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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!

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What we’re reading today:

1. Earlier this week, we read that more young moms are single moms. Here’s one 30-year-old on why she’d prefer to be a single mom and not share her kid with another parent.

2. One couple are trying, so far unsuccessfully, to have a baby. The woman says she’s desperate to have one, but they’ve already ruled out adoption.

3. Have innate differences between boys and girls been exaggerated? Are the experts creating a great gap in the gender divide?

4. This sounds painful and unpleasant for everyone involved: the link between colic and migraines.

5. Who’s your favourite silly political pundit? Stephen Colbert? And who’s your favourite curmudgeon of an author? Maurice Sendak? Well, have you seen the Colbert-Sendak interivew?

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What we’re reading today:

1. Former congresswoman Gabrielle Gifford’s husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, is writing a children’s book. Wait, it gets better! The book will be called Mousetronaut: A Partially True Story.

2. For young moms under 30, most babies are born outside of marriage. But, are they all single moms, or are they babies born to co-habitating parents who just aren’t married?

3. Measuring healthy birth weights, but taking ethnicity into account.

4. One writer/film maker says that distraction is a good thing, and that there’s nothing wrong with his son who is also easily distracted and he rejects the idea that his kids needs Ritalin.

5. A dog can be such an important member of the family, this one is even teaching the baby new tricks:

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What we’re reading today:

1. Yesterday we talked table manners, today it’s gratitude.

2. No, we do not envy the single moms when they get sick.

3. Yeah. we’ve been talking about the Muppets a lot lately, but some people really believe Kermit changed their life.

4. Do we still need school photos?

5. And now a little bit of sugary sweet K-Pop just because:

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What we’re reading today:

1. Does everyone secretly think single moms are crazy? Katie Roiphe thinks that they mean romantic rather than crazy: “They mean that she is not influenced by the practical news on the ground, is listening instead to another story that is in her head. She is drawn to things that are, according to the dictionary definition of romantic, ‘impractical in conception or plan’ and is in thrall to the ‘heroic, adventurous, remote, mysterious, or idealized.’”

2. People continue to debate whether or not circumcision is the healthy choice.

3. New groundbreaking study finds that stress is bad for parenting.

4. If you have a child with special needs, of course you’re going to try whatever treatment or therapy you think might help them, but sometimes it’s better to hold back a bit.  Read more...

What we’re reading today:

1. Kids need good role models lest they turn into bullies. That’s why rapper 50 Cent is writing a semi-autobiographical book about how a kid becomes a bully on the playground. We think it’s a What-not-to-do thing. Kids, you don’t want to be 50 Cent! He’s been shot nine times! With a gun!

2. Little girls are scared of getting fat.

3. Lori Gottlieb says that worrying too much about your kid and trying to shield them from every single discomfort could make them unhappy in their young adulthood. If they scrape their knee, you’re not a bad parent.

4. So we’ve been talking a bit about how fathers today do more hands-on parenting than maybe their fathers or grandfathers did, but another study reports that more married women are feeling like they’re single moms.  Read more...

An interview with actress Precious Chong

Bunch talked to actress Precious Chong about motherhood, growing up with Tommy Chong and her show, Push… One Mother Of a Show

Q: Are people surprised to hear about your childhood?

A: I was straight and academic growing up. I wanted to be the opposite of my parents. It’s like in that TV show from the ‘80s where Michael J. Fox was really preppy and really normal. I wanted a normal name like Luisa. I wanted to fit in. I eventually embraced the fact that my dad is who he is. Now I have a happy and interesting life. I get to have all these different experiences.  Read more...