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Fairfax Digital acquires parenting website (Sydney Morning Herald) - Online news provider Fairfax Digital is continuing its online expansion, acquiring parenting web site Essential Baby, for a reported $4 million.

Fairfax Digital buys parenting website (AAP via Yahoo!7 Finance) - Online news provider Fairfax Digital is continuing its online expansion, acquiring Essential Baby, an internet site on Australian women, family and parenting.

Single parenting classes planned (Coshocton Tribune) - COSHOCTON — Single parenting classes will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. Sundays, at Coshocton Baptist Church, 1631 Denman Ave. An organizational meeting at 1 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 28, will start the courses off. The first class will then be held Sunday, Feb. 4.

Parenting can be fun, facilitator observes (Marshall Democrat-News) - Parenting not only can be fun but should be fun -- and when it is, it's better for parents and children alike. That idea is at the heart of the "Love and Logic" approach to parenting that Nancy Kleinschmidt advocates.

Should Spanking Be Banned? (Time Magazine) - Need a lesson in parenting? If you live in California, you may have to take one from the government whether you like it or not. Next week, Assemblywoman Sally Lieber will introduce a bill banning the practice of spanking children younger than four.

Fairfax Digital acquires parenting website (Stuff) - The site has a current membership of about 100,000 which Fairfax says makes it one of the largest online women's communities in Australia.

Editorial: Poor parenting affects, aggravates community (The Daily Gamecock) - When 3-year-old Elly Kulesza refused to put on her seat belt and sit down after boarding an airplane, a flight attendant made a wise decision to ask the family to leave the aircraft.

Bonnier Magazine Group Expected to Win Time4 Auction (Mediaweek) - Sweden's Bonnier Magazine Group is expected to win the auction for Time Inc.'s Time4 Media group and parenting magazines. Time Warner is scheduled to hold a board meeting tomorrow where it might approve the sale. There was no word on a price.

KVCAP sponsors free parenting class (Capital Weekly) - SKOWHEGAN — Kennebec Valley Community Action Program is sponsoring a free workshop and discussion for parents of young children from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 31 at Messalonskee High School in Oakland.

Parenting class offered at Methodist Church (Eastern Arizona Courier) - A parent’s greatest desire is to raise a child who can face anything with wisdom and confidence. But in a world of overextended schedules, amoral messages and incessant peer pressure, how can parents raise a confident child that follows God’s will, not the world’s?