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What the cool parents are reading today:

1. Hey remember when you had to transition your kid from a crib to a big-kid bed? Ulgh, that’s fun right?

2. One woman contrasts the story of her birth, with a drugged up mom who was given a shot of estrogen so she wouldn’t lactate, versus her own crunchier motherhood full of birthing tubs and breastfeeding. (This is another take on the Elisabeth Badinter philosophy)

3. McDonalds is now putting yogurt in their Happy Meals and have slashed fries down to a mini 100 calorie size. Do these changes make you more inclined to take your kids to McDonalds?

4. How do you help your kid reach a healthy body weight without making them self-conscious about it?

5. Speaking of healthy eating habits, sometimes you just got to make your kid eat all their vegetables, no matter how unimpressed they are:  Read more...

What we’re reading today:

1. One mom’s story of going in for attachment parenting, and finding out what happens when she’s not as crunchy as she thinks she is and the most attachmenty of the attachment parents makes sure she knows it. It’s really too bad that one mom was so judge-y, sounds like a great group! Also, sounds like an episode of Up All Night.

2. OK, and it’s not super-parent-y, but we’re guessing some of you saw the Golden Globes last night? We continue to adore Michelle Williams and love that she mostly just shouted out her daughter with her acceptance speech and thanked her for letting her read bedtime stories in a Marilyn Monroe voice for six months. And speaking of thanking kids, we thought Peter Dinklage was pretty sweet to be stressed about his baby’s first night with a sitter. What were the other highlights for you? We liked anything Kate Winslet, Claire Danes’s dress and of course, Tina Fey’s nomination photobomb of Amy Poehler. (Poehler should have won!)  Read more...