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Matthew Taylor says we should teach children parenting skills (Guardian Unlimited) - Let's teach children about parenting, says Matthew Taylor.

Class lets male inmates share parenting worries (Green Bay Press-Gazette) - Lorena Tec Cob went through the usual procedure to prepare to teach her parenting course to male inmates at the Brown County Jail and Juvenile Detention Center.

Asbo tsar calls for councils to enforce parenting courses (Guardian Unlimited) - Britain's 'Asbo tsar' plans to give councils powers to force compulsory parenting courses on parents of problem children.

Asbo tsar calls for councils to enforce parenting courses (Guardian Unlimited) - Britain's 'Asbo tsar' plans to give councils powers to force compulsory parenting courses on parents of problem children. Ordering parents to attend such courses is currently available only by recourse to the courts.

Anger and parenting (Ashland Daily Tidings) - I remember watching my friend Dori change her son's diaper one day and being perplexed by her anger. She had twin toddlers and I had only one easy-going baby. Dori looked at her son, who did a poop right after she had just changed him, and cried, "Why did you have to do that?"

Competition drives UK's pushy parents to extremes (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - Britain's middle classes are in the grip of a new madness, says author Meg Sanders -- parenting madness.

Awareness Campaign to Address Parenting Worries (Arab News) - JEDDAH, 7 November 2006 — An awareness campaign to teach parents how to treat their children is set to begin today at the Ismail Abu Dawood Hall located in the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI).

UK parenting madness reaches new heights (Independent Online) - Desperate to excel in every field, normally sensible, well-educated parents are resorting to increasingly insane measures to outdo other families and give their offspring the edge. Kate Kelland reports.

Election Day 2006 (KXMA-TV Dickinson) - I think the arguments against measure #3 fall into a few main categories. Several arguments take the form of “Shared parenting will harm the children”. Statistics seem to indicate otherwise. For a list of studies, see http://ndspi.org/index.php/site/blog.

New committee to offer seminars on parenting skills (Town Online) - A joint collaboration involving members of the clergy and professional educators of Sharon have designed a new committee that will provide parenting skills seminars to the public.