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Taking the madness out of parenting (Pretoria News) - Belfast - Once it was considered good enough if your child reached 21 without too many major catastrophes, but modern parenting is a whole new ball game.

Strike a balance in your parenting (Pretoria News) - There are times when we revel in the fashioning and forging involved in parenting and others when we feel totally overwhelmed by the frustration and failure dogging us as parents.

LESSONS IN PARENTING (Bangkok Post) - Brains alone aren't enough to guarantee you a place at the popular Mathayom Thanbin Kamphaeng Saen school. Here it's not just the children who have to take exams, the mothers and fathers of students seeking admission are also tested.

U of Minnesota researcher finds materialism in children and adolescents linked to self-esteem (EurekAlert!) - MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL ( 11/20/2007 ) -- Peer pressure, targeted marketing campaigns and bad parenting have all been blamed for increasing materialism in children. Until now, there has been little evidence showing when this drive for material goods emerges in kids and what really causes it.

Council joins global celebration on activism vs gender violence (Sun Star) - THE Provincial Council for Women in Negros Occidental will kick-off the celebration of the 18 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Monday with a Forum on Parenting and Family Relationship at the Bascon Hotel in Bacolod City.

Parenting by Marilyn Heins : Introduce son to his dad gradually (Arizona Daily Star) - Q My son is 5 years old and has never seen his father, because he disappeared from our lives a long time ago, when my son was only 3 months old. My son never asked about his father until now. He calls my father "papa."

GUERILLA MOTHERING: A year of biblical parenting? Spank you very much (The Evening News and the Tribune) - Author A.J. Jacobs stoned an adulterer last year. He had to. He was attempting to live 100 percent perfectly according to God’s Holy Word, for his book “The Year of Living Biblically.”

New parenting education available (Squamish Chief) - Communities That Care (CTC) announced this week that Parenting Wisely will soon be available for parents of 11 to 18 year-olds. The curriculum, which uses video game technology, is suitable for parents and any other caregivers hoping to develop more effective parenting skills.

WEB EXTRAS (The Hindu) - CHILDREN & PARENTING Child as ‘learning capital’ All that Malavika Kapur remembers about her childhood is that she played and drew pictures or simply did nothing except wander around in the forest land that surrounded her home, observing the trees, birds and small animals, most of the time till ...

No pressure: How to turn 'yuck' into 'yum' (Inside Bay Area) - GETTING good food into children has been an age-old parenting problem.