If you're planning to give someone roses for Valentine's Day, you should really know what SECRET MESSAGE you're sending with them.  That's right.  The number of roses you give apparently carries a meaning you never realized.  Here's a guide . . .

One rose is meant for early in a relationship, and means love at first sight.

Three roses represents a shared love, and should be a one-month anniversary gift.

Six roses symbolizes passion and infatuation.

Ten roses says you believe your love is PERFECT.

Twelve roses is perfect for Valentine's Day, and means "be mine."

Thirteen roses means you just want to be friends.  (???)

Fifteen roses means you're SORRY.

Twenty-four roses is like SHOUTING "I'm yours."

And 40 roses means your love is truly genuine.  And also you have a lot of money.

(Teleflora)

Ladies, get ready to rub this in the face of EVERY guy you know:  According to a new study, women are actually better at PARKING than men.  

For the study, researchers went undercover and took notes on more than 2,500 people parking in lots and garages.  They rated people on criteria like finding a space, accuracy in lining up to pull in, speed pulling in, and staying in the lines.

They found that women had better overall scores than men.  The only place where men outperformed women was the speed in parking . . . the average man took 16 seconds to park, the average woman took 21.

But men were worse at seeing open spots, less accurate lining up to pull into those spots, and more likely to park over the lines.

"Redbook" magazine asked parents to name the number one thing they WISH other people knew about their kids.  Here are the top 11 responses.

1. "Sometimes my kids are loud and obnoxious and it's not because I'm a bad parent."

2. "Boys are naturally curious and don't always sit still with their hands in their laps."

3. "Just because my house is messy doesn't mean I don't clean."

4. "If I had my way I wouldn't bring my kids to the store with me.  But I can't afford a babysitter."

5. "Children don't come out of molds.  They are very individual and have their own quirks that don't always follow 'the rules' in the parenting books."

6. "Raising cats and dogs is not the same as raising a child."

7. "I value my child's naptime.  We'll come to your event . . . but if we don't work it around the nap, my kids won't be all happy and smiling."

8. "I understand that you're getting annoyed.  Please have patience while I learn to be a parent and while my kids learn to be people."

9. "Children are not miniature adults.  They won't react to things the same way a rational adult would."

10. "Babies cry and toddlers throw fits.  They are not good or bad because of that . . . it just makes them a child."

11. "Please get over simply crying and whining at Target, the grocery store, and restaurants.  I can't teach my kids to behave in those places if I never take them there."