why don't you tell me about these things?.....

ok, so the last child is making her way through her 15 un-finished social studies assignments by reading the newspaper and writing a summary of a few articles...and she is just now reading about the little girl from india with the extra arms and legs (from a partially absorbed twin).....and when i told her that this was an old story...she was adamant that i should be keeping her up-to-date on interesting stuff like this...i suppose my lack of a myspace account allows me plenty of time to read cnn, nytimes, wpost, and assorted blogs.......