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Parenting payment (Bega District News) - FEDERAL Government changes to the Parenting Payment have prompted Sertec to organise a series of seminars for people affected by the changes.

Practical Parenting secures P&G as awards sponsor (intellagencia.com) - Procter & Gamble's Fairy Non Bio laundry detergent brand is to sponsor the inaugural Practical Parenting Awards. The event, spun off from IPC SouthBank's parenting title, Practical Parenting, is designed to recognise and celebrate parents, parenting professionals and parenting products.

On Parenting: Birthdays inspire fitness snails (Hampton Roads Daily Press) - Birthdays, even more than New Year's Day, inspire resolutions - especially birthdays that have a 9 in them.

Actress aims to save lives (Miami Herald) - She can talk about lots of things -- from her varied career in show business to the joys of parenting. But this week actress Ann Jillian will share a personal story of breast-cancer survival.

Tastes like chicken: Build a better nugget (Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier) - Chicken nuggets will never be nutritional all-stars, but you can make them healthier. Try this recipe from Parenting magazine: Dip chunks of chicken breast into a bowl of one egg white, slightly beaten.

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.

Divorce and shared parenting (Stamford Advocate) - Over the last several years I've met more and more fathers who only in divorce begin to have meaningful relationships with their children. In some cases the father's emotional distance from the family led to the divorce in the first place, making it even more ironic that father-child interactions would only then improve.

Chuck E. Cheese window into parenting soul (Blogging Baby) - Is Chuck E. Cheese really one of the circles of hell - the one for “overindulgent and negligent parents”? So says columnist Andrea Rinard, who was forced via birthday party to visit the other house of mouse. She writes, “There’s nothing that is so validating as a parent than to watch other parents in action… It’s just good to know that I’m not the only one who reverts to mothering

Parenting evening (Limerick Post) - CHILDLINE and the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (ISPCC) is holding a parenting evening on the issues of bullying, mobile phone and Internet safety and drugs and alcohol in Limerick.

Youth Bureau Offers 'Assertive Discipline' Parenting Class (Oswego Daily News) - OSWEGO, NY - Parents and caregivers can learn how to be more assertive when managing children's behavior at a 2-hour workshop Monday, Oct. 17. The class is free and is sponsored by the Oswego City-County Youth Bureau.