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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. What to do with your “slacker” kid: relax, basically. “In fact, under the right conditions, middle-of-the-pack students may outperform their higher-achieving peers in the long run.”

2. I Don’t Know How She Does It comes out today. What’s changed between when the book was written 10 years ago, and now?

3. Awesome and inspiring teenage activists.

4. Ever wondered what’s going on when you’re soothing your crying baby?

5. Oh Weetabix, you know awesome dancing kids get us everytime! We’ll try your cereal.

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