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Co-parenting is best for kids (The Ashland Daily Press) - Whether parents live together in one household or in different — divorced or separated — homes, child-rearing experts agree that co-parenting is best for children. What is co-parenting? It is an arrangement between parents that puts the child (or children) at the center of family life.

A parenting wish list for government (Pocono Record) - 1 Lower our infant mortality rate. More babies die in the U.S. during the first year of life than in any other industrialized country. 2 Lower the teen pregnancy rate. The U.S. has the highest teen pregnancy rate of all industrialized countries.

For Chinese, fat translates into bad parenting (Chicago Tribune) - China's recent announcement that it plans to restrict adoptions by foreigners who are single, older than 50 or taking antidepressants sparked controversy in this country, but at least we knew what Chinese officials were talking about.

JOHN ROSEMOND: AFFIRMATIVE PARENTING: Don't let an adoption take center stage (Contra Costa Times) - CERTAIN CHILD-REARING subjects hit huge nerves, one such subject being adoption. I opined in a recent column that it is unwise for parents to make a child's adoption a centerpiece of his or her life, to do what most adoption professionals recommend and refer to it regularly. (I am also generally opposed to "open" adoption, which I think would be more accurately termed tentative non-kinship ...

Living Well: Health and Wellness Tips (Newswise) - Living Well for January discusses the influence finances have on youth violence, the downside of helicopter parenting and ways to liven up adult social gatherings with physical activity.

Parenting: Imaginary friend can provide opportunity (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - Q: My 4-year-old daughter has an imaginary friend she calls Hanna. How should I handle this? Every time I try to tell her that Hanna isn't real, she gets upset.

Play & Learn group meets today (Tahoe Daily Tribune) - Play & Learn is a free playgroup that provides play/craft activities and healthy snacks for children, and education, networking and parenting support for their parents. This month's classes are:

Adolescent parents receive gifts, New Year's challenge (The Robesonian) - Participants in the Adolescent Parenting Program were recently treated to a heaping helping of Christmas and New Year's hospitality.

Columnist Offers Parenting Wish List (The Morning News) - As we enter a new year, with new hope, I have a short wish list for our government:

The Bookshelf: First Year of Fatherhood (Psychology Today) - On parenting, sex, madness, and the brain.