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Texas schools to teach children about parenting, paternity (USA Today) - High schools in Texas are adding a new topic to their curricula: Parenting skills. The Houston Chronicle says health teachers in the Lone Star State will be required to give students formal parenting advice in the coming school year. Officials...

Stress less: Parenting II (Norwalk Advocate) - Thanks for returning for Part II of this parenting series. In Part I, I discussed how you can keep the parenting train on track when dealing with young children. Now we're getting into the really tough stuff: the teen years. Books, movies and TV bombard us with stories about wayward teens. Developmentally, teenagers are experiencing the need to separate from us, and are beginning to establish ...

What Straights Can Learn From Gays about Relationships and Parenting (Newswise) - Psychological studies of lesbian and gay couples reveal key factors that promote healthier relationships and parenting, and can serve as examples for straight couples. Psychologist and researcher Robert-Jay Green, PhD provides insight into these important characteristics that can result in more satisfying marital and family relations.

Branson district offers parenting classes beginning Feb. 5 (The Springfield News-Leader) - The Branson School District will hold a spring series of Love and Logic parenting classes. The six-session workshop begins Feb. 5 and will be held in the Primary Gymnasium. The sessions are designed to help parents with the most important and difficult job they have — being a parent and teaching responsibility to their children. All workshops are free of charge and open to all district parents, ...

New school year brings new class: parenting (Houston Chronicle) - Sandwiched between lessons on counting calories and staving off disease, high school health teachers will offer hefty doses of parenting advice in the next school year.

Food extravaganza to aid parenting program (TCPalm.com) - Food extravaganza to aid parenting program

Parenting TV shows 'may harm children' (Daily Telegraph) - The NSPCC is to set up a new body to protect children who appear on reality television shows because it is worried about "irresponsible" parenting programmes.

Ban on Spears visitation stays / Pop star a no-show at hearing - police, parenting coach testify (San Francisco Chronicle) - A Superior Court commissioner decided Monday to keep in effect an earlier order suspending Britney Spears' right to visit her two sons and keeping them in ex-husband Kevin Federline's custody. The ruling by Commissioner Scott Gordon came after a full day of...

Parenting: Family can join son's health improvement plan (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - Q. I was recently at the pediatrician's office with my son, who is in second grade. His doctor said he is overweight and borderline obese. Could you help me with a plan to help my son? ...

Everymom Blog (Northwest Herald) - Jami Kunzer writes about parenting. Click here to read her blog.