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'Strong parenting is key' (Jamaica Gleaner) - AT A time when youth from Jamaica's inner city are stigmatised as gangsters and non-achievers, 18-year-old Andrew Love says he knew from early on the importance of taking a straight and narrow course. Andrew, who is second school vice-captain at Jamaica College (JC)...

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...

When sex stops (Orange County Register) - Turn-ons: Long walks on the beach, confident guys, Clive Owen movies. Turn-offs: Dirty diapers. Pokemon. Nickelodeon. That's the word from a survey published in this month's Parenting Magazine. About 1,300 parents were polled, and 78 percent said sex was better before the couple had children.

'Parents don’t understand risks posed by internet’ (Times Online) - Children cannot be protected from risk but parents must be educated in the dangers posed by the internet, the Government’s parenting guru has said.

Genes, parenting linked to teen depression (UPI) - U.S. researchers are using a new design that allows them to test the interaction of genetic and environmental liabilities concerning depression.

Duncanville/Cedar Hill briefs (Dallas Morning News) - The Cedar Hill school district will host a parenting class with Chanda McGee, the district psychologist, from 7 to 8 tonight at the high school. Ms. McGee focuses on promoting self-esteem, parenting and behavioral self-control. For information, visit www.chisd.com.

On Parenting: Getting a Doctor to Face Behavioral Concerns (US News & World Report) - Pediatricians may not look after kids' mental health—unless parents lend a hand.

Sales of The Total Transformation Program Surpass 100,000 Mark (Centre Daily Times) - Legacy Parenting Company, a premier producer and publisher of personal development products for families, has announced it has reached the 100,000 programs sold landmark of its foremost product, The Total Transformation Program. The Total Transformation Program is a step-by-step multimedia program created by noted behavioral therapist James Lehman to help parents manage challenging behaviors in ...

Here's one Packers fan who needs a lesson in parenting (Pioneer Press) - PORTAGE, Wis. - What would Favre do? Probably not this: When a 36-year-old Wisconsin man's son wouldn't don a Green Bay Packers jersey to watch

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 ...