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Parents should take part in Parenting Day (Greenville Advocate) - Alabama public schools will hold a Parenting Day on Monday, Oct. 17, which offers an excellent chance for parents to get out and visit with their children's teachers.

Parenting classes offered at area churches (Newport News-Times) - Parenting classes are being offered at Atonement Lutheran Church in Newport and at the Baptist Church in Siletz. The popular series, based on Oregon Social Learning Center curriculum and taught by Anne Swinehart, begins at 5:45 p.m. to 8 p.m., Monday, Oct. 10 at Atonement Lutheran Church.

Parenting workshop held (Los Banos Enterprise) - Food, information and entertainment were all part of the second annual Parenting Workshop at Henry Miller Elementary School Saturday.

Parent power, 'teen-proofing' are topics for church seminar (The Indianapolis Star) - John Rosemond, a family psychologist, will speak during two parenting seminars Nov. 6 at Zionsville United Methodist Church, 9644 Whitestown Road. Rosemond, a nationally known speaker on parenting, will speak on "Assuming the Power of Parenthood" from 1 to 2:30 p.m.

Parenting Day slated for county schools (Greenville Advocate) - Parents, mark your calendars for Monday, Oct. 17. That's the day all Alabama public schools will hold Parenting Day. While the students of all Butler County schools will have that Monday off, it will be a busy day for staff and faculty members.

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.

Parenting dilemmas: when your kids like people you don't (Blogging Baby) - My son Everett is a loving, generous, social kid. Every day he just gets more forward, more affectionate. He sits on the front porch and yells to people passing by: “Hello! What’s your NAME?!?” Everyone that comes to our house, he loves. So, my brother-in-law’s fiancee, I don’t like her. Not at all. I’m not being prickly - I dislike her for two rather defensiblereasons: (1) she’s a terrific

Learning about their kids (Hernando Today) - BROOKSVILLE - Parenting doesn't come with instructions. That's what more than 200 parents attending the school district's parent institute Thursday night learned about.

AOL to buy group of blogs (San Jose Mercury News) - America Online agreed Thursday to buy Weblogs, the Santa Monica publisher of 85 freelance online sites about cars, movies, parenting, travel and other subjects, the latest move by the Dulles, Va., Internet service to increase the size of its audience and profit from ads.

Bad parenting moment: Baby naps in dirty diaper (Blogging Baby) - First, let me preface this by saying that I didn’t plan to put Wallie, my one-year-old, down for a nap in a poopy diaper. We spent the morning at the indoor park and as soon as we got into the door, my three-year-old was whining for lunch. Sometime between arriving home and the end of lunch Wallie crapped. I should have changed her diaper right then and there, but my mom called to finalize