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What we’re reading today:

1. Older mothers seem to be on the receiving end of a lot of prejudice, why aren’t older dads?

2. Advice from the Kielburgers — What to do when your kid comes home and says they want to change the world? Listen, ask follow up questions, then check in with them the next morning. “Ultimately, you want to channel their passion into a healthy and lasting appetite for social involvement.”

3. The pregnancy photo shoot: it’s a thing. (Just be careful not to veer into awkward family photo territory)

4. You have a baby: best excuse to get out of things you don’t want to do?

5. Kids struggling in geography? Just play this a few dozen times:

Photo via Awkward Family Photos

What we’re reading today:

1. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ fashionable daughter Suri, 5, has been spotted around Vancouver with a pacifier. Has she developed anxiety issues due to constant paparazzi? Will she need braces? At what age do you take away the pacifier? Via Globe and Mail

2. Are women with large families doing it to show off? Apparently this is a thing now? (At least in New York) “All over Manhattan, large families have become a status symbol. Four beautiful children named after kings and pieces of fruit are a way of saying, ‘I can afford a four-bedroom apartment and a hundred and fifty thousand dollars in elementary-school tuition fees every year. How you livin’?’ ” Um. This is nuts, but even Tina Fey has commented on the phenomenon so there must be something to it. Via The Stir

3. Facebook hates your pregnancy photos. Proof. Via Jezebel  Read more...