6/3/2019: Learn about the College Board's new SAT score - Tylenol For Infants And Children Is The Same. Why Does 1 Cost 3 Times More?

Today's Article: Learn about the College Board's new SAT score
From: CNN
Readability Score: 11.5

Adversity: a hindrance or an edge?

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Today's Alternate Article: Tylenol For Infants And Children Is The Same. Why Does 1 Cost 3 Times More?
Readability Score: 8.8

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9/10/2018: From penny press to Snapchat: Parents fret through the ages - Children Banned from Restaurants

Today's Article: From penny press to Snapchat: Parents fret through the ages
From: Associated Press
Readability Score: 12.4

Social media moral panic?

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Readability Score: 9.7

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8/28/2017: Solar Eclipses Baffle, Captivate Humans Throughout History - 'Dirt Is Good': Why Kids Need Exposure To Germs

Today's Article: Solar Eclipses Baffle, Captivate Humans Throughout History
From: UPI
Readability Score: 10.4

While modern humans understand the moon has passed between the sun and Earth, temporarily blocking out the sun, that has not always been the case and the momentary darkness has garnered a wide range of reactions throughout history.

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Today's Alternate Article: 'Dirt Is Good': Why Kids Need Exposure To Germs
Readability Score: 7.5

As a new parent, Jack Gilbert got a lot of different advice on how to properly look after his child: when to give him antibiotics or how often he should sterilize his pacifier, for example.

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5/22/2017: Is Grass-Fed Dairy Healthier for You? - Parents Don’t Want to Name Their Kids Mike Anymore

Today's Article: Is Grass-Fed Dairy Healthier for You?
From: MSN
Readability Score: 10.5

The Food and Drug Administration is expected to approve a new infant formula made from the milk of cows that are on pasture 365 days a year.

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Today's Alternate Article: Parents Don’t Want to Name Their Kids Mike Anymore
Readability Score: 7.3

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5/10/2017: Everything We Knew About Sweatshops Was Wrong - Couple With 5 Biological Children Adopts 6 Siblings

Today's Article: Everything We Knew About Sweatshops Was Wrong
From: New York Times
Readability Score: 12.2

In the 1990s, Americans learned more about the appalling conditions at the factories where our sneakers and T-shirts were made...

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Today's Alternate Article: Couple With 5 Biological Children Adopts 6 Siblings
Readability Score: 10.0

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4/17/2017: The Father Of The Web Is Worried About How Ugly It's Become - Mission Nearly Impossible this Spring: Finding a Home to Buy

Today's Article: The Father Of The Web Is Worried About How Ugly It's Become
From: NPR
Readability Score: 10.9

Berners-Lee created the Web in 1989 as a way for researchers to share information with each other on the Internet.

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Today's Alternate Article: Mission Nearly Impossible this Spring: Finding a Home to Buy
Readability Score: 9.8

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2/21/2017: Judge Orders Mother to Avoid More Pregnancies - Mall Walker Turns 100

Today's Article: Judge Orders Mother to Avoid More Pregnancies
From: CNN
Readability Score: 12.2

The mother...had already been stripped of custody of her four children.

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Today's Alternate Article: Mall Walker Turns 100
Readability Score: 8.6

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1/19/2017: Why Getting Farmers to Switch from Tobacco Crops is a Struggle - Helping Your Child Comfort a Grieving Pal

Today's Article: Why Getting Farmers to Switch from Tobacco Crops is a Struggle
From: CNBC
Readability Score: 15.0

Ninety percent of tobacco is grown within low and middle income countries ... where four in five smokers live

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Today's Alternate Article: Helping Your Child Comfort a Grieving Pal
Readability Score: 7.8

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1/5/2017: Scientists: C-Sections Increasing Because We're Messing With Evolution - In a Pakistan Family, Deal is Made, a Girl Is Given as Bride

Today's Article: Scientists: C-Sections Increasing Because We're Messing With Evolution
From: Idaho Statesman
Readability Score: 11.0

Childbirth is intense and about one-third of all births in the U.S. are delivered by Caesarean section...

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Today's Alternate Article: In a Pakistan Family, Deal is Made, a Girl Is Given as Bride
Readability Score: 7.9

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11/11/2016: Meet the Machines That Know What's Funny - Is it Right to Train Babies to Sleep?

Today's Article: Meet the Machines That Know What's Funny
From: Bloomberg
Readability Score: 12.8

I’d like to buy a new boomerang please. Also, can you tell me how to throw the old one away?

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Today's Alternate Article: Is it Right to Train Babies to Sleep?
Readability Score: 8.9

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10/28/2016: Not Voting for President as an Act of Conscience - Mom Teaches Son Valuable Life Lesson: Household Work Isn't Just for Women

Today's Article: Not Voting for President as an Act of Conscience
From: ABC News
Readability Score: 12.3

A recent Pew Research Center study found that many voters are motivated to head to the polls out of their dislike for one particular presidential candidate...

