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Yesterday, I mentioned that pop band Mates of State is once again blogging on Babble about the challenges of parenting while on tour. Today, another story of rock and roll ‘renting. Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy talks about telling his kid about his past drug use (and resetting the little dude’s expectations around Wikipedia accuracy):

“Well, you know Spencer is 11, and awhile back, he said ‘I just read on Wikipedia that you started smoking pot when you quit drinking in nineteen-whatever. That makes me so mad. Wikipedia is always so wrong. It’s just like, so stupid.’ And I had to take him aside and say ‘Spencer, I didn’t think I was going to have to have this discussion with you at this age, because it is not something that has really entered your world, but I don’t want to lie to you. That Wikipedia thing, there are probably a lot of wrong things on there, but that is not one of them. That happened.’”