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• PRODUCT ALERT: Everyone at school can pretty much tell when a father is responsible for styling his little girl's coif in the morning. What's a follicly challenged patriarch to do? Momlogic interviews Craig Lawry, author of Does Your Daughter Have Dad Hair?
  


• OK, OK, we get it -- it's funny to try to sell people on eBay: Girl attempts to pawn off "cuddly but annoying granny."


• Forget Disney -- now our kids want to journey to Dubai for spring break: Arab state opens world's largest candy store.


• CELEBRITY ALERT: Sean Preston and Jaden James, we envy you: Britney ends tour by buying $3,000 of candy. And she didn't even have to go to Dubai! (See, that's what we call a "callback.")


• They definitely receive an A for originality: Teen arrested for branding friend with, among other implements, a fork, a cookie cutter, a crucifix, and a key ring.


• Is there a conspiracy to make our kids sedentary and stupid? First Disney puts all their books online (see link below); now Saratoga Springs school district bans walking and biking to school.


• PRODUCT ALERT: Get ready to lug your laptop into bed for storytime: Disney digitizes more than 500 of its most popular titles.


• Gawker fights for your kids' right to smoke salvia (not saliva -- though that would probably be more fun to watch than the videos of the kids smoking salvia).


• You unappreciative brats: A mom reminisces about how great it is to be a kid.


• “Me mammy and me daddy ah drink too much rum, dem nah send me to school. When me stepfather beat me mammy, she does run to she married husband…." So said the 12-year-old caught by the truant officer.
  


• PRODUCT ALERT: Remember the hubbub when Mattel announced an updated Dora for preteen girls? Well -- she's heeeeeere.