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What we’re reading today:

1. Anderson Cooper talks about kids and race. In a recent study, 6-year-olds think kids should have interracial friendships; by 13, not so much.

2. Do you have a tween? Are you about to have a tween? Get ready for the Drama Years.

3. The true cost of breastfeeding: moms who nurse longer lose out on income that their peers don’t.

4. Obviously motherhood is tough and exhausting, but one childless woman says quit your whining since it’s just pouring salt in the wound. (We don’t see any problem with venting your frustrations, but maybe just to a selective audience.)

5. Are you pregnant and you know it? Do you want to sing about it?

Yesterday: Play date waivers, Europe’s Easter egg shortage and you didn’t imagine it, your kids get less cute at about 4 1/2. (Well fine, maybe not your kids, but everyone else’s)  Read more...

What we’re reading today:

1.How do babies learn language? Researchers have found that babies have a eureka moment where a word and its meaning just clicks, rather than building up that association over time.

2.Speaking of language, how did we come to call a child born out of wedlock a love child?

3.Prozac’s active ingredient has been found in the Great Lakes and it’s killing E. coli. So, is this making swimming in the Lake Erie safer, or is this stuff also killing non-harmful things and we’re just further messing up this eco-system? We’d love to find out as Great Lake Swimming is awesome. (As are Great Lake Swimmers)

4. A Geek Mom on the importance of storytime. Or is that just the importance of Curious George?

5. And not like you need us to tell you this, but tell your daughter she’s pretty. Some girls don’t grow up feeling it.  Read more...

What we’re reading today:

1. Yes, folic acid helps to prevent birth defects, but are we getting too much of a good thing? Stick to the recommended dose.

2. Speaking of things you do when you’re pregnant, did you know you can get pregnant while you’re pregnant? It’s called superfetation and it’s super rare. If it happens, it means three separate things that typically don’t happen, all had to happen.

3. There is now an app to introduce your kids to the topics of race and discrimination. Neat.

4. Cute and sad. But mostly cute: A mom and her teenage son set out on a road trip to catch her daughter’s band performance on the Lincoln Memorial. Things do not go as planned.

5. You might have already seen this, but really, is it possible to see it too much?

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