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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.”

Parenting: Dealing with teasing when child gets glasses (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - Q: My little girl is 3 and her doctor says she has to wear glasses. I'm worried that the other kids in her daycare will tease her. How can she get through this?

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.

Uganda: Teenage Mum - How Adeke Copes With Studies And Parenting (AllAfrica.com) - ANGELLA Adeke should have sat for her Senior Four in 2005, but she did not. She conceived while in S.3. She is now a student mother, with a nine-month-old baby girl. She is in S.4 at Usuk Secondary School in Katakwi district.

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.

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 | Do music and homework mix? (Kansas City Star) - When her four kids were preteens, pediatrician Kathleen Clarke-Pearson of Raleigh, N.C., thought it wasn’t a good idea for them to listen to music while they were doing homework.