Culture Five
What the cool parents are reading today: 
1. Want your kid to step in line? Try public shaming! Wait, maybe not. No, definitely do not change your kid’s cover photo on Facebook to some PSA about how she misbehaved and wasn’t allowed on Facebook for a while.
2. Or maybe presumptive, judgmental, racist people are the worst. A woman writes Dear Prudence that she was trying to befriend a mom at her daughter’s dance class, but the woman stormed off saying she was anti-adoption… and her daughter’s not adopted, but she is mixed-race.
3. A vegan book for kids. Do you think the author was banking on controversy selling their book?
4. Peaches Geldof has named her son Astala, and Bob Geldof wants his daughter to change his grandson’s ridiculous name immediately. Yes, the man whose kids are Peaches, Pixie and Fifi Trixibelle is annoyed that his daughter chose an old and obscure name from a baby name book. Read more...
News and Culture Five
What we’re reading today:
It’s no surprise that kids often come out looking much more like one parent than the other, but bi-racial twins who end up looking like they’re different ethnicities from one another is something else entirely. Little Triniti Cunningham has more of her dad’s dark features, while her twin brother Gabe has their mom’s blond hair and blue eyes. Neat. We don’t remember how to work out the punnett squares for this possibility. Via Parentcentral.ca
Statistically, a “normal” family is no longer the nuclear family we’re so often presented with: a married mom and dad and their biological children. Now, more unmarried couples are raising kids, more single women are raising kids without a male partner, more gay and lesbian couples are raising kids, etc. etc. The New York Times wants to know what says, “family” to you. Read more...
