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Family News Update: Iconic Comic Book Welcomes First Gay Character, How to Talk To Kids of All Ages About Sex, Is Marriage Good For Your Health and more

April 23rd, 2010

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• One of your childhood favourites is changing with the times:
Archie comic welcomes first gay character (The Toronto Star)

• The real winners in all of this? The 15-year-olds who are available to babysit after school:
Peel board draws line on full-day kindergarten (ParentCentral/The Toronto Star)

• Great age-by-age guide for parents. Slightly more awkward for kids:
Kids, lets talk about sex (a lot) (The Globe and Mail)

• “Textgating?” “Sender bender?” Distractology 101? Your teen’s driving test may be a lot different that yours was:
Mobile classroom aims to teach teens about the dangers of texting and driving (The National Post)

• For starters, it means you may not have to pretend you’re the family dog to get your kids to add you as a friend:
What Facebook’s Safety Centre means to you (Yahoo)

• The eternal question:
Is marriage good for your health? (The New York Times)

• Grandma can do amazing things:
She’s 94 and ready to graduate from college (The San Francisco Chronicle)

• Grandpa’s not too shabby either:
A tiger shark attacked this 68-year-old’s surfboard, so he ended up riding the shark (KHON2)

• To finish out the week, one more post about childhood book nostalgia:
Everything you ever wanted to know about Clifford the Big Red Dog (Mental_Floss)

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