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By Dana Macario, TODAY Moms Contributor
They'd rather smell each other than see each other. Teens are increasingly skipping the post-gym class shower. Anyone who finds this surprising has clearly blocked their own locker room memories.
Rice pudding for a girl, bananas for a boy. A very small (read: possibly inaccurate) Dutch study showed that women who ate diets high in calcium and magnesium at certain times in their ovulation cycle were more likely to have girls. It might not work but why pass up a good excuse to eat goat cheese and rice pudding?
Well, if Lindsay Lohan and other fallen child stars weren't reason enough to keep your kids out of show business, this story ought to do it. A model set up a phony casting call looking for an Indian baby girl for a Bollywood movie, only to kidnap the one-month old during the "audition".
NTSB, meet the flight attendants. Flight attendants, meet NTSB. And everyone, we'd like to introduce you to the FAA. Now that you all are acquainted, how about you get on the same page on this "car seat on the plane" issue? Despite NTSB recommendations that children under two have their own seat on the plane (in a car seat) and despite the fact that the FAA's website also recommends the practice, one flight attendant recently told a mother to take her child out of its car seat for take-off or risk getting kicked off the plane.
Hey parents, you just survived another year, what are you going to do now? If you just yelled "We're going to Disneyland!" you should check this out: Tips for surviving and maximizing the fun at the Magic Kingdom.