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Shared Parenting On News & Views (KXMA-TV Dickinson) - The Shared Parenting Initiative (measure #3 on your ballots, North Dakotans) was debated on Joel Heitkamp’s News & Views radio program today.

9th-grade sports, teen-parenting centers, librarians on state-appointed overseers' list of possible targets (Philly.com) - THE PHILADELPHIA public schools' state-appointed overseers have identified as much as $90.3 million in possible budget cuts, including eliminating ninth-grade sports and two teen-parenting centers, and reducing the number of librarians and counselors in the schools.

Older moms equal in parenting skills to younger mothers (Los Angeles Daily News) - Older mothers are just as good at parenting as women who give birth at a younger age, according to a study released Monday by researchers at USC and the University of North Carolina.

Ed Schaefer Endorses Shared Parenting Initiative (KXMA-TV Dickinson) - Today former North Dakota Governor Ed Schaefer guest-hosted Scott Hennen’s Hot Talk radio show. During the show a supporter of the North Dakota Shared Parenting Initiative called in, and right after the call Gov. Schaefer stated that he does support Shared Parenting.

Incarcerated Women Receive Parenting Training: Trying to break the cycle (Tulsa World) - OKLAHOMA CITY -- When Rita Cooksey asked for volunteers for a new kind of parenting class at Oklahoma City's Hillside Community Corrections Center, she expected to bring together a few women inmates, their parents and their children.

Learn more about foster parenting and adoption (Marin Independent Journal) - The Marin County Division of Social Services will have an informational meeting on foster parenting and adoption from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday and Dec. 6 at 10 N. San Pedro Rd., Room 1018.

Parenting: Take care with little creatures out at night (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - Q: I'll have a 4-year-old ghost and a 2-year-old bunny for Halloween, and they're excited. Do you have any special advice about Halloween that you give parents?

PARENTING: Taking some sting out of shots (The Charlotte Observer) - Think preschoolers don't know geography? Drive them to the pediatrician's office. Starting around age 2, they're crying before you make the final turn into the parking lot -- they remember where they get shots.

Joy of parenting turns to fear (Centre Daily Times) - Many poems celebrate the joys of having children. Michigan poet Jeff Vande Zande reminds us that adults make mistakes, even with children they love, and that parenting is about fear as well as joy.

Pitkin couple rewarded for years of foster parenting (Leesville Leader) - PITKIN - Several years ago, Gavin and Charlene Dauzat looked across their extensive property and saw a trio of adolescents riding one of their cows, a particularly docile creature named “Granny.”