All the Jewish parenting news you probably didn't have time to read this week.
–A new public service announcementcompares co-sleeping to putting a baby to bed alongside a giant knife.(Salon)
– Is the fear ofbeing labeled "sexist"thwarting important research on the differences between boys' and girls' brains?(Slate)
–Pizza retains its classificationas a "vegetable" — at least as far as school lunch programs are concerned.(Reuters)
– Parents with young childrenare taking issuewith 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 Postfor 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'Motherlodeblog.(Adweek)
–Over at Motherlode,KJ Dellantonia,who ably stepped in following Belkin's departure,questions the zeal of home-birth cheerleaders.(Motherlode)
– Disney buysBabble.(Dealbook)
– And Mickey and Minnie's latest acquisition introduces us to "Peregrine," "Samoset," "Damaris",and other baby names"inspired by the First Thanksgiving." (Babble)
