What we’re reading today:
1. Ontario’s getting two pilot birth centres run by midwives. Nice.
2. Would you do anything to keep your kids out of trouble? Would you build an entire flipping nightclub in your basement complete with DJ booth to keep them from going to sketchier venues?
3. In defence of the term “mompreneur”… personally, we don’t get why you wouldn’t just go with “entrepreneur.”
4. New moms, do you suddenly feel a heck of a lot older?
5. Dancing baby:
Photo by santheo via Flickr
What we’re reading today:
1. American kids are all monsters (obviously) and the only way to save them is by employing these French parenting techniques. American parents will have lovely little Madelines in no time! Wait, wasn’t she always getting into trouble? And no, we don’t think all American kids are monsters, just the ones that end up on reality shows.
2. Teens these days are more saintly than their parents. What, are we raising a generation of squares? They’re drinking, smoking, using drugs and having sex less than teens in the 80s.
3. Speaking of parenting and healthy habits, we’re way more concerned with sugar consumption than we have been in previous generations, so, is it time to regulate sugar?
4. Why hello all you stay at home moms and dads! What does/should a homemaker make these days anyway?
What we’re reading today: 
1. We know, this is by now just common sense, but we need to remind kids about sunscreen. It seems the teens are too cool for it. Maybe that’ll all change when today’s 6-year-olds are teens. Don’t those teens know that sun damage causes premature aging??
2. Rebecca Eckler says the real joy of being pregnant is having your partner get your breakfast while you catch up on Kardashian gossip. Oh, and everyone else is extra nice to you too.
3. One blogger wonders if it’s wrong to raise kids in a sub-zero climate. We don’t really judge these things, but the piece is pretty whiny. Let the kid outside already. (Yeah, yeah, we see she does by the end of it, but ulgh.)
4. And something to think about when you’re getting busy: a teen in called the cops on her mom for having too-loud sex.
What we’re reading today:
1. A pregnant lady was struck by lightning, then had to wait out the remaining six months of her pregnancy before finding out what effect the lightning had on her baby girl. She’s good and healthy, but we’re with the dad here and are waiting to hear about her superpowers.
2. Speaking of miracle babies, a jolt of caffeine could help protect preemies from developing cerebral palsy and other motor function-affecting conditions.
3. Dooce, known to the non-blogosphere as Heather Armstrong, has announced via blog that she and her husband are separating. More on Dooce, obviously.
4. A new study shows that teens raised by gay parents are just as happy as other teens. <Insert Kids Are All Right reference here> But man, we did enjoy that movie. Sorry Meri!
What we’re reading today:
1. Who loves apples? Is there anyone who doesn’t? A history of apples is pretty cool.
2. Teenage boys (and girls) can be so gross!
3. There are some that think Halloween should be moved, from its fixed date of Oct. 31 to the last Saturday in October. Thoughts?
4. Did you hear about Turkey’s 2-week-old miracle baby? The baby girl was pulled out of the rubble from Sunday’s deadly earthquake.
5. How can you not love a swing dancing Spider-Man?
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By teen girls, for teen girls
So Rookie just launched. Rookie is the brain child of teenage fashion blogger Tavi Gevinson and thus far it looks about as sharp as its 15-year-old editor. What can you expect from Rookie and Tavi:
“I don’t have the answers. Rookie is not your guide to Being a Teen. It is not a pamphlet on How to Be a Young Woman. (If it were, it would be published by American Girl and your aunt would’ve given it to you in the fifth grade.) It is, quite simply, a bunch of writing and art we like and believe in. While there’s always danger in generalizing a whole group of people, I do think some experiences are somewhat universal to being a teenager, specifically a female one. Rookie is a place to make the best of the beautiful pain and cringe-worthy awkwardness of being an adolescent girl. When it becomes harder to appreciate these things, we also have good plain fun and visual pleasure. When you’re sick of having to be happy all the time, we have lots of eye-rolling rants, too.”
What we’re reading today:
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.
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