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What we’re reading today:

1. Parenting experts say that parents of teens need to stop talking when their kid is talking back.

2. Doctors say babies should give up soothers after they’re a year old. If you need a little help getting your kid to kick their pacifier habit, Elmo is more than ready to help out.

3. Facebook is only supposed to be available to people 13-years-old and up, but there’s a whole lot of preteens on the social networking site — why’d their parents allow it?

4. And don’t forget, this weekend Daylight Savings time ends — clocks go back on Sunday morning. Experts say this can really mess with your kids’ schedule.

5. And did anyone see Jimmy Kimmel’s challege to parents on Monday? He wanted parents to tell their kids that they ate all their candy… and videotape it and put it on Youtube.  Read more...

What we’re reading today:

1. Stop lying to your kids! If they’re not doing great at something, don’t tell them they are.

2. Kate Winslet’s son, age 7, knows it’s OK if he grows up to be gay.

3. Preemies who need blood drawn show less pain when they’re being held by mom or dad, but especially mom.

4. Do you monitor the music your kids listen to? Do they sing along to Lady Gaga without actually knowing what she means by disco stick?

5. Harry Potter’s first press conference! Look how cute they are!!

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What we’re reading today:

1. Loving this dirty little secrets series on the Globe. The most recent features a mom who lied to her 3-year-old son to get him to start potty training.

2. “Are we raising a generation of impatient brats?”

3. Bunch travel blogger Corinne McDermott wrote a little something for ParentCentral.ca about taking advantage of a business trip to get some time to recharge.

4. Everyone we know is pregnant with their third baby. (Seems like, anyway) How do you decide if you’re going to have more kids?

5. This is not a kid who just gives up on things

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