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The American Parenting Market is Lucrative with 73.2 Million Households with Children under 18 (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) - DUBLIN, Ireland----Nov. 29, 2005--Research and Markets has announced the addition of American Parenting Styles - in the United States to their offering.

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.

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.

'Yours, Mine & Ours' (The Village Voice) - After counseling one son from beyond the grave and rescuing another from a new Ice Age, Dennis Quaid should have nothing left to prove in the cinematic parenting department. Yet here he is in a remake of Yours, Mine & Ours , in charge of a . . . read more (By Matt Singer)

TV viewers tuning out government control (CNET) - As Senate preps for forum on racy programming, study finds that Americans want Big Brother to butt out of parenting.

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).

New Housing Helps Bridge Generation Gap (Washington Post) - NEW YORK If it were not for that missing link in Dorothy Jenkins's family story, she might not have ended up in this funky blue apartment building in the Bronx for grandparents like her.