Bunchland

What we’re reading on the blogs today:

Can’t get your kids to eat brussels sprouts? Vered Guttman at Slate was convinced she could find a recipe to make her boys, who aside from sprouts eat everything, love the world’s most hated vegetable. The brussels sprout and split pea soup sounds pretty good.

Shari Roan at the L.A. Times says that kids are watching too much TV. No more than two hours of screen time a day, pediatricians say.

Need something to tide you over before Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2?  Check out this great art inspired by Part 1 on Flavorwire.

And have you found that your parents’ parenting style made you run in the other direction? Felisa Rogers at Salon says her hippie mom turned her into a consumer. Whereas her mom was “obsessed with composting,” Rogers says, “As far as my parents are concerned, I might as well be Alex P. Keaton.” Totally reminds us of You Know You’re an Adult Child of Hippies When…  Read more...

Do you have any naked pictures of your kids? If you do, you’re apparently a child pornographer. Or at least you could come under investigation as one.

After a breakdown and a long period of extreme depression, journalist Jody Jenkins worked up the nerve to share his story about how he, his wife and another couple came under police investigation as “child pornographers,” and were eventually also investigated for “endangerment of a child.” All because of six photographs taken on a camping trip. Six. The photos included naked pictures of the children, the children playing with a beer can and being near a campfire. Really?  Read more...