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News Round-Up September 16: I Don’t Know How She Does It, Parenting Slackers and the Science of Soothing

What we’re reading today:

 

1. What to do with your “slacker” kid: relax, basically. “In fact, under the right conditions, middle-of-the-pack students may outperform their higher-achieving peers in the long run.”

2. I Don’t Know How She Does It comes out today. What’s changed between when the book was written 10 years ago, and now?

3. Awesome and inspiring teenage activists.

4. Ever wondered what’s going on when you’re soothing your crying baby?

5. Oh Weetabix, you know awesome dancing kids get us everytime! We’ll try your cereal.

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