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News Round-Up Nov. 4: Elmo Will Help Your Kid Ditch the Pacifier, Eating All the Candy and Kids on Facebook

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.

News and Culture Five

News Round-Up Oct. 27: Generation Catalano, Girls Don’t Have Any Innate Difficulty With Math and This Year’s Hot Toy?

What we’re reading today:

 

1. Oh boy who’s excited for this? One of the possible hot new toys this holiday season is a pooping dog.

2. Are you Generation Catalano? We did have that picture of Jared Leto from Seventeen up in our locker…

3. How do you take a pacifier away from your 3-year-old?

4. Contrary to what you may have read on a dumb t-shirt, girls are good at math, provided they don’t have to waste energy fighting for equal fights and raging against the patriarchy.

5. Meet the life-saving 2-year-old:

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