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Why ‘Airbender’ casting was right in theory, wrong in execution

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Shopping for clothing with kids is bad enough, but it becomes virtually impossible when a kid wearing pale-yellow paints and with an arrow eye-linered onto a freshly shaved scalp pops around the corner. “Hey, guys, look! It’s Aang!” I called. “Aang” and Big Guy quickly became fast friends, following each other all over the store. [...]

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What’s so great about happy?

Happy. What is up with this one emotion that is valued above and beyond all others? And when did we get suckered into using it as a benchmark of success in our lives? Even more boggling, nowadays, moms and dads are responsible for their kid’s maintained level of euphoria. Why else would so many parenting [...]

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