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Lecture focuses on parenting parents (Victoria Advocate) - Jim Comer will hold a presentation titled "Parenting Your Parents: What to Do When It's Your Turn" at 7 p.m. Tuesday in The Victoria College Auditorium.

Long-running PreSchool Family program is a lab that teaches parenting (San Jose Mercury News) - Tom Culbertson and his 2 1/2-year-old son, Owen, were deep in discussion about ``a buff'lai'' on the pages of the book ``Pie in the Sky'' when another toddler approached. ``Mattias, do you want to read with us?'' Culbertson asked.

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.

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.

British school bribes kids to behave with chocolate (Blogging Baby) - Evidently, a primary school headteacher from Scotland has been peaking into my personal bag of parenting tricks. The one I’m hesitant to even admit to… [looks around] shhh… [glances over shoulder] I bribe my kids with candy to behave . It’s not so shameful, now that Andrew Sheppard of Redcastle Furze Primary School is doing it. There was lots of fighting and bullying going on between the

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

Push to save child clinics from closure (Examiner.com.au) - The State Government has been urged to stop the shutdown of child health clinics after Health Minister David Llewellyn last week denied cutbacks to Launceston's Walker House parenting centre.

Today (Desert Sun) - Fall Baby and Family Fest, pregnancy, birth and parenting resources, exhibits and vendors, children's performances, car seat safety checks, raffle prizes, children's fun zone and more. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Fritz Burns Park, Avenida Bermudas and Avenue 52, La Quinta.