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Program to teach families health tips, parenting skills (The Flint Journal) - It's a throwback to less complicated times: parents and kids eating dinner together and watching a movie or playing a game. Connexion and Asbury Church in Flint are working on an afterschool program, beginning 6-9 p.m. Friday, to steer families to spend time together.

Mom gets one year for video of husband raping daughter, 6 (The Columbian) - A Ridgefield woman was sentenced to one year in the Clark County Jail on Thursday for what her attorney described as a “poor parenting decision.” Kristina L. Stallings, 43, found a videotape of her husband raping her 6-year-old daughter and did not report the crime to police.

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.

Pregnancy.org, LLC Wins the Silver Award in the Family and Parenting Category from the 2006 W3 Awards (Press Release Network) - The Winners of the 2006 W3 Awards have been announced (October 16, 2006) by the International Academy of the Visual Arts (IAVA). Receiving over 2,300 entries, the W3 awards honors outstanding websites, web marketing, and web advertising created by some of the best interactive agencies, designers and creators worldwide. Pregnancy.org is proud to be one of the winning entries, bringing home a

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.

PROFNET WIRE: HEALTH & LIVING: Flu Shots (RedNova) - LEADS 1. Dentistry: Halloween: Walk Away from Caramel and No One Gets Hurt 2. Health: Get That Flu Shot Now 3. Parenting: How to Simplify Life for Busy Moms LEADS 1. DENTISTRY: HALLOWEEN: WALK AWAY FROM THE CARAMEL AND NO ONE GETS HURT. DONALD R.

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.

Talk of the Town (The Milpitas Post) - Parenting skills can be handy when dealing with children masquerading as grownups.

Beech Acres has Boofest Saturday (The Cincinnati Enquirer) - Beech Acres Parenting Center's first Boofest at the Beech is 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at 6881 Beechmont Ave. in Anderson Township. Activities will include a 1 p.m. costume contest, tips for safe trick-or-treating, games, food, pumpkin decorating and face painting. The free event is open to the public. Information: 513-231-6630.

Improve parenting to reduce child obesity, conference told (CBC New Brunswick) - The number of overweight kids in Canada has tripled since the mid-1980s, and parents are a big part of the problem, a conference in Fredericton heard Wednesday.