News Roundup: Parents on Facebook; Toddlers on Nicotine; Jennifer Lopez on Motherhood

How parents and their kids co-exist uneasily on Facebook.  Yeah, it could be really horrifying to see drunken pictures… on your MOM’s wall. [Parent Dish]

A candy-like lozenge designed to satisfy nicotine cravings could tempt and poison toddlers.  Yikes.  Good thing all we have are colorful liquor bottles in our bottom cabinet with no safety latch!  [LA Times]

Preventing adoption disasters.  (AKA “How to avoid getting to the point where sticking a 7-year-old on a plane to Moscow with a note disavowing him seems like a grand idea.”)  [Boston Globe]

Jennifer Lopez:  “I kind of wish [motherhood] would have happened to me earlier in my life.”   Yeah, too bad it didn’t happen when she was with Diddy.  He doesn’t have nearly enough kids!  [Parade]

Spanking makes kids more aggressive.   So might I suggest a more effective punishment:  Make them watch Battlefield Earth on loop? [NY Times]

Study shows that waiting to have babies may increase your lifetime earnings.  I’m no finance wizard, but I’d also bet that not having them at all increases your lifetime savings.  [ModernMom]

It’s a boy for Young and the Restless star Christel Khalil Hensley.  Sadly, no soap opera-like “Who’s the Daddy?” drama surrounds the birth.  [Baby Scoop]

Are baby-themed movies Hollywood’s new obsession?  At least that’s better than when Hollywood was obsessed with making Robocop movies. [Hollywood Reporter]

How Suri Cruise celebrated her fourth birthday.  In a pair of Jimmy Choo stilettos, perhaps?  [Us Weekly]