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Class offers parenting tips for dads (WBBH) - LEE COUNTY — Compassion, understanding, love and discipline are all qualities of a loving father, but for many men parenting doesn't come easily. A new class called Dad's Tool Time is designed to give men the skills they need for parenting.

Best Parenting Blog: Weblogs Awards voting ends today (Blogging Baby) - Just a friendly reminder from your friendly neighborhood parenting blog that voting in the Weblogs Awards ends tonight at midnight. Blogging Baby is honored to be one of the nominees in the Parenting category, along with some other truly magnificent reads. Not that we have any hope of beating Dooce , mind you - but hey, if we can surpass that Suburban Bliss chick, we’ll be happy.

Attachment Parenting Dads (BellaOnline) - One of the wonderful things about AP is how participatory fathers can be in the parenting process. Really, about the only thing they cannot do is breastfeed, but dads can be a part of the breastfeeding experience too!

Adventures in Parenting: Winter Break - 18 days of Nolan (Blogging Baby) - Winter break at Nolan’s preschool starts next week. It will last a full 18 days. EIGHTEEN DAYS. That’s 432 HOURS of Nolan, non stop. Don’t get me wrong, I love my little guy. I just haven’t been at home with him for two-and-a-half straight weeks since he was a tiny, non-sassy baby. He’s been going to preschool five days a week since September, and before that he was in daycare twice a

Woman's tips on parenting contained in book (Villages Daily Sun) - SUMMERFIELD - They grow up so fast. One minute, your child is a newborn, and the next he is 17 and thinks he knows it all. Yet, what junior really knows is based on how his parents raised him.

PARENTING (Columbia Daily Tribune) - By JOHN ROSEMOND A father recently told me that one reason his 10-year-old son was active in a different sport every season was that “he needs to learn how to be a team player.”

KATRINA'S LIVES LOST: The life stories behind the storm victims (New Orleans Times-Picayune) - Single parenting was a particularly difficult life for a woman in the 1950s, when divorce still carried a social stigma and employment opportunities were anything but equal.

Preventative parenting (Texarkana Gazette) - A lot of what ails this world can be traced to bad parenting or absentee parenting. Maybe this is obvious to most.

Responsible parents, kids, get cars for holidays (News 8 Austin) - The Responsible Parenting initiative awards cars to responsible children and their parents.

Parenting expert to address moms (The Acorn) - Conejo Valley Mothers of Multiples (CVMOM) will hear from guest speaker Sandy McDaniel, the