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Xtreme parenting: How working moms of twins and triplets cope (Sun-Sentinel) - Support networks allow moms with twins and triplets to balance parenting, careers The day after Donna Bean's triplets were born, a hurricane was threatening South Florida . She urged her husband, Jeff, to put up the shutters on their Coral Springs home. He fell from the ladder and broke his ankle.

X-Teams: The joy of parenting (The Manila Times) - WHEW! I AM terribly exhausted, both physically and emotionally. And I will tell you why. I have been the family driver for my one and only daughter—Rachel. This continues to be my wrinkle in this wonderful field of parenting.

Sweet potato parenting (New Orleans Times-Picayune) - She has already shared with the world the Sweet Potato Queens' cheeky brand of wisdom on the subject of marriage and divorce. But Mississippi author and "Boss Queen" Jill Conner Browne knew that she had left a void.

Woman gets probation for child neglect (Naples Daily News) - A 24-year-old homeless woman who twice brought four small children covered in dirt and feces to the Immokalee Friendship House was ordered Monday to continue medication and to take a parenting class.

Parenting role can take toll on grandparents (Dayton Daily News) - Derek is an overwhelming challenge to his caregivers. He is active, curious and extremely talkative. Derek is a picky eater, occasionally wets the bed and is an endless bundle of energy. In short, Derek is a normal 3-year-old boy, so why was a psychologist seeing him?

Everymom Blog (Northwest Herald) - Jami Kunzer writes about parenting. Click here to read her blog.

Charlotte IVF Experts Issue Urgent Call for Egg Donors, Eye New Recruiting Tools (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) - Radical shifts in parenting trends have fertility experts at Reproductive Endocrinology Associates of Charlotte eyeing far more aggressive means to recruit young women for egg donations in 2008 -- including new outreach through the Internet -- in efforts to stem an alarmingly widening gap between supply and demand.

Redding Jorgensen speaks about pre-teenagers (Redding Pilot) - The John Read Middle School PTA recently sponsored a parenting program, “Delay Your Gray: How to Keep Your Pre-teen Safe and Yourself Sane,” with guest speaker Liz Driscoll Jorgensen.

Parenting | Mothers and Sons (New York Times) - Sgt. Daniel Tallouzi, who was wounded in Iraq during a mortar attack in Baghdad, with his mother, Mary, at Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in West Orange, N.J. In the attack, a piece of shrapnel the size of a quarter pierced both hemispheres of Sergeant Tallouzi's brain.

Parenting key to success in first grade (UPI) - Infants termed difficult -- cry a lot, very active -- with high-quality parenting can become the best adjusted students in first grade, a U.S. study says.