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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.

PHOTO CALL: Birth Is Born (Playbill) - Atlantic Theater Company's New York premiere of Tina Howe's Birth and After Birth, a play about parenting, opened Oct. 3, after previews from Sept. 13, with Peter Benson, Jeff Binder, Kate Blumberg, Jordan Gelber and Maggie Kiley in the cast.

U.S. Olympic Gold Medalist and New Mom Summer Sanders Becomes First Member of Innovative New Parenting Network, the (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) - Strong moms raise strong babies.

INDUSTRY & ECONOMY (The Hindu) - CHILDREN & PARENTING Child development UNICEF EFFORT: Mr Michel Saint Lot, State Representative, Unicef, Mr Cecilio Adorna, Country Representative, Unicef India, and Ms Ranjini Srikumar, Principal Secretary, Dept of Women and Child Development of Karnataka, at the Karnataka State ...

Support for abortion law reform (Tobago News) - On a daily basis we interface with women who bring to us the realities that they face as they cope with the challenges of sustenance, employment, motherhood, parenting and basic sexual and reproductive health.

JOHN ROSEMOND: AFFIRMATIVE PARENTING: Withdraw from diaper derby (Contra Costa Times) - KNOWING THAT I recommend toilet training between 18 and 24 months, and apparently feeling a tad contrary, a reader recently shared with me the positive experience she had toilet training her son when he was 3 years, 3 months. She writes that she didn't want the hassles, and especially the accidents, involved in training a younger child, so she decided to wait until he was 100 percent ready. At 3

'I can still cause trouble' (USA Today) - A sign over the doorbell of Jack Nicholson's home asks visitors: Please, don't ring before 10 a.m. Nicholson is a bit sheepish about the reason. "It ain't 'cause I'm partying every night, I'll tell you that," he says, padding down the stairs of his split-level ranch house as he tucks a blue Izod polo shirt into his khakis.

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.

Generations shape parenting and vice versa (Asbury Park Press) - When the 300 millionth resident of the United States appears this month, that person's life will be shaped, in part, by whether Mom and Dad are baby boomers, Gen-Xers or millennials, experts say.