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What we’re reading today:

1. Tales from a reluctant breastfeeder.

2. How to raising high-achieving kids, not perfectionist kids. Hint: Teach kids it’s about the process, not just the end result and accept them and their work unconditionally.

3. Speaking of not being perfectionists, could the secret to raising kids be teaching them how to fail?

4. Samantha Bee’s kid might tell your kid where babies come from. Bee says she’s sorry, but she couldn’t think up a decent lie on the spot.

5. A sweet video from Operation Smile that just might make you cry. (But in a good way.)

Photo by Christaface via Flickr

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.