New Links on The Block

 Your children may be too young to text with you now, but the day will come when they too might submit your messages to When Parents Text  Over at Slate, Brian Palmer looks at whether secondhand car seats are safe and other eco-riddles for expecting parents.  This week in her GOOP newsletter, Gwyneth Paltrow interviews Mary Hartzell, the director of the First Presbyterian Nursery School in Santa Monica, about her theories on parenting.  Mark Frauenfelder of Boing Boing tries out Papertoy Monsters (pictured above), the new book that comes with 50 die-cut templates for creating your own cardboard monsters. All you need is glue.  A new survey has found that the majority of teens are not reluctant to friend their parents on Facebook.  The internet is buzzing about Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, after a New York Times review and profile of Amy Chua and her memoir about the art of tough Chinese parenting.  For a limited time, get a one year subscription to Parents magazine for $1 from Barnes & Noble using coupon code K9B9J4H. (At checkout, choose Apply a Gift Card.)