Bunchland

What we’re reading today:

1. The number of kids with ADHD in the U.S has just about doubled since 2000. Doubled. Sometimes, when diagnoses goes up, it might just mean that we’re better about identifying things, or maybe over-diagnosing things, but wasn’t the over-medicating heyday more like 2000?

2. There’s a $180, 000 nanny. Um, where do we apply?

3. Rebecca Eckler learns the dark side of mommyblogging — when your kid gets old enough to use Google image search.

4. A woman who left her husband and kids for six months to go research in Japan and subsequently broke up with her husband has been receiving death threats for her bad mothering.

5. Do we all know and love PS22? Here they are covering Whitney Houston!

Photo by Ed Yourdon via Flickr

Joanna Goldberg sends biweekly communiqués from Kenya, where she’s living with her kid

Back home, I received a somewhat bloated pay cheque every two weeks, regular payments from the recently collapsed conservative government, massive tax breaks and monthly child support from Cameron’s dad. Yet, the laundry, cooking, shopping, parenting, commuting to and from school, house cleaning and transporting is all done by the one and only, me. I even cleaned the toilets myself.

Here, I receive a monthly allowance equivalent to three nights out, some popcorn and half a phone bill back home. Twenty-five thousand Kenyan shillings – about $300 – is more than most Kenyans make, but it’s hardly generous, especially with a kid in tow and in a place as pricey and full of temptations as Nairobi. I’m usually broke, but my god how I’m spoiled.

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