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Group to present parenting workshop (NorthJersey.com) - BERGENFIELD -- The Partnership for Caring, a program of Vantage Health System, will hold a two-part parenting workshop about communication.

Letter To The Fargo Forum From A Shared Parenting Supporter (KXMA-TV Dickinson) - Fellow Shared Parenting supporter Eric Lanum was kind enough to share with me this letter to the editor he’s sent to the Fargo Forum . I’m not sure if the Forum will print it or not, but I thought it was good enough to be published here on Say Anything.

PARENTING | Roll with toddler’s obsessive tendencies (Kansas City Star) - Q. My 2 1/2 -year-old sometimes becomes obsessed with certain objects or activities. If I try to distract or redirect him, he begins to get agitated. If I put him in time-out, he’ll calm down but usually starts right back up when his time is up. Is this sort of obsessive behavior normal at this age, or is it something that needs to be addressed?

Action Line: A morsel of parenting advice, plus usual tips (San Jose Mercury News) - Q I have to comment on your column where a mother wrote in concerning her two sons who have lost their birth certificates and Social Security cards due to carelessness (Action Line, Oct. 23).

Shared Parenting “Information Session” At UND A Farce (KXMA-TV Dickinson) - We’d been told that former ND Supreme Court Justice and current Executive Director of the ND Bar Association Bill Neuman would be there. Given that the ND Bar Association has been actively opposing our measure, even going so far as to donate $16,748.00 to the group putting up those “Where Will I Sleep Tonight” ads and billboards in the state , we thought it would be a good time to engage the

Inmates learn to be better parents (The Daily Item) - SUNBURY — Keira Bainbridge didn't expect parenting classes would be a part of her life as a Northumberland County Prison inmate.

Parents: Your kids are watching, so be a healthy role model (The Wichita Eagle) - With one in five of America's children classified as overweight, experts in the fields of nutrition, medicine, exercise science and parenting are joining forces to figure out what to do to solve the problem of "couch potato kids."

Couple lend time, work to kids' school (Dayton Daily News) - "We feel that taking an active part in our children's school is what parenting is all about," said Julie Boden, mother of Sam Boden, a first-grader at Orchard Park Elementary School, 600 E. Dorothy Lane.

Ridgefield woman gets a year in jail for 'poor parenting decision' (The Daily News) - VANCOUVER, Wash. -- A Ridgefield woman has been sentenced to a year in the Clark County Jail for what her attorney described as a "poor parenting decision" -- failing to turn over to police a videotape she found of her husband raping her 6-year-old daughter.

Opponents of child custody measure say it'll harm families, kids... (KXMA-TV Dickinson) - Bismarck , N.D. (AP) People on both sides of a North Dakota child custody ballot measure are arguing today about whether it's a good idea. Critics of the measure held news conferences today in Bismarck and Moorhead, Minnesota , to talk about Measure Three ( Shared Parenting Initiative).