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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.

Health sentinel Column: ‘Helicopter parenting’ hurts more than helps (Fort Wayne News-Sentinel) - A parenting disorder is sweeping the nation. Although it has not yet been entered into the latest version of the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual,” the bible of psychiatric disorders, look for it there soon. If not there, it will be in the manual “How to Ruin Your Child’s Life — Even After the Child Leaves Home.” It should already be in the “Encyclopedia of Parenting No-Nos.”

Youth center to host parenting workshop (Marin Independent Journal) - There will be a 10-week parenting workshop series, called Parent Project, starting Jan. 24 at the Novato Youth Center. The workshop is designed for parents of middle and high school students dealing with failing grades, drug or alcohol abuse or parent-child conflict issues.

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 strains readers' friendships (MSNBC) - When we asked how kids affected women's friendships, as either parents or child-free friends of them, you jumped in with laments ranging from resigned (“we can never go back to where we were”) to graphic (“babies ooze yuck out of every orifice”).

Neglectful Indiana Mother Relinquishes Parenting Rights (News 25 Evansville) - INDIANAPOLIS - The mother whose child was found wandering on an interstate said she will give up the rights to her kids. Nancy Dyer's three-year-old son was found walking on Interstate 465 near Indianapolis.

Parenting strategies talk Tuesday at GPS (Chattanooga Times Free Press) - Dr. Ross Campbell, a child psychologist and author of "How to Really Love Your Child," will speak at Girls Preparatory School on Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Evans Center.

GET A LIFE: Children need our stimulation and love (Patriot Ledger) - For a show I am doing, I have spent the last couple of weeks reading periodicals and books devoted to parenting. None has validated my own experiences more than Dr. Martin Seligman’s book ‘‘The Optimistic Child.’’ I wish it had been available when I was bringing up my children.