1. Sesame Street is coming out with a Pakistani version. The Pakistani school system is reportedly failing and USAID aims to help the kids of Pakistan learn some words and numbers with their pal Elmo. (But not Big Bird or the Count) Via The Guardian
2. Dan Savage now has a book based around his It Gets Better campaign. It’s probably worth a look if you suspect your kid might be gay. It probably also makes a great gift if you want to passive aggressively educate the homophobes in your life. Check out his interview on Salon.
3. The Huffington Post is wondering if we’re raising careless children. Are we? The desensitization argument isn’t anything new, but online friends who can be unfriended and out of our lives at the push of a button is.
Tina Fey writes an essay for this week’s New Yorker. Her 5-year-old daughter brought home a book called My Working Mom about a kid who doesn’t like how hard her witch mother works. Literally, a witch. Fey writes, “I’m sure the two men who wrote this had the best of intentions.” She also says that the worst question you can ask a working mom is, “How do you juggle it all?” For those of us who haven’t yet cracked through that New Yorker pay wall, Salon‘s Mary Elizabeth Williams has a good summary. For how hilarious Tina Fey is, we love when she gets all serious and stuff.
