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News Round-Up March 14: Parents Raising Lazy Kids, Threatening Moms and Girl Scouts Want Your Girl in Science… If She Wants

What we’re reading today:

1. According to UCLA Anthropologists, Americans parents are raising their kids to be lazy and spoiled out of guilt.

2. Going out to dinner with your kids? Here are 12 tips that will save you some aggravation.

3. Bless those Girl Scouts! They’re celebrating their 100th anniversary this week and encouraging your girls to pursue their love of science and technology, or whatever your girls are into.

4. Turns out that parenting experts over the years have always told moms they’d better do a good job, or else. “Whatever the message, the advice was given in the form of an order and the authors highlighted extreme consequences if mothers did not follow the methods of childrearing that they advocated.”

5. Mini Hogwarts! See how they made the model for one of our favourite fictional castles.

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Is J.K. Rowling Creating More Harry Potter?

We must find out why the owls are gathering!

With just a month to go before Harry Potter überfans line up to watch the final installment of the movie franchise, author J.K. Rowling has launched a new website: Pottermore.com.

The website itself doesn’t have much other than some nice owls and a “Coming soon” message, but clicking on the owls will bring you to Rowling’s Youtube page, and there you will find a countdown. Yes, she’s going to make some sort of announcement next Thursday.

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN??! We will get to see life after Hogwarts for Harry? Or could this whateveritis be something like Saved By the Bell: The New Class? Let’s cross our fingers for the former.

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