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Today's Alternate Article: Mom Teaches Son Valuable Life Lesson: Household Work Isn't Just for Women
Readability Score: 7.1

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10/25/2016: Rotterdam Calls for 'Incompetent Mothers' to Take Compulsory Contraception - Bride Loses 100+ Pounds After Engagement Pic Wake-Up Call

Today's Article: Rotterdam Calls for 'Incompetent Mothers' to Take Compulsory Contraception
From: Independent (UK)
Readability Score: 12.2

'Not being born is a form of child protection too,' says alderman responsible for youth welfare

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Today's Alternate Article: Bride Loses 100+ Pounds After Engagement Pic Wake-Up Call
Readability Score: 8.6

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10/10/2016: Our IQs Have Never Been Higher--But It Hasn't Made Us Smart - 'I Wasn't There To Help': Dad With Newborn Struggles With Lack Of Leave

Today's Article: Our IQs Have Never Been Higher--But It Hasn't Made Us Smart
From: BBC
Readability Score: 12.3

We tend to assume that our intelligence is simply a matter of nature and nurture – but as James Flynn explains...many other factors can stunt or boost your IQ, right down to the person you choose to marry.

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Today's Alternate Article: 'I Wasn't There To Help': Dad With Newborn Struggles With Lack Of Leave
Readability Score: 8.6

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9/26/2016: Governor Brown Signs Sweeping Legislation to Combat Climate Change - New Jersey Dad's Heartbreaking School Photo Highlights Son's Loneliness

Today's Article: Governor Brown Signs Sweeping Legislation to Combat Climate Change
From: Los Angeles Times
Readability Score: 12.5

California will become a petri dish for international efforts to slow global warming under legislation signed by Gov. Jerry Brown...

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Today's Alternate Article: New Jersey Dad's Heartbreaking School Photo Highlights Son's Loneliness
Readability Score: 8.6

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9/21/2016: Meet the Parents Who Won't Let Their Children Study Literature - NFL Commissioner to Reluctant Football Parents: We're Making the Game Safer

Today's Article: Meet the Parents Who Won't Let Their Children Study Literature
From: Washington Post
Readability Score: 14.0

I found it shocking that some of the brightest students in Virginia had been misled...into thinking that choosing English or history as a major would doom them to lives as impecunious schoolteachers.

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Today's Alternate Article: NFL Commissioner to Reluctant Football Parents: We're Making the Game Safer
Readability Score: 8.9

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5/24/2016: Should Pediatricians Ask Parents If They're Poor? - 11-Year-Old With Down Syndrome's Friends Go to Bat So They Can Attend Middle School Together

Today's Article: Should Pediatricians Ask Parents If They're Poor?
From: NPR
Readability Score: 14.0

The American Academy of Pediatrics urges members to ask if their patients' families are struggling financially and then commit to helping them get the resources they need to thrive.

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Today's Alternate Article: 11-Year-Old With Down Syndrome's Friends Go to Bat So They Can Attend Middle School Together
Readability Score: 8.1

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4/22/2016: Presidential Parenting: Does Parenting Style Tell Us About a Candidate? - Boy's Transatlantic Text, Fast Police Work Save 15 Migrants

Today's Article: Presidential Parenting: Does Parenting Style Tell Us About a Candidate? (14.1)
From: CNN

Ted Cruz, standing beside his adorable Taylor Swift-loving daughters, tells a story about how his 5-year-old gives great hugs.

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Today's Alternate Article: Boy's Transatlantic Text, Fast Police Work Save 15 Migrants (8.7)

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3/16/2016: Don’t Post About Me on Social Media, Children Say - Terminally Ill Boy Granted Final Wish to Be Sheriff for a Day

Today's Article: Don’t Post About Me on Social Media, Children Say (11.2)
From: New York Times

Sites like Facebook and Instagram are now baked into the world of today’s families.

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Today's Alternate Article: Terminally Ill Boy Granted Final Wish to Be Sheriff for a Day (6.5)

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3/9/2016: Free Speech Ends Where Sedition Begins - Mom Pens Blog Post to Change Conversation Around her Daughter's Birthmark

Today's Article: Free Speech Ends Where Sedition Begins (9.1)
From: New York Times

With some students in India holding events in support of Kashmir independence, and taking up the cause of men convicted of terrorism, the country faces a debate over the limits of free speech. On the New York Times opinion page, M.J. Akbar, an Indian Member of Parliament, argues that national security and sovereignty should come before free speech.

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Today's Alternate Article: Mom Pens Blog Post to Change Conversation Around her Daughter's Birthmark (8.4)

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