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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.

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.

REVIEW: The unfunny side of parenting (AP via Yahoo! News) - Comedy is hard. Absurdist comedy is even harder. And frantic absurdist comedy is practically impossible.

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.

It's Time!: 'Birth and After Birth' Opens at Atlantic Theatre Company (Playbill via Yahoo! News) - Atlantic Theater Company's New York premiere of Tina Howe's Birth and After Birth, a play about parenting, open Oct. 3, after performances from Sept. 13, with Peter Benson, Jeff Binder, Kate Blumberg, Jordan Gelber and Maggie Kiley in the cast.

Parenting: Separation anxiety's a common phase, but tips may help (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - Q: My 15-month-old daughter has become extremely attached to me -- she refuses to stay with a baby sitter, and at a family get-together she was afraid to be held by anyone but our immediate family.

REVIEW: the Unfunny Side of Parenting (AP via Yahoo! Asia News) - Comedy is hard.

Parenting the second time around (Louisville Courier-Journal) - Many grandparents in their 60s are retiring and settling into a life of rest and relaxation, but others are facing parenthood a second time — by raising their grandchildren. According to the 2000 U.S. Census, more than 57,000 grandchildren live with their grandparents in Kentucky. About 150 of those grandparents and their grandchildren gathered at the Louisville Zoo on Saturday.

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."