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Shift parenting 'hurts families' (Guardian Unlimited) - It is a lifestyle many busy couples will recognise: 'shift parenting', where children are passed between parents like a baton in a relay race, rarely spending time all together.

Shift parenting 'hurts families' (Guardian Unlimited) - Society: A phenomenon familiar to dual-income couples is eroding family life, Harriet Harman will claim today.

Calls for changes to co-parenting laws (News Interactive) - A HARROWING account of a woman's struggle to escape her abusive husband has sparked calls from NSW Premier Morris Iemma for changes to co-parenting laws for separated parents.

By Graham Hookey Column – Parenting (Maple Ridge News) - I overheard two parents speaking in a hallway the other day. One was bemoaning the rebellious attitude of her daughter and the difficulty she and her husband were having getting their daughter to agree with them on anything. The other simply shook her head and said, “You haven’t seen anything yet.”

John Rosemond, Parenting: Old virus causes `petite neurosis' (Miami Herald) - John Rosemond balance1020@aol.com Q: My 8-year-old daughter recently had a 24-hour stomach virus and has become obsessed that what she eats may make her sick. Every night, for two months, she is concerned that she will become sick again and breaks down in tears.

PARENTING | Is it dangerous when children snore? (Kansas City Star) - Is snoring a sign of sleep apnea? The truth: only rarely. Most kids snore sometimes, and usually it means nothing. The culprit is often a simple cold, when mucus and swollen glands can block the airways.

Parenting: Dad's overseas absence calls for compassion (The Sacramento Bee) - Q: I have an 8-year-old daughter who is an only child. My husband is in the military and left recently for duty in the Middle East. We are still adjusting to his absence.

Day of the dad: parenting academy (Daily Telegraph) - Tom Leonard considers just how much beneficial slacking he could achieve at 'parenting academy'.

RELIGION Digest (Worcester Telegram & Gazette) - WORCESTER - The Family Forum program at Belmont Baptist Church, 25 Belmont St., continues with sessions at 7 p.m. Nov. 29, Dec. 6, and Dec. 13. The program, which is free, features special speakers and professionals who can help individuals with a host of parenting issues. For information, contact the Rev. George A. Kohl at (508) 753-0312.

If There?s Dancing on the Keyboard, Park Slope May Not Be Thrilled (New York Times) - The appeal of its giant teddy bear is hard to deny, as the millions of people who have strolled wide-eyed through the F. A. O. Schwarz toy store on Fifth Avenue since 1931 know well. But the bear, along with the elaborate Lego sculptures, and the indelible image of Tom Hanks in the movie ?Big? dancing on a giant keyboard in the store, is no match for homegrown charm, at least according to some