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Parenting center under review (Columbus Ledger-Enquirer) - Pregnant students would no longer be required to attend the Teenage Parenting Center, under a proposal recommended by Muscogee County School District Superintendent John Phillips Jr. The proposal will be considered by the school board at its meeting next Monday.

Can you be a good parent and raise a happy child if you dislike parenting? (Blogging Baby) - Recently, on a parenting forum I frequent, a mom I admire tremendously asked the above question. She was coming off three days of solo-parenting and had time to reflect on the question once she was back at work, with her child at day care. She noticed she felt “depressed” and “lonely” taking care of her son while her husband was out of town even though she filled the time with activities and

Author exposes 'golden age' of parenting advice (Rocky Mountain News) - NEW YORK - Those who recall the first half of the 20th century as the golden era of parenting seem to have a selective memory. They remember well-scrubbed children in cardigans and Keds, kids who'd come home from school to find Mom waiting in the kitchen with fresh-baked cookies.

College Parenting 101 (Sun-Sentinel) - How much is too much? Some advice from Helen E. Johnson, co-author of Don't Tell Me What to Do, Just Send Money: The Essential Parenting Guide to the College Years (St. Martin's Press):

Dorothy Law Nolte -- author of famous parenting poem (San Francisco Chronicle) - Dorothy Law Nolte, whose poem crafted on deadline for a Torrance (Los Angeles County) newspaper in 1954 became -- without her knowledge -- a child-rearing anthem that parents posted on refrigerators around the world, has died. She was 81. Mrs. Nolte, a...

Button-pushing children make parenting difficult (Northwest Herald) - Question: Are children really that calculating about their misbehavior? If so, I've not understood them at all. Dr. Dobson: Some are, some aren't. We're talking here about the child who is driven to be his own boss – to take orders from no one.

Parents should follow own instincts (AberdeenNews.com) - Though I didn't realize it until I became a parent myself, every single aspect of parenting seems to be a highly volatile issue among anyone who has had the fortune to raise children, particularly the women-folk.

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.

Dorothy Law Nolte -- author of famous parenting poem (San Francisco Chronicle) - Dorothy Law Nolte, whose poem crafted on deadline for a Torrance (Los Angeles County) newspaper in 1954 became -- without her knowledge -- a child-rearing anthem that parents posted on refrigerators around the world, has died. She was 81.

CHILDREN & PARENTING (The Hindu) - Oh what a joy! Schoolchildren from a municipal school in Mumbai at a cricket tournament organised exclusively for under privileged children on the occasion of Children's Day on ...