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News and Culture Five

News Round-Up July 18: Parents and Their Kids’ Sports, How to Travel When Your Family Has Special Needs and Sunscreen Politics

What we’re reading today:

 

1. Is there anything funny about the way camp counsellors or fellow campers apply sunscreen? One Maryland camp sent home a sunscreen permission slip after the state sent out a memo about the DOs and DON’Ts of sunscreen application. So, is applying sunscreen to someone inappropriate or is it better to have your kid come home with a sunburn?

2. Do paraents get too into kids’ sports? One mom writes into the NYT Motherlode blog to say she’s discovered that there’s a lot of favourtism and unfairness going on in kids’ sports. (Plus a dad of a girl wants to punch Matt Lauer.)

3. Did you know Israel is the world capital for in vitro fertilization? And it’s free! (for two babies… sorry wannabe-Duggars who need a little help getting pregnant)