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Blogging Baby Size Six: Parenting cliches that turned out to be true (Blogging Baby) - Why is a cliché a cliché? Because it’s true. And it seems like there are no truer clichés than parenting clichés. At least for me, anyway. Here are six that are my reality everyday. Please feel free to add your own! Never having time to use the bathroom. (And privacy? What’s that?) It seems the only time I have to go to the bathroom is while my husband is strapping the kids in the car.

New MusicTALKING CD Wins Three National Parenting Awards: Company Celebrates by Offering Discount for a Limited Time (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) - MAPLEWOOD, N.J.----Nov. 28, 2005--A new music CD is now available to help parents talk to their 'tween-age' kids, defined as ages 6 - 11. The CD titled "MusicTALKING: About Goals & Values", has won three national parenting awards since being introduced in September; the "National Parenting Center 2005 Seal of Approval," the "iParenting Media Greatest Products of 2005 Award" and the "Parents'

Small World Toys Wins Awards From Three Leading Parenting Magazines (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) - Small World Toys, a wholly owned subsidiary of Small World Kids, Inc. , a leading designer, manufacturer, marketer and distributor of high-quality specialty children's products, today announced it has received national product awards from three leading parenting magazines.

People Profile - -Garner family takes pride in foster parenting (Brenham Banner-Press) - It's been almost three weeks since a tiny two-day-old boy entered the lives of Amy and Paul Garner. The North Carolina couple moved here two years ago after providing foster care to nine young children there and found little Texans equally in need of their tender loving care.

Letters to the Editor, November 29 (Rocky Mountain News) - The parents of the teenaged "victims" of the "cool mom" speak as though their parenting styles had nothing to do with their sons' downfall (" 'Cool mom' gets 30 years," Nov. 15).

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.

CHILDREN & PARENTING (The Hindu) - Child's play Four-year-old Kumari M. Namrata studying at JSS School in Mysore, who can identify National flags of more than 200 countries in just four minutes, interacting with the press in Bangalore on Monday. Her parents would like her to participate in the ...

Mergers mean survival for nonprofit agencies (The Santa Rosa Press Democrat) - There were lots of challenges to overcome when two Santa Rosa nonprofit organizations, California Parenting Institute and CARE Children's Counseling Center, merged earlier this year.

Lifetime Television Begins Production on Reality Series About a Year in the Life of a Championship High School (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) - Taking viewers inside the dizzying world of parenting teenage girls -- from rivalries, friendships, boyfriends, acne, teachers and wrong shoes, to competing for a national athletic championship -- Lifetime Television is going into production on a new reality series from the producers of "Wickedly Perfect" and "FM Nation," about the roller coaster relationship of mothers and their daughters on a

Free bilingual parenting classes offered (The Payson Roundup) - The All*Star Families Parent Enrichment Program is offering two, free parenting classes in December at the Parent Resource Center, 514 W. Wade Ln. Trina Gunzel, certified ESL/bilingual teacher, will instruct parents in both English and Spanish.