Aries (March 21 - April 19) Today's full Moon urges you to stop procrastinating -- and tend to a few mundane details around the house. Why not send your little tyke off to enjoy an afternoon at the pool or park with their friends? You'll get a lot more done without them underfoot. Today's Aries Reading: Free Sample Chakra Reading

Taurus (April 20 - May 20) Creativity is heightened on this full Moon day. It's the perfect time to send the kiddo off to arts-and-crafts class or workshop. While you and Dad find creative ways to put the romance back in your lives. Enjoy this special day. Today's Taurus Reading: Free Sample Karmic Love Reading

Gemini (May 21 - June 21) Someone has to attend to the details and errands. Lucky you -- on this full Moon day that person is you! Although it may seem like drudgery to do the

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How to Prepare Your Child for Getting Lost After writing about taking Addie to downtown Indianapolis during the Super Bowl, I was contacted by a local hospital about keeping kids safe as you head into crowded places. Super Bowl aside, we take our kids out in public all the time. Some places are more crowded than others, but the panic that comes over a parent when they don't see their child is the same in a crowd of 100 or a crowd of 100,000.

Three years ago we were at Disney World when a woman's son went missing. She was hysterical but thankfully Disney had a very thorough method for finding lost children. Watching her was heartbreaking and I did my best to console her, and in the end her seven-year-old son came back smiling as if nothing had ever happened. (I have a feeling she wanted to both strangle and smother him with love all at once.)

The good news is that there are easy ways to instill confidence in your child in case they do go missing without freaking them out about stranger danger.

Safety ALWAYS first. Know Before You Go
Before you

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Romney barely wins the Ohio primary, the NBA considers ads

on uniforms, a dad and daughter get caught with pot candy, and much more on

today's Daily Shot.

Ali Uncensored:

I always look tired, because I am:

Should I get plastic surgery?

My first date with George: Cellulite

and nipple hair

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Toy doctor's kit.Before I even get started, I'll go ahead and admit that no one was diagnosed with an incurable or serious illness. Nothing was sticking out of anyone's nose and we left with only a prescription in hand. In fact, I admit that using the word "worst" in the title of this post is an utter exaggeration. Still, it was pretty nasty.

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So, here's what happened: one of my children, who shall remain nameless to protect his privacy once he reaches the age when he can read these posts himself, recently began complaining of an itchy sensation around the, for lack of a better word, butthole. Of course, I could have said anus, but that's not nearly as fun. Anyway, the problem continued for a few days and became so uncomfortable that he actually woke up in the middle of the night to complain about it. So, I schlepped him to the doctor's office expecting to be sent off with no explanation other than, "your child needs to wipe better."

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The latest issue of Elle magazine just hits stands and in it mom-to-be Jessica Simpson confirms she's expecting a baby girl.

Oh yeah, and Jess poses nude on the cover, as well.

You have to give her--and let's admit it, Photoshop--credit because she looks good. But is anyone else kind of over this same old pose? I mean from Demi Moore on Vanity Fair to even Kim Zolciak in Life & Style, how many times can we see this same pose done?

Even still, Jessica is beautiful and we can't wait to meet her baby girl.

What do you think of the cover? Share your thoughts in the comments.

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The phrase child star is synonymous with tragic outcomes and E! true Hollywood stories. But there's another route: the parenting guru.

Did you ever think you'd be taking child-rearing advice from Blossom? Two decades after her sitcom aired, Mayim Bialik has launched a second career as an unofficial spokesperson for attachment parenting. Actually, after her neuroscience Ph.D and her TV comeback on 'The Big Bang Theory,' it's a fourth career, but who's counting?

In Beyond The Sling: A Real-Life Guide to Raising Confident, Loving Children the Attachment Parenting Way, the 36-year-old mother of two boys, touts the benefits of co-sleeping and diaper-free potty training.

Last year, Bialik's unconventional mothering methods drew both admiration and ire when she blogged one the website Kveller about breast feeding her 3-year-old.

Bialik let both Miles, 6, and Frederick, 3, dictate the weening process, which meant they continued to breastfeed much later than most kids. Other Bialik-isms:

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Actress Reese Witherspoon recently geared up to celebrate International Women's Day on March 8th by speaking at the World Conference of Women's Shelters and drawing attention to her long-standing cause of ending violence against women.

A recent Washington Post report discusses Witherspoon's 5-year long partnership with the Avon Foundation for Women and how she educates her own children about the dangers of domestic violence.

Witherspoon explains how she used the highly publicized arrest of Chris Brown when he assaulted Rihanna in 2009 to have a dinner-time conversation with her kids about violence against women. She explains, "I think it's very powerful for children to know they can make a change in their community and schools."

Witherspoon worries that the seriousness of the issue may not be totally understood by kids who hear these reports and may become desensitized. Witherspoon explains, "People need to understand this is happening in one in three households in

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Photo: ThinkstockPrepare and Pre-Pack

What do you wish for your morning routine? Create a "to do" checklist for each day-at least until you establish a consistency. Talk with your kids about what their morning routines should look like too. Young kids may have fun drawing pictures of each step of their morning schedules, while adolescents and teens can benefit from creating "responsibility charts" that will help them sail smoothly through their daily routines. Make pre-packing easier by creating inboxes (and in turn, their outboxes) for each person. Have each person unload their backpack (or your purse or work bag), and keep important papers and must-haves for next day's use.

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Get Future Focused

Go over your next day's schedule before bed. Check the weather report too. You'll sleep better-and dress better-if you know as much as possible of what's in store. And don't forget to call ahead for carpool so you don't spend half the morning

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