So not quite Monte Carlo or bust, but a week where we might learn quite a lot about the boy from Dunblane.

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Raising a boy, for instance, is quite different from raising girls. (In our first time as parents, my husband and I had two daughters.) While my girls were emotional, easily upset, demonstrative and clingy, boys often slink into the house after school, trying to avoid all manner of human contact.

WSJ: When Grandparents Become Parents, the Second Time Around

That was quite a punch to the emotional solar plexus of an eight-year-old boy.

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Listen Boy is a horse named for a cheeky Irishman who once, quite paternalistically, tried to tell Plank how things worked in the horse-racing business.

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The story of a boy and his giant dragon puppy looks endearing and graphically stunning, though nobody is quite sure just what sort of game it will be, as Team Ico has been rather short on details.

FORBES: Sony Isn't Abandoning 'The Last Guardian'

We're not quite sure what kind of high-def party went down overseas this past week, but boy, was it a big one.

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