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Great Bend Juvenile Services offers parenting class Feb. 12 (The Hutchinson News) - GREAT BEND - Great Bend's 20th Judicial District Juvenile Services will offer a Hispanic Parenting Class from 1 to 7 p.m. Feb. 12. Roberta Valencia will teach the class in Spanish. The class will allow parents to become actively engaged through educational materials, role-playing, and peer support.

School where parenting tops syllabus (BBC News) - In our week-long series on respect in one English town, we look at a school that helps parents deal with troubled children.

Full-time parenting impacts finances (The Salt Lake Tribune) - Ask Kelly Flynn of Dallas what she does for a living and she'll proudly tell you that she's a stay-at-home mom caring for her 2-year-old son, Eddie. There's no question that the emotional value of Flynn's services is priceless to her family. But how much do stay-at-home parents such as Flynn add financially to the household? A lot.

Parenting Report: Teaching children how to give (Tampa Bay's 10) - Clearwater, Florida -- Leigh Veghte spends a quiet morning with her almost two-year-old daughter, Payton. Her two older sons, Kristian and Ford, are in school.

Tips for parenting teens (Pantagraph) - DOWNS -- Being a parent isn’t always easy. Being the parent of a teenager can often be exasperating.

The fine details of family nurturing (ABS-CBNNEWS.com) - Supermodel turned supermom Tweetie de Leon-Gonzalez treats parenting like beadwork—she holds every detail in place with thorough attention as a labor of love. Each family situation, like every finished piece of beaded jewelry, is unique and should therefore be handled with lots of care.

Parenting requires a healthy sense of humor (Nashville City Paper) - Steve Martin got it right in Parenthood : sure, there are Norman Rockwell moments with two blissful adults beaming over a cooing, compliant child. That happens perhaps once a year.

Mind Matters: Definition, effects of child abuse (Albuquerque Tribune Online) - University of New Mexico: Define child abuse. What qualifies