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Parenting workshop series are being offered (The Warren Reporter) - Project Self-Sufficiency will offer a series of parenting workshops designed for families with different types of needs. The free classes will help create understanding between parents and their children while emphasizing positive discipline and improved communication.

Free Parenting Classes Come to Macon (13 WMAZ Macon) - It's no secret motherhood doesn't come with a manual. Rather, it's filled with challenges mothers and fathers must figure out on their own. A nationwide program called Triple P, or the Positive Parenting Program, recently kicked off the first program in Georgia. It's right here in Macon.

Family center offers love, logic parenting classes (La Junta Tribune-Democrat) - Tri-County Family Care Center and Child Development Services will be co-sponsoring "Love & Logic" parenting classes Wednesday evenings from Jan. 16 through Feb. 20. The six sessions will be held at the Child Development Services Center, 138 Sixth St., Las Animas from 6 to 8:30 p.m., with Toni Cook presenting.

Focus on parenting and reproductive health (The Star) - The National Population and Family Development Board Malaysia (LPPKN) has been working quietly in the background for the past few decades and slowly shaping family units in terms of better parenting and heightened awareness on reproductive health.

On Parenting: Genes—Not Vaccines—Linked to Autism (US News & World Report) - New studies reveal a genetic cause and find no connection to shots containing thimerosal.

Parenting lesson (The Pratt Tribune) - Skyline eighth grader Destiny Golden holds a special doll during science class. The dolls are programmed to cry and won't stop until they get proper attention. Students had to take care of the dolls all day Wednesday to learn what it would be like to be a parent and be responsible for a child.

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Good Question: Can Parents Stop Youthful Drinking? (WCCO Minneapolis/St. Paul) - There are two schools of thought when it comes to alcohol and parenting. Some support the idea of preaching abstinence. Other researchers believe the concept of harm reduction is more effective.

Sarkozy is mean, cold and a serial womaniser, says ex-wife Cécilia (Independent) - The former French first lady Cécilia Sarkozy has tried to block publication of a book in which she is quoted as criticising her ex-husband's morals, his parenting skills and his fitness to be president.

Poll: Moms find sex was better before they had kids (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) - A large, but perhaps not surprising, majority of moms (78 percent) say sex was better before they had kids, according to a new Parenting magazine poll of 1,300 mothers.