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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.

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.

Attacks on sibling need to stop right away Parenting John Rosemond (Times Leader) - Q: MY 4-YEAR-OLD is very aggressive toward his 30-month-old brother. I don’t think he’s completely to blame for their conflicts, but when he gets mad he sometimes lashes out with a punch or a kick.

Home help (Guardian Unlimited) - Parenting workshops can help to make the transition to adolescence smoother for all involved, says Camilla Douglas.

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."

Wyoming -- Tuesday, Jan. 24 (Casper Star-Tribune) - Coming Up Parenting skills * The Wyoming Children's Access Network provides parent-education seminars for divorcing, separated and never-married parents. The one-time 4-hour seminar is offered monthly in Casper, Cheyenne, Cody, Gillette, Jackson, Lander, Laramie, Rawlins, Rock Springs, Sheridan and Torrington. The seminar provides information on the impact of parental conflict on children and

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

Straight Answers (The Times of India) - Rubi Chakravati, Actor on celebrity parenting.

'Big Momma's House 2' all fat, no substance (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - If state-of-the-art cross-gender fat suits and drunken Chihuahuas were the stuff of comic genius, "Big Momma's House 2" still wouldn't be very funny. But as few and far between as the laughs are, this follow-up to the 2000 comedy -- painted in the same broad, no-thinking-required strokes -- is likely to score the same solid business.