What we’re reading today:
1. Should we screen kids for high cholesterol?
2. Baby’s first holiday makes everything more fun and special for parents too.
3. Well, this is just awesomely supportive: parents whose kid has diabetes got insulin pump tattoos.
4. When Christmukkah gets out of hand.
5. It doesn’t come out for another year, but the trailer for The Hobbit is now available:
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What we’re reading today:
1. A new collector Barbie has pink hair and a sweet chest plate of a tattoo. Is this inappropriate for kids, or is it merely reflective of the women a young kid might come across? We can think of quite a few awesome moms and dads with a whole lot of ink. Mary Elizabeth Williams made a good point in saying that while this doll isn’t specifically meant for little kids, it’s ‘s not a bad way to promote the idea that blond and All-American isn’t the be-all and end-all of beauty.
2. Adoption: Giving a child up, or placing a child with a family that can care for it better than you? Prudie FTW.
3. Shy kid? Relax, it’s not a social phobia.
4. We linked to some sort of discussion earlier this week, but that babies and screen time conversation just doesn’t go away.
What we’re reading today:
1. Enough with the sneaky vegetables, Babble! If you’re going to make a delicious zucchini bread, tell the kids the dish they just enjoyed was indeed zucchini bread! Likewise the eggplant parm pasta sauce. And who are you kidding, thinking a picky eater will fail to notice the peas and broccoli in his macaroni and cheese, the bright green leafy things in a translucent rice paper wrap, or the fact that his tasty calzone is chock full of mushroom and spinach? That said, the recipes look absolutely delicious.
2. So teaching kids about civil rights is pretty important, yes? And teaching kids that certain groups of people haven’t always been seen as equal and have had to fight/continue to fight to have equal rights as their non-minority counterparts is a giant part of teaching civil rights? So why did some private school parents in San Francisco object to a tour around the Castro neighbourhood to learn some local history and about Harvey Milk and such? Via Jezebel
