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What the cool parents are reading today:

1. Stuff you kinda already knew: States that are all about “traditional family values” don’t actually care about family values, like why on earth would a new mom need paid time off to care for her newborn??

2. My son looks like a girl. So what?

3. Wes Anderson writes a lot about childhood. Why is that? And how excited are you for Moonrise Kingdom?

4. Jessica Alba says that she feels more confident and secure now that she’s a mom than she ever did in her 20s. Even Jessica Alba says she’ll never get down to her pre-baby weight and can’t wear the same jeans, but she’s more than OK with it. So can the magazines stop with the stories about supermodels who walk the runway two weeks after giving birth and maybe we can leave Bryce Dallas Howard alone?  Read more...

What we’re reading today:

1. There are some 20 million only children in the U.S., so why does there still seem to be some sort of stigma about an only child?

2. The Christian Right is getting upset with the Girl Scouts, first because they raise pesky little feminists, and then because they had the gall to admit transkids who identified as female. Oh you Fundamentalists! Why can’t you be the nice Christian let’s-love-and-accept-everybody-and-play-fair” Christian?

3. Do politics belong on kids’ toys and television? Some parents are upset about the lack of breastfeeding on Sesame Street because they use to show a heck of a lot more of it and now not so much.Other parents are pushing Mattel to create a bald Barbie to push more cancer awareness. Niche market sure, but that might be really nice for kids whose moms/aunts/cousins might be going through chemo therapy.  Read more...