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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.

By Graham Hookey Column – Parenting Dear Santa: (Maple Ridge News) - I used to have to close my eyes and imagine your face, or look at a picture to recall your features. But as I age, I simply have to look in the mirror and a somewhat thinner, somewhat less bearded but almost as white-haired version of you appears.

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.

These family games will challenge and provide fun for parents, grandparents and kids (Seattle Times) - One of the great joys in parenting comes when kids move beyond Candy Land and progress to games that require parents to exercise brain cells...

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!

UNITED STATES (Sunday Mail) - JOSS Stone tops the list of celebrities with dog-parenting skills. Paris Hilton is the worst, an online poll of readers of dog magazines shows. Singer Stone, who has a poodle, Dusty Springfield, edged out actress Ashley Olsen.

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.

Pollution on Canada Reservation Is Probed (AP via Yahoo! News) - Growing up with smokestacks on the horizon, Ada Lockridge never thought much about the pollution that came out of them.

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.”