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What we’re reading today:

1. One Apple fangirl of a mom says the things she’s most grateful to Steve Jobs for, is Pixar.

2. If your 5-year-old gets something and your 15-month-old doesn’t, your toddler knows something is up.

3. Steve Jobs wanted your kids to be bored sometimes. How else will they get creative?

4. Fabulous headline: I gave birth to Veruca Salt.

5. Lily’s parents surprise her with a trip to Disneyland and she’s so excited she can’t even handle it. We hope she has a really, really great trip:

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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...