All the Jewish parenting news you probably didn’t have time to read this week.
– A new public service announcement compares co-sleeping to putting a baby to bed alongside a giant knife. (Salon)
– Is the fear of being labeled “sexist” thwarting important research on the differences between boys’ and girls’ brains? (Slate)
– Pizza retains its classification as a “vegetable” — at least as far as school lunch programs are concerned. (Reuters)
– Parents with young children are taking issue with airlines’ efforts to relegate them to “baby ghettos” in back of the plane. (The Wall Street Journal)
– The New York Times is suing the Huffington Post for copyright infringement. The target of the lawsuit is HuffPo’s new parenting blog, Parentlode; it’s helmed by Lisa Belkin, who, until recently, was the lead writer of The Times’ Motherlode blog. (Adweek)
– Over at Motherlode, KJ Dellantonia, who ably stepped in following Belkin’s departure, questions the zeal of home-birth cheerleaders. (Motherlode)
– Disney buys Babble. (Dealbook)
– And Mickey and Minnie’s latest acquisition introduces us to “Peregrine,” “Samoset,” “Damaris”, and other baby names “inspired by the First Thanksgiving.” (Babble)
