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When Your Kid Comes Out as Gay, Why Kids Love Colours and Moms on Business Trips

What the cool parents are reading today: kids talk to their mom on skype

1. Younger and younger kids are coming out as gay, but the support systems we currently have in place don’t really take 7-year-olds into account. What do you do when your young son or daughter tells you they’re gay, or they don’t tell you but you suspect as much? “The best things parents can do for both their straight and gay children is just not to presume anything about their kid’s sexuality — and to admit that, even early on, your kid has one. Talk openly — and casually! — about gay people,” says a lesbian woman who grew up in 1980s Kentucky.

2. For all you hyper-organized women looking to get pregnant while old biological clock is a-ticking, here’s The Impatient Woman’s Guide to Getting Pregnant.

News and Culture Five

News Round-Up August 22: Birthday Party Lies, Mom’s Business Trips and Having More Kids

What we’re reading today:

 

1. Loving this dirty little secrets series on the Globe. The most recent features a mom who lied to her 3-year-old son to get him to start potty training.

2. “Are we raising a generation of impatient brats?”

3. Bunch travel blogger Corinne McDermott wrote a little something for ParentCentral.ca about taking advantage of a business trip to get some time to recharge.

4. Everyone we know is pregnant with their third baby. (Seems like, anyway) How do you decide if you’re going to have more kids?

5. This is not a kid who just gives up on things

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