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What we’re reading today:

1. Kids need good role models lest they turn into bullies. That’s why rapper 50 Cent is writing a semi-autobiographical book about how a kid becomes a bully on the playground. We think it’s a What-not-to-do thing. Kids, you don’t want to be 50 Cent! He’s been shot nine times! With a gun!

2. Little girls are scared of getting fat.

3. Lori Gottlieb says that worrying too much about your kid and trying to shield them from every single discomfort could make them unhappy in their young adulthood. If they scrape their knee, you’re not a bad parent.

4. So we’ve been talking a bit about how fathers today do more hands-on parenting than maybe their fathers or grandfathers did, but another study reports that more married women are feeling like they’re single moms.  Read more...

Our Yuri Gagarin Bunchbrary

Today marks 50 years since Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to venture into outer space. Amazing. You might even say it calls for a celebration. World Space Party, anyone? So while your Yuri’s Night space party might include some rocket crafts, space songs and astronaut food, you might want to wind down with one or more of these astronomical films.

1. The Rocketeer (1991)

This 1930s period piece doesn’t have space travel per say, but it does have a young (& handsome, obviously) pilot who stumbles upon a secret prototype jetpack that allows him to become a spacey-looking superhero who fights Nazis. And though the movie was made well after Gagarin’s fatal test flight, he must have read comic books with Rocketeer-esque plots back in his pre-cosmonaut days.

2. Muppets from Space (1999)

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