Bunchland

1. Daily Show funny girl Samantha Bee and Bunchland homegirl Allana Harkin, who plays Dan’s mom on Dino Dan, are blogging for Babble. Check out their new column, Eating Over the Sink.

2. Living in sin has really caught on!. The New York Times’ Motherlode says our kids are more likely to have parents who never married than parents who divorced.

3. Do kids shows with great music and grown-up appeal bring kids and parents together? Josh Ostroff explores the Yo Gabba Gabba!, My Little Pony phenomenon.

4. The latest Bunchland Poll is live on the Nat Po both in print and on-line. This week’s topic: The Chore Wars.

5. Check out the original Time Magazine Chore Wars article here.

The New York Times magazine ran a really thought-provoking essay in a special issue on empowering women yesterday. By Lisa Belkin, author of the paper’s Motherlode parenting blog, the piece (linked here) argues that women’s careers won’t achieve equality with men until men assume equal responsibility in the family, for parenting roles.

“That women are not yet equal in the workplace is largely a result of the fact that they are not equal at home,” writes Belkin in a related blog post. “And that last gap will not close until our policies and expectations change for men.”