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Parenting program approved (News-Herald) - Lake County will serve as a pilot site for the Parent Project, a program designed to help the parents of at-risk youths learn new parenting skills and improve their current ones.

In search of 'ex'cellence in parenting (Inside Bay Area) - Q: I'M DATING a divorced guy with a 7-year-old daughter. He has no parenting routine other than cleaning teeth and bedtime.

Boyfriend lacks parenting skills (The Monterey County Herald) - Q: I'm dating a divorced guy with a 7-year-old daughter. He has no parenting routine other than cleaning teeth and bedtime. He criticizes his ex for the quality of the food she feeds their daughter, yet he is just as bad.

Parenting classes to begin at Family Resource Center (Kern Valley Sun) - The Kernville Union School District Family Resource Center in Lake Isabella announced that a new series of parenting classes entitled, “Building Confident and Healthy Families,”is slated to start Thursday, Jan. 18.

Parenting class for divorced, separated set Monday (The Enid News & Eagle) - ALVA — Northwest Family Services Inc. staff member Amber Maier will teach the organization’s “Parenting Through Separation and Divorce” class Monday. The class will be 6 to 9 p.m. at Northwest Family Services, 620 Flynn, Alva.

Vermont - Virginia Gay Parenting Case Goes On  (365Gay.com) - (Rutland, Vermont) A court has ordered a woman to pay $240 a month to her former lesbian partner for child support in a case that is testing legal questions on how states differ in their recognition of same-sex relationships.

Agency helps seniors start "a second act" at parenting young relatives (Seattle Times) - At 89, Clara Perkins was content to live out her days watching one soap opera after another. Then "the call" came two summers ago. Airianna Smith, then 14...

'Parenting test' isset to be removed (The Scotsman) - PERHAPS unsurprisingly, when the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act was passed in 1990, one of the key principles was providers of assisted reproduction services should have consideration for the welfare of the potential child.

JOHN ROSEMOND PARENTING: Adoption just way to build family (The Myrtle Beach Sun News) - C ertain child-rearing subjects hit huge nerves, one such subject being adoption. I opined in a recent column that it is unwise for parents to make a child's adoption a centerpiece of his or her life, to do what most adoption professionals recommend and refer to it regularly. (I am also generally opposed to "open" adoption, which I think would be more accurately termed tentative nonkinship ...

Parenting tip of the week (Savannah Morning News) - Biting behavior can be frustrating for parents, and must be discouraged from the first biting episode. Toddlers may use biting as a way of communicating their feelings. Children may bite out of frustration or to get attention. Parents can discourage biting behavior by firmly say "No biting" and remove the child from the situation. Put he/she in a time-out away from other young children, and give ...