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What we’re reading today:

1. “In fact, living in cramped temporary housing with two kids who contracted back-to-back pink eye and ear infections was worse than being shelled.” A former war correspondent and gay dad in London says he doesn’t want to raise his twins British. Does his line about biracial kids with gay dads being something of a cliché remind anyone of that Modern Family where Cam and Mitchell discover they don’t have an edge over any of the other prospective private school parents?

2. A 4-year-old has joined Mensa. OK parents who insist their kid is a  genius, time to prove it.

3. Speaking of geniuses, want your kid to do better with math? Get them into puzzles.

4. What to expect from your partner when you’re expecting.  Read more...

What we’re reading today:

1. Teaching kids to live frugally has many benefits, like learning to be more creative with their play and the value of delayed gratification.

2. In what comes as no surprise whatsoever, kids who aren’t super-keen on reading are more likely to be interested in banned books than non-controversial ones.

3. After a recent measles outbreak, the pro-vaccine activists remind the anti-vaccine parents that it’s about keeping all the kids safe, not just their own.

4. Moms don’t really talk to their daughters about math. Let’s change this! Addition at the grocery store, fractions while cooking/baking, geometry everywhere, etc.

5. The hidden power of siblings! TED presenter Jeffrey Kluger talks birth order and life-long bonds. Is there anything better for parents than seeing their kids work together and help each other out?

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What we’re reading today:

1. Very important news for all moms unable to breastfeed: Your baby formula might have arsenic in it. Stay away from products sweetened with brown rice syrup!

2. More Americans are saying that interracial marriage is a good thing. As people who live in the most ethnically diverse city in the world, we’re proud of the Americans in the survey.

3. Bad news for science-y moms hoping to secure a tenure-track position at your local ivory tower: A new study shows that motherhood and math and science research is basically incompatible. So no procreating for Drs. Sheldon Cooper and Amy Farrah Fowler, then?

4. Inequality seems to be on the rise in Canadian public schools — why?

5. Grab the kleenex! It’s time for another inspiring and sweet video about gay parents raising awesome kids:

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What we’re reading today:

1. Oh boy who’s excited for this? One of the possible hot new toys this holiday season is a pooping dog.

2. Are you Generation Catalano? We did have that picture of Jared Leto from Seventeen up in our locker…

3. How do you take a pacifier away from your 3-year-old?

4. Contrary to what you may have read on a dumb t-shirt, girls are good at math, provided they don’t have to waste energy fighting for equal fights and raging against the patriarchy.

5. Meet the life-saving 2-year-old:

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What we’re reading today:

1. Is your kid an Kapha, Veda or a Pitta? If you want to parent your kids according to India’s 5,000-year-old “Science of Life,” Ayurveda, you need to that figure their mind and body type. Get on the Ayurveda train before Madonna (or similar) does! On Huffington Post.

2. Can the Very Hungry Caterpillar teach kids about healthy eating?  The American Academy of Pediatrics is handing out copies of the classic kids’ book to pediatricians hoping that the caterpillar, who consumes a whole bunch of fruit and then a whole lot of junk food, subsequently getting a tummy ache, can teach kids that too much ice cream et cetera leaves you feeling less than 100 per cent. Diet Blog via Jezebel  Read more...

What we’re reading today:

Minnesota moms choose niceness over strictness. Edie Larson on the Awl says if you have a minute, if it’s not too much trouble, she’ll tell you how to raise stereotypically nice Minnesota kids.

One New Jersey math teacher is using Nintendo Wii to teach math to his grade four class. Playing games like Wii sports, the teacher has some students playing, while others plot the statistics, then they swap. And sometimes kids wonder when they’re ever going to use math… Via GeekDad

On Salon, Meg Whitman shares her story of how she and her daughter came up with a new name for the transgender kid.  We like that she vetoed any Disney Princess or drag queen-sounding named.

Check out Alex Eylar’s Lego depictions of the 10 best picture nominees. Bunch HQ is divided on whether the Toy Story 3 one or the 127 Hours one is the best.  Via Defamer  Read more...