Web coolness: Cross-stitch tattoos, a LEGO minifig that’s overdue, and talking to your kids about kindness during a bitter election cycle.
Here are some links we’ve liked reading around the web this week. We hope you like them too.
First, here’s how to follow us on Facebook. It’s been feisty over there lately!
Cross-stitch tattoos from an amazing tattoo artist, @evakrbdk Whoa.
Wonderful, important essay on talking to your kids about kindness and decency during an ugly election cycle.
What to tell your kids instead of “nice try.”
Getting more protein into your kids, especially if they’re not big meat-eaters.
10 books that encourage kids to stand up and speak out. Nice seeing some of our own faves on the list, like Rad American Women and A is for Activist.
The first LEGO Minifig in a wheelchair is coming. We’re just wondering why it didn’t happen sooner.
We’re so glad that Alice Bradley of Finslippy is blogging again. We missed her!
The Equity movie: One Sundance premiere we can’t wait to see.
A smart Minecraft PE primer, if your kids are begging for it and you don’t know where to start.
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Love this Instagram account from Peechya Burroughs which creates such playful portraits with balloons. (via Design Taxi)
The voting body of the Oscars is changing. A lot.
Can you talk about periods without whispering? Here’s why you should.
Poignant: About the children affected by Flint’s water crisis.
Remembering Christa McAuliffe and The Challenger crew, 30 years later.
A reminder that it’s okay to seek help if you’re suffering from postpartum depression. It’s not a “pharmaceutical conspiracy,” as one best-selling author has been suggesting.
I never thought twice about diapering my son with the eco-not-so-conscious disposable diaper. I have to admit, I thought that cloth diapers were still big cotton towels that required safety pins, manual dexterity, and a whole lot of free time.
Don’t get any sick ideas, dear readers. We’ve all seen our share of those softies and we certainly don’t need a stuffed one of THOSE laying around the house. 
When my 3 year old was a newborn we planned a trip to Europe and before I could say auf viedersehn, my brain pictured all the filthy traveling potties we would encounter while changing her diaper.