News and Culture Five
What we’re reading today:

1. Ontario’s getting two pilot birth centres run by midwives. Nice.
2. Would you do anything to keep your kids out of trouble? Would you build an entire flipping nightclub in your basement complete with DJ booth to keep them from going to sketchier venues?
3. In defence of the term “mompreneur”… personally, we don’t get why you wouldn’t just go with “entrepreneur.”
4. New moms, do you suddenly feel a heck of a lot older?
5. Dancing baby:
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News and Culture Five
What we’re reading today:

1. Is your unborn baby waging war on your uterus, or are you and the baby happily coexisting?
2. At what age do you let kids trick-or-treat on their own?
3. It’s happening; people are referring to themselves as dadpreneurs.
4. Anderson Cooper had pageant kids and moms on his show and had staff “make under” the girls, wiping all their makeup and taking off their false lashes and such. The crazy result? The girls seemed way happier without makeup.
5. These parents tried to surprise their kids with a trip to Disney World… the kids weren’t having any of it.
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