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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.

Adventures in parenting: the post-Christmas flu (Blogging Baby) - Filed under: Child Development , Feeding & Nutrition , Health and Safety I don't think I'm alone. But I sure am grumpy about it. It seems as if half of the world has contracted a dastardly Christmas-week stomach flu. Case #384871: Everett, who helped the family sleep in 'til 12:30 p.m. yesterday and then spent the day on the couch napping and watching all of his new "bideos." (Most

Part of good parenting is planning for future (South Coast Today) - It's time to get it together. It's time to do your family's financial and legal planning. It's important to write a will, enroll in tax plans and start saving for college because your children are counting on you.

Blogging Baby Sleepover: Tuesday, December 27 (Blogging Baby) - Filed under: Lifestyle , Media Well, it looks like the parenting blogworld is trying to get life back to the usual, after a weekend of Christmas revelry and excess. Turns out, trying to regain some sense of normalcy isn't exactly easy, as Tonya from Adventure Journalist: the notebook finds out, trying to get out of the Big Apple and back to Colorado (anyone know how to do laundry with

Grant helps nursery serve South County (The News-Review) - ROSEBURG: The Family Development Center in Roseburg recently received a $5,000 grant to help South County families attend parenting classes at the relief nursery.

Ex-Mayor Pleads Guilty to Cocaine Charge (WINK TV Southwest Florida) - PASADENA, Calif. A former Burbank mayor pleaded guilty to possessing cocaine but can stay out of prison if she completes a drug diversion program and drug and parenting classes.

Wyoming -- Tuesday, Dec. 27 (Casper Star-Tribune) - Coming Up Parenting skills * The Wyoming Children's Access Network provides parent-education seminars for divorcing, separated and never-married parents. The one-time 4-hour seminar is offered monthly in Cheyenne, Cody, Gillette, Jackson, Lander, Laramie, Rawlins, Rock Springs, Sheridan and Torrington. The seminar provides information on the impact of parental conflict on children and teaches

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

Alter window on our world (USA Today) - It's also distressing to note how rarely a positive story about kids gets play these days.

Quick fix is wrong fix for teen steroids (The Christian Science Monitor) - New Jersey's plan to test high school athletes for steroids undermines parental role, and student maturity.