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End-of-Week News: Instilling Confidence in Kids; Teaching Bilingualism in Womb; Anticipating New Hottest Toy

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End-of-Week News: Instilling Confidence in Kids; Teaching Bilingualism in Womb; Anticipating New Hottest Toy

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A list of books that teach kids confidence.  Which probably shouldn’t include publications supporting the notion that… [lilSugar]

…At size 4, model Coco Rocha is latest of many women considered fat by the fashion industry.  I know, I know… MOOOO!  [NY Daily News]

Bilingualism might begin in the womb.  Uh-oh.  Hope my baby didn’t pick up my, um, “French.”  [BusinessWeek]

Toy Fair 2010: An iPod Touch-like toy for preschoolers could become the holiday season’s hottest new toy.  Which kind of puts the tape recorder I had at that age to shame.  [LA Times]

More children have chronic diseases; study cites obesity.  Somewhere, Michelle Obama is saying, “Let’s move!”  [USA Today]

Elin will not be at Tiger’s televised apology today.  Laughing Stork sources say she will be too busy shopping for a male chastity belt to attend.  [Radar]

Wii’s “Imagine Party Babyz,” a game that places players in the role of a baby in daycare, is on sale for $9.99.  Complete with bonus ear infection![Amazon]

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Candy Kirby is the founder of The Laughing Stork and a professional fun-maker who will never stop chasing her lifelong dream: to find the Pomeranian or porn star after whom her parents must have named her. A humor columnist for Disney, Nickelodeon, Scary Mommy, Reductress and Redbook, she also used to be a staff writer for the soap opera, The Bold and the Beautiful, where she penned many scripts featuring prolonged heated stares and countless “Who’s the Daddy?” story lines. Candy lives in Los Angeles with her husband, two young kids and three rescue Persian cats, the latter of whom are the real brains behind this operation (so send all complaints to them).

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