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Disney Publishing Worldwide Debuts New Parenting Magazine (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) - NEW YORK----Feb. 14, 2006--Carrying nearly 70 pages of advertising, Disney Publishing Worldwide introduces Wondertime, on newsstands this week. Designed to help moms understand how children are learning and growing, Wondertime, the first new U.S. magazine from Disney Publishing Worldwide in more than a decade, promises to create a refreshing new niche in the parenting category.

Public Lecture On Parenting Skills For Special Children At UBD This Friday (BruDirect.com) - Bandar Seri Begawan – The Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Institute of Education (SHBIE), Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) will be holding a public lecture entitled `Kemahiran Keibubapaan Untuk Kanak-Kanak Khas' (Parenting Skills For Special Children) this Friday from 9am onwards at the Lecture Theatre, Chancellor's Hall.

Parents get together via iPod 'radio' (USA Today) - Dozens of parenting podcasts have emerged in the past year and are available via the Internet. The catalyst was new technology that began catching on in late 2004 that enables users to subscribe to programs and have new episodes automatically delivered to their computers when they are released.

Positive parenting program offered (The White Lake Beacon) - Redirecting Children's Behavior, a positive approach to parenting toddlers to teenagers is presented Thursday, Feb. 16, at the White Lake Montessori in Whitehall.

Fathers blaze trails in parenting (Contra Costa Times) - For the last eight years, the Grateful Dads and their kids have hiked the trails of Marin County, combining cardio workouts with some serious baby bonding.

TOM MCMAHON: KID TIPS: New disciplinary technique promotes empathy (Contra Costa Times) - YOUR PARENTING quiver probably holds a collection of disciplinary strategies such as threats of punishment, withdrawal of privileges, timeouts and maybe even spanking. There is another type of discipline that few parents know of but is research-based and gaining favor with both child experts and parents. It's called induction -- a process by which children learn how their misbehavior has affected

Parenting: Helping your child deal with his shyness (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - Q. My little boy is very shy. How can I help him get over it? A. Mild shyness is actually a good trait in young children, particularly when it comes to safety.

Free workshops help parents with school (Daily Press) - Newport News Public Schools will hold free workshops on parenting, homework and meeting with your child's teacher from 5:45 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. Thursday at An Achievable Dream Academy, 726 16th St.

RELIGION - Northeast Suburban Life (Community Press & Recorder) - "Consequences: Natural and Logical" is the topic in the Systematic Training for Effective Parenting (STEP) series at the 9:45 a.m. discussion Sunday, Feb. 19, by Louise Bower, early childhood educator and trained STEP instructor.

Court: Jackson's ex-wife's parental rights improperly terminated (CNN.com) - A California appeals court ruled Wednesday that a lower court improperly terminated Deborah Rowe's parental rights to her two children with pop star Michael Jackson, opening the door to a possible custody battle between the singer and his ex-wife.