News and Culture Five
What we’re reading today:
1. This mom ditched her six-figure income to be a stay-at-home mom . We’re dying to know who her ass of a general manager was.
2. If you feel like you’re having a girl, you’re probably having a girl . If you’re hungry all the time, you might be having a boy.
3. Cellphone will not give your kids cancer. A new study has found no links between the use of cellphone and brain tumors in children .
4. Are the last few weeks of summer the most stressful childcare-wise ? Wait. We’re already calling summer almost over at the midway point?? Now we’re stressed.
5. Watch this kid choreograph a dance to Lady Gaga:
Photo by karmalize via Flickr
News and Culture Five
What we’re reading today:
1. How big is too big for a stroller? Salon talks to the Laura Miller about her Too Big for Stroller blog. Miller says, “When the kid’s knees are bent up, when their feet are dragging on the ground,” they’re probably too big.
2. Speaking of judging other people’s parenting skills, why do we like calling Amy Chua terrifying, or glaring at the mom whose child is out of reach at the playground ?
3. Is good daycare cost prohibitive ? Some moms have launched a task force to deal with this issue.
4. Remember hearing about that San Francisco mom who wanted to give her daughter a head start on her inevitable rise to stardom by giving her botox? Bellasugar says it’s all a hoax . Jezebel adds the story about a mom tattooing her daughter’s eyebrows . So yeah, Jezebel says we don’t need to be worrying about botoxing etc for grades twos. Read more...
