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Mom Jailed After Son Missed 71 Of 100 School Days Defends Parenting (WKMG Local6.com via Yahoo! News) - A mother in Marion County, Fla., jailed after her son missed 71 out of 100 school days he was enrolled calls her punishment ridiculous and defended her parenting during a jailhouse interview with Local 6 News.

Fremont offering two parenting workshops starting this week (The Argus) - The city of Fremont's Youth and Family Services department is offering parenting classes starting this week.

Parenting courses (The Myrtle Beach Sun News) - Parenting Anonymous, headed by executive director Evelyn Califf, offers free parenting classes and low-cost counseling and anger management courses for adults and teenagers.

Ontario police offer parenting class (Daily Bulletin) - ONTARIO - Starting in October, the Ontario Police Department will offer a seven-week parenting class on Wednesday nights titled "Loving Solutions."

Charleston councilman says sterilization a fix for bad parenting (WIS News 10 Columbia) - (Charleston-AP) September 30, 2006 - A Charleston City Council member says parents who can't properly care for their children should be sterilized. Councilman Larry Shirley says mothers who cannot take care of their children should be treated like stray animals and spayed.

PARENTING | Cook up some family fun (Kansas City Star) - Hitting shelves this fall are six cookbooks full of child-friendly, but not cutesy, recipes. •Emeril’s There’s a Chef in My World! The third kids’ cookbook from this Food Network star serves up international dishes.

Parenting and working: pressure-filled combo (BizJournals) - Motherhood started an exciting new chapter in the life of Sharon Schwartz, a Buffalo attorney who can't get enough of her 6-month-old daughter.

So the Torah Is a Parenting Guide? (New York Times) - Enough with the overparenting. Wendy Mogel is a child psychologist who says that the key to properly raised kids is Jewish law. And Jews aren?t the only ones listening.

Charleston councilman says sterilization a fix for bad parenting (The Times and Democrat) - CHARLESTON, S.C. - A City Council member says parents who can't properly care for their children should be sterilized. "We pick up stray animals and spay them," Councilman Larry Shirley said. "These mothers need to be spayed if they can't take care of theirs.

Group talks parenting -- pagan style (The Flint Journal) - The three witches gathered around a table in a corner of Capitol Coney Island in Flint. They talked about their babies' strange teething habits, a joke a daughter made the night before - and about how to raise their kids as pagans in a decidedly non-pagan world.