LIBabies.com Web News Archive

Parenting Program sees dream fulfilled (The Oregonian) - Meera Batra had modest expectations for the Season of Sharing Wishbook. She thought maybe readers would contribute enough money to buy some books, blocks and balls for children in Neighborhood House's Parenting Program.

Web zine adds humor to art of parenting (The Columbus Dispatch) - That a new online magazine for parents, Babble, should be introduced by the sex site Nerve.com seems at once ludicrous and altogether logical. Sure, after nine years of being sexually titillated and encouraged by the editors of Nerve, readers have understandably produced results.

Parenting Skills Among Child Therapies (RedNova) - Non-drug approaches, such talk therapy, should be considered before dispensing drugs to children with behavior or emotional issues, a psychiatry group said.

Dobson, gay-rights leaders at odds over parenting (Knoxville News Sentinel) - COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - James Dobson, chairman of Focus on the Family and syndicated columnist, said online that "the two most loving women in the world cannot provide a daddy for a little boy."

Parenting as Therapy for Child?s Mental Disorders (New York Times) - The science behind nondrug treatments for childhood behavioral disorders is getting stronger.

THE TIES THAT FIND (Tyler Morning Telegraph) - EDITOR'S NOTE: This story is the first in a two-part series on adoption and foster parenting.

Parenting UK offers wisdom you can trust (The Ham&High Network) - WHEN TV producers feed our gleeful fascination with watching other people's badly behaved kids, they can give parenting advice a bad name.

Parenting: Letting the kids earn money will build maturity (The Sacramento Bee) - Q: I have a daughter, 13, and a son, 14. During the school year, they spend many hours studying. Both of them complete homework assignments on time and earn excellent grades. They play musical instruments, participate in sports and have active social lives and nice friends.

Lititz Public Library Hosts COBYS Parenting Program (RedNova) - Lititz Public Library in partnership with COBYS Family Services will host an Active Parenting of Teens course starting Jan. 10 from 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Rene Syler Bids Farewell (CBS News) - The co-anchor is leaving The Early Show , writing a book about parenting, and having a bilateral prophylactic mastectomy. Both her parents had breast cancer.