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Youth Bureau Offers Parenting Class (Oswego Daily News) - OSWEGO, NY - The Oswego City-County Youth Bureau will present the Early Childhood STEP Parenting Class beginning Jan. 10. The course includes seven 2-hour sessions for parents who have children up to age six.

Moms, dads can commiserate, share tips at Parenting Place (Denver Post) - Loneliness and isolation were not the emotions Gail Wagner expected to feel when she became a first-time mother nearly two years ago. The 43-year-old Boulder resident says her initial foray into parenting was fraught with unexpected challenges, from the basics of breast-feeding and changing diapers to the sheer exhaustion that comes

Parenting 101 series begins Jan. 3 (The News-Review) - ROSEBURG: Parents and guardians looking to improve their child-rearing abilities can register now for Parenting 101 classes.

Gardeners get parenting practice (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette) - I love to garden. For most of my life, it’s been my favorite way to relax, to create and to feel one with nature. On the weekends, I’d be up before sunrise, dressed and ready to take on the garden at dawn’s first light.

Local parenting classes offered in Durant (Herald Democrat) - DURANT, Okla. - The Bryan County OSU Extension Center is providing parenting classes on positive discipline and guidance.

Formulaic comedy offers few laughs (The Charlotte Observer) - "Cheaper by the Dozen 2" is perfectly acceptable schmaltz, another movie ode to permissive parenting and inadequate birth control. So if you didn't get your "the more the merrier" jollies with the remake of "Yours, Mine & Ours," here's a sequel to the first "Dozen" that opens today.

No-nonsense juge settled thousands of parents' fights (The Plain Dealer) - Thick silence and stern faces in a courthouse waiting room told of years of fighting. Fighting about parenting. Fighting about money. Raw, bitter emotions kept the former couple and their two attorneys battling for more than a year about child support.

Questions that'll get the family talking (Chicago Tribune) - NEW YORK -- "Communication" is a popular buzzword when it comes to parenting, but it's something much easier said than done. What is your greatest hidden talent?

Variety of products now sold at events in homes (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) - Move over, Tupperware and Mary Kay.

LMISD plans educational summit (Galveston County Daily News) - Texas Education Commissioner Shirley Neeley will be the keynote speaker at the La Marque Independent School District’s education summit in February. School district officials said the summit is an effort to build educational partnerships with parents and the community.