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Sharon Osborne attacks Madonna's parenting (Blogging Baby) - Sharon Osbourne is the next celebrity parent, (Jon Bon Jovi chimed in last week) to be annoyed with Madonna’s lofty parenting ideals. You’ll forgive me if I find it laughable that Sharon Osbourne is up in arms over Madonna’s decision to seriously limit her kids television exposure. It’s true I think there are a million ‘right’ ways to be a parent, but the Osbourne’s are not exactly the

Shared parenting better for children (Montgomery Advertiser) - Hopefully, the next legislative session will make true shared parenting a reality. Current policy relative to custody of children after divorce constitutes "winner take all" and de facto state sponsored kidnapping.

Author to discuss parenting strategies (Lansdale Reporter) - Award-winning author and educational consultant Michele Borba will be speaking on parenting strategies at the North Penn High School at 7 p.m. tonight.

Study: Key holes appear in books giving parents advice about raising adolescent (RedNova) - CHAPEL HILL -- Books offering advice to parents about teens are less likely to contain injury prevention messages than those that give advice on parenting smaller children, according to a new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study.

OSBOURNE SLAMS MADONNA'S PARENTING (ContactMusic) - Rock matriarch SHARON OSBOURNE has slammed MADONNA for refusing to allow her children to watch TV - and has branded the pop superstar's children's books "silly".

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.

Expo tames parenting woes By Phyllis Coulter (Pantagraph) - NORMAL -- The phew-I'm-not-the-only-one-factor was powerful at the Parentexpo on Saturday. "It's wonderful to know that other parents have the same problems. You are not alone," said Anne McDowell, a pre-kindergarten family coordinator for Unit 5.

Community News In Brief (Dewsbury Today) - DEWSBURY worshippers were the attentive audience at a lecture given by the former Archbishop of Cant... A DEWSBURY woman has been named midwife of the year award in Practical Parenting magazine....

Parenting made easy: blood sugar's for mom and dad too! (Blogging Baby) - At some point in your life as a parent, some pediatrician or preschool teacher or parenting role model will clue you in to the connection between blood sugar and mood, ergo: if your child doesn’t eat regularly (whether it’s because you forgot the snacks or because she’s too busy hoarding her toys from the other kids at playgroup to eat them), behavior plummets. I’ve learned this rather slowly,

Welfare-to-work rules to be eased (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) - The Federal Government is looking at making further changes to its welfare-to-work package. Single parents will now be allowed to remain on the higher parenting payment until their youngest child turns eight - an extension of two years on the previous plans.