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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.