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Practical Parenting to sponsor Baby Channel show (intellagencia.com) - IPC SouthBank's Practical Parenting magazine is to sponsor the Baby Channel programme Pregnancy & Birth. The hour-long show airs twice a day at 10am and 4pm and features advice from obstetricians and midwives as well as practical tips from new mothers.

DRESSED TO CHILL (New York Post's PageSix via Yahoo! News) - NOTHING says "hands-on parenting" like a Halloween disguise you've made yourself. And you don't have to be Martha Stewart to manage it.

Thriving in the zone: Geoffrey Canada (US News & World Report) - The Harlem Children's Zone, which serves 8,600 low-income children on 60 New York City blocks, isn't doing much new: It has smart-parenting classes; it has all-day preschool; it's phasing in a K-12 charter school. It has tutoring and mentoring and antiviolence initiatives.

Parenting a Part-Time Job for Most Saudis (MENAFN) - Parenting a Part-Time Job for Most Saudis

Parenting a Part-Time Job for Most Saudis (Arab News) - RIYADH, 21 October 2005 — A survey of 300 schoolchildren from three different government and private schools shows that parenting has been reduced to a part-time job for a majority of Saudis.

This much I know (The Observer) - I had good parenting. My earliest memory is just of total happiness. My parents were unbelievable, they struggled almost all their lives to bring up six of us.

Madonna also says Kaballah inspired her to write children's books (Blogging Baby) - Madonna’s quite chatty these lately. First with her thoughts on television for kids and then potty training . She’s eased off the superior parenting advice and says she began writing her children’s books because of Kaballah and how it molded her into a kinder and more generous person. The English Roses was the first in her series of popular children’s books . She says it feels

Local athletes examples of good parenting (Selma Times-Journal) - I really enjoyed the article on former Selma High School football player, Donald Steele. Every so often, a kid comes through the school system with the total package.

Mommy, My Teacher Is Mean (CBS News) - If you are worried that your child may have a bad teacher, Parenting magazine Senior Editor Josh Lerman offers some advice: Get your facts straight, don't be confrontational, and enlist the school's help.

Final Score Far From Goal Of Soccer Moms' League (Washington Post) - Kay Briscoe was desperate to get rid of the musty odor that clung to the seats and carpet of her minivan from years of shuttling two daughters to soccer practice and games. She tried vinegar, spray deodorizer and those little cardboard pine trees.