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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.

JOHN ROSEMOND PARENTING: Don't cater to anxiety over the evening meal (The Myrtle Beach Sun News) - Question | My 8-year-old daughter recently had what we think was 24-hour stomach virus. Ever since, she has been obsessed that what she eats may make her sick. Every night, she is concerned that she will become sick again and breaks down in tears.

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

Instincts only get you so far (North Shore News) - One of the myths of parenting is that it's instinctive, that parents can simply figure it out as they go along. Nothing is further from the truth. Our children rely on us as parents to raise, nurture, train, guide and educate them, and it's a tall order.

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.

Parenting: (Long Beach Press-Telegram) - Children experience physical, emotional changes earlier, experts say. Zach Plante is close with his parents - he plays baseball with them and, on weekends, helps with work in the small vineyard they keep at their northern California home.

District 203 briefs (The Naperville Sun) - District offers tips on parenting gifted kids

With Adoptions, Family Duties Multiply (New York Times) - Despite their own hardships, one couple opened their home without hesitation to nieces and nephews who landed in foster care.

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.”

Career & Education (The Jamaica Observer) - MORE than 130 parents from Clarendon and St Catherine have been recognised by the Ministry of Education and Youth for outstanding parenting values.