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What we’re reading today:

1. New play date trend: signing a waiver. Are people threatening legal action action play dates gone wrong? Can we add sub-clauses re: reasonable, expected childhood injuries like scraped knees from skateboarding?

2. You know how toddlers are so irresistibly cute and you can’t get mad at them but you have no trouble yelling at their older siblings if they’ve misbehaved? Yeah, science shows babies loose their cuteness at 4.5-years-old. If any genius 3-year-olds are reading this, live it up while you can! You can’t rely on your adorableness to get you out of trouble forever.

3. Parents are going to have to shell out a little more money on Easter eggs this year. Europe is low on eggs. Between Norway’s butter shortage and the current egg crisis, it’s like the world is trying to deny Europe rich desserts. Egg production has dropped about 10-15 percent since the EU’s new requirements for bigger, better cages for egg-laying hens. Eh, maybe this is the Western privilege coming out, but raising egg prices and making them slightly less easy to come by doesn’t seem like the worst idea…  Read more...

Travel the Continent without leaving the couch!

It’s grey and raining here at Bunch HQ and we’d much rather be somewhere sunny. We might not have the time to country-hop until we find perfect summer weather, but it’s easy enough to pop down to the local video store (or log onto Netflix) and travel the world through our screens. This week’s Bunchbrary takes us on a whirlwind tour of Europe.

1. Mary Poppins (1964)

It’s an eight-hour flight from Bunch HQ to England, but magical Mary Poppins speeds up the trip and doesn’t make us go through airport security. Mary’s arrival at the Banks’ home as their new nanny turns the entire family’s world around, and her “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” songs bring us to Edwardian London in a heartbeat.

2. Ratatouille (2007)  Read more...