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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.

PARENTING: Time, not punishment, will cure bed-wetting (Miami Herald) - Q: Our 3-year-old son has been day and night potty-trained for nearly a year. Several months ago, just after starting preschool, he wet the bed a couple of times. A friend 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 then he started

Advice by Marilyn Heins, M.D.: Parenting: Enforce agreed-upon rules (Arizona Daily Star) - Q: I am a 32-year-old mother and I have two great kids. My oldest is almost 11. She has a very hard time dealing with the word "no."

CHILDREN & PARENTING (The Hindu) - The fun way to learn This creative initiative from Namibia uses the appeal of comics to teach children and teachers the basics of computer usage. More

Landlords in line to enforce good parenting (InsideHousing) - The government this week unveiled its plans to hand councils and housing associations the powers to draw up parenting orders.

Teen pregnancy program gets $7,700 in donations (The Record-Courier) - Thanks to donations from two service groups, the young residents of China Spring Youth Camp and Aurora Pines will get hands-on parenting experience.

Parenting by John Rosemond (Duluth News Tribune) - Sibling abuse calls for immediate punishment

Don't shift start times for sleepy high schoolers (USA Today) - Don't shift start times for sleepy high schoolers

Going Places (The Times of Northwest Indiana) - A Systematic Training for Effective Parenting class for parents with teens meets from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursdays, Jan. 26 through march 16, at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 8955 Columbia Ave. Karen Enochs and Jim Dixon will lead the course.

Foster, adoptive parents in great demand 01-29-2006 (Plainview Daily Herald) - Child Protective Services is calling on interested parents across the area to attend an informational meeting about foster and adoptive parenting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 14, at the CPS offices at 47 Briercroft Office Park, 51 and Avenue F in Lubbock.