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What the cool parents are reading today:

1. Would you let your kids call you by your first name rather than Mom or Dad? Marinka’s kids call her Marinka and she’s OK with that.

2. As if our children aren’t monstrous enough! (Kidding, kidding, totally kidding) But really, take a look at the mouth of a child. Teeth!

3. Sixteen types of people (ENTP and so on), but 11 types of playground moms. We think we’re some mix of types 3, 4 and 5 (Coffee-in-hand, cellphone, photo-taking).

4. Speaking of parents at the playground, single parents, here’s how not to pick up other single parents at the park. Spoiler: No one ever sighs over anyone else’s monkey bar abilities.

5. If your kids are into outer space, you should really look into MoonBots:

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What we’re reading today:

1. This mom in Alberta never thought she’d be tandem nursing.

2. After a mom recognized herself being talked about in the comment section of a Motherlode blog post, she wrote up a response: Why she brought her noisy baby to business class.

3. When should single parents introduce their new love interest to their kids?

4. So Washington, D.C. has more issues with pregnant/new mom first responders than just the breastfeeding cop who had to take unpaid leave.

5. Banff National Park is awesome. Here’s a video of a year’s worth of video footage. Did you know Banff has mountain goats?

Photo by Lance McCord via Flickr

What we’re reading today:

1. Teens are good kids too.

2. On TLC’s Family Matters blog, Julie Douglas wonders what privacy will mean for our children and if privacy on the internet even exists or is it just an illusion?

3. A recent study shows that boys are more confident than girls are about expressing their views in class.

4. It’s apparently Zombie Awareness Month… Teach your kids how to prepare for the zombie apocalypse with That’s Not Your Mommy Anymore. GeekDad has an interview with its author and the founder of the Zombie Research Society, Matt Mogk.

5. Dad’s New Girlfriend, starring the Progressive Insurance lady.

Image via GeekDad

What we’re reading today:

1. We kinda saw this coming: Tina Fey wrote that making the decision to have another baby would put 30 Rock on haitus; Alec Baldwin announced that next year might be 30 Rock‘s last. (Or maybe not. Or maybe he was just backpedaling before Fey made her own annoucement) Tina Fey is pregnant.

2. Just watch this and be amazed: New reality show, Pregnant in Heels, has a maternity clothes designer assemble a whole think tank for an uber-rich couple trying to come up with a name for their baby-to-be. They want something that sounds powerful and presidential. Via Jezebel

3. Check out the Red Swing Project, which takes underutilized space and makes it playable. Via Ohdeedoh

4. Being  a single dad is tough. Especially when you weren’t ready for it. On the Globe and Mail

5. Yello Dyno protects your kids:  Read more...