That’s a question you shouldn’t ask, according to Mombian.

How to Respond When Meeting Lesbian Moms (Mombian)

image: homeschoolinformation.com, but actually from The New Yorker

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In case your son or daughter ever asks you, “Dad, if a Moose fought a helicopter, who would win?” you can say with confidence: it’s a draw.

Alaska Moose Brings Down Helicopter - Newsday.com

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As in, TALK. Not SHOW.

Couple Charged With Having Intercourse In Front of 9-Year-Old Daughter to Teach Her About Sex (FoxNews.com via AP)

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A Woonsocket mother and her boyfriend are headed to trial on charges they had intercourse in front of the woman’s 9-year-old daughter as a way to teach the girl about sex.

Rebecca Arnold, of Woonsocket, and her boyfriend, David Prata, have pleaded not guilty to felony child-neglect charges. A pre-trial conference is scheduled for next month.

When questioned by an investigator from the state Department of Children, Youth and Families, Prata, 33, said he and Arnold, 36, had sex “all the time” in front of the child and that “we don’t believe in hiding anything.”

He said the girl would often be on the bed watching as the couple had sex. Though they did not ask her to leave, they also did not force her to remain on the bed, Prata said.

Full article here.

This might be that couple’s favorite joke. And this is their favorite children’s show (note: not safe for work).
Via HowardStern.com (they talked about it on the radio).

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What do we make of a boy like Thomas?

Thomas (his middle name) is a fifth-grader at the highly competitive P.S. 334, the Anderson School on West 84th. Slim as they get, Thomas recently had his long sandy-blond hair cut short to look like the new James Bond (he took a photo of Daniel Craig to the barber). Unlike Bond, he prefers a uniform of cargo pants and a T-shirt emblazoned with a photo of one of his heroes: Frank Zappa. Thomas hangs out with five friends from the Anderson School. They are the smart kids.Thomas one of them, and he likes belonging.

Since Thomas could walk, he has heard constantly that he’s smart. Not just from his parents but from any adult who has come in contact with this precocious child. When he applied to Anderson for kindergarten, his intelligence was statistically confirmed. The school is reserved for the top one percent of all applicants, and an IQ test is required. Thomas didn’t just score in the top one percent. He scored in the top one percent of the top one percent.

But as Thomas has progressed through school, this self-awareness that he’s smart hasn’t always translated into fearless confidence when attacking his schoolwork. In fact, Thomas’ father noticed just the opposite. Thomas didn’t want to try things he wouldn’t be successful at,his father says. Some things came very quickly to him, but when they didn’t, he gave up almost immediately, concluding, ˜I’m not good at this. With no more than a glance, Thomas was dividing the world into two things he was naturally good at and things he wasnt.

How Not to Talk to Your Kids (New York Magazine)

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OTTAWA (Reuters) - Just because you’re the daughter of Bill Gates does not mean you get to play on your computer all day long.

The Microsoft founder said his 10-year-old daughter, his oldest child, was not a hard-core Internet and computer user until this year, when she started at a school where the students use tablet computers for almost everything.
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Gates said he and his wife Melinda decided to set a limit of 45 minutes a day of total screen time for games and an hour a day on weekends, plus what time she needs for homework.
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“Up to some age, to be determined, it’s very appropriate for a parent to get a sense of what they’re seeing out there and be able to have conversations about it,” he said.

“My son said, ‘Am I going to have limits like this my whole life?’, and I said, ‘No, when you move away you can set your own screen limits’,” Gates recounted, to audience laughter.

Gates Sets Limits on Kids’ Online Time (Reuters via ZDNet)

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