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Making sense of overprotective parenting (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) - Although everyone is aware that overprotective parenting is not a good thing and that children need to experience their own lives, do you know where parents with the best intentions most often go wrong?

Youth Bureau Sponsors Free Parenting Class in February (Oswego Daily News) - OSWEGO, NY — The Oswego City-County Youth Bureau is offering a free parenting class on how to use "time-out" as an effective discipline technique.

Parenting Place finds a place to call home (Missoulian) - After 25 years, the Parenting Place finally has a home of its own. "We used to be located in so many backrooms," said Teresa Cowan, executive director of the nonprofit agency.

Kidman's former nanny slams her parenting skills (New Kerala) - New York: Nanny Suzanne Hansen has slammed Nicole Kidman's parenting skills in a new book. Hollywood.com reports, Hansen claims she never saw Kidman around her adopted kids and that she played only a small part in raising her children. She said: "I never saw her with her children."

JOHN ROSEMOND: AFFIRMATIVE PARENTING: Punishment will surely aggravate bed-wetting (Contra Costa Times) - Q: Our 3-year-old son has been day and night potty trained for nearly a year. Several months ago, just after starting pre-school, he wet the bed a couple of times. A friend with older children advised us to spank, and one spanking stopped it. Then, however, he started to wake us up in the middle of the night saying he needed to use the potty. I told him to stop waking us up, and he stopped, but

Parenting with 4 Kids: Daughter getting inconsistent messages (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - Q. I share custody of my 4-year-old daughter with my ex-husband and every time she comes back from a weekend visit, she's a mess. He lets her stay up as late as she wants and eat candy instead of meals. It takes days to get her back to normal, but he says she's fine and he won't change anything.

Schools wrongly persist in rewarding good behavior (Bradenton Herald) - John Rosemond Parenting Our son's new first-grade teacher gives children smiley faces for behaving properly. At the end of the week, they trade them in for prizes. On the other hand, nothing of any real consequence happens when a child misbehaves. At home, when our son misbehaves, we punish. We are concerned that the difference between our approach and the teacher's may cause our son confusion.

Madonna accepts Jovi's apology (Irish Examiner) - Madonna has accepted Jon Bon Jovi's apology for criticising her parenting skills, but is still waiting for Elton John to apologise for his regular attacks on her.

Local News (The Daily Iberian) - The Iberia Parish Louisiana 4 committee recently conducted its first of four parenting skills workshops at Grand Marais Elementary.

Coastal Notes (Newport News-Times) - "Love and Logic" parenting classes begin today (Wednesday) at Oceanlake Elementary School in Lincoln City. Day classes are offered from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Night classes are from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., with dinner at 5:30 p.m., and the class begins at 6 p.m. Childcare is provided for the evening classes only.