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(CNN) -- Facebook is now letting parents-to-be list their unborn children on their personal profiles.Among options that include daughter, son, wife and husband, the "Friends and Family" section under "Edit Profile" now allows the option "Expected: Child." Parents can add a due date and the baby's name."We're always testing new features," a Facebook spokesperson said via e-mail. "Earlier this year, Facebook started providing the option to add an 'Expected: Child' as a way for users to more accurately express their identity."The option may have existed for a while, but the Internet didn't seem to pick up on it until this week. And the British Daily Mail was reporting that the feature rolled out last Wednesday.With the feature, the expected child would appear next to other family members on the user's profile and the changed status would appear in friends' News Feed. [Read the full article] (CNN) -- If you're going through withdrawal after the end of the Harry Potter series, or if you outgrew "The Chronicles of Narnia" and have moved past the "Lord of the Rings," we have just the thing for you: Welcome back to the magical land of Fillory!Best-selling author Lev Grossman first took readers to the fictional Fillory in "The Magicians" in 2009. The book was a best-seller, both a critical and commercial hit.Now Grossman is back with an ambitious sequel, "The Magician King," arriving in bookstores this Tuesday.If you're new to the series, "The Magicians" is the story of Quentin Coldwater, a teenage wannabe wizard from Chesterton, Massachusetts. Quentin learns all about magic at the Hogwarts-ish, Brakebills University and later discovers that Fillory, a Narnia-like world he grew up reading about, is in fact real. [Read the full article] (Parenting.com) -- As a baby, my daughter Anna refused to wear her shoes or socks. Not a big deal if we lived on a sunny beach. But we live in Montana -- and she was born in late October. So the first line of the mother-daughter battlefield was drawn: I put her shoes and socks on, she worked them off. If she was lucky, she'd push them off when we were in transit and they'd be lost forever. Score: Anna 1, Mom 0.Then one day, while we were on vacation, a stranger wandered into the crossfire. She was older, better rested, better dressed, and apparently a self-proclaimed authority on baby podiatry. She took one look at Anna in the hotel lobby and screeched, "Ooooh! Look at the tiny little baby with the cold feet!""They aren't cold," I said, instantly defensive. "Feel them!" I thrust my daughter's feet, dangling from my chest as she hung in her front carrier, toward the woman's hands. [Read the full article] 
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