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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.

'Amazing woman' striving for self-reliance (The Buffalo News) - Sometimes, when she wakes up at 4:45 a.m. to begin a hectic day of work, education and parenting that won't be over until almost midnight, Donna M. Coplin wonders what keeps her going.

Advice by Marilyn Heins, M.D. : Parenting Gift idea for kids: good manners (Arizona Daily Star) - Call me old-fashioned, but I think manners are important. They are especially important in this holiday season.

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.

Full-time parents often undervalued (Dallas Morning News) - Ask Kelly Flynn of Dallas what she does for a living and she'll proudly tell you that she's a stay-at-home mom caring for her 2-year-old son, Eddie. There's no question that the emotional value of Mrs. Flynn's services is priceless to her family.

Judge discharges Tribbles (Stuff) - Knowing they might have prevented their son's death was enough punishment for Catherine and David Tribble a High Court judge said today, as he convicted and discharged the Northland couple.