Family News Update: Hurry Up and Get Married, Coolest Kids Rooms Slideshow, Two Days Without TV, Candidate for Worst Parenting Choice of the Year and more

April 14, 2010 | 4:39 PM

• This woman gets harassed by her family for being 36 and single. And now that this information and her photo is published on the cover of The Star, everyone knows!:
Hey, spinster! When are you getting married? (The Toronto Star)

• Then who’s going to watch the kid?:
Two days without television (ParentCentral/The Toronto Star)

• Believe it or not, the vocabulary goes beyond “Feed, burp, change, repeat”:
The language of modern parenting (The Globe and Mail)

• Apparently birds marry and divorce and abandon their young. Who knew they were so much like Jon Gosselin?:
Birds: Not as lovey-dovey as they look, research finds (The National Post)

• Good news for prospective moms around the world:
Maternal deaths decline sharply across the globe (The New York Times)

• This slideshow makes us want to call our parents and ask why they never converted our closet into a cubby-hole/bunkbed, or built a castle in our bedrooms:
Cool kids rooms (The San Francisco Chronicle)

• Though it’s true, gentlemen, we’d advise not bringing this fact up during an argument. You can’t win:
Women can be ‘blinded’ by jealousy (The Telegraph)

• So….never get on this family’s bad side:
Chinese brothers ‘sought revenge using 500 poisonous snakes’ (The Telegraph)

• Somehow this guy, who left his infant child in the car while he enjoyed himself at a strip club, isn’t the worst parent in the news today:
Three-year-old girl tightrope walks above six hungry Siberian tigers (And falls three times!) (The Telegraph)

Tags: Birds, Infants, Jealousy, Marriage, Maternal Death, Parenting, Television

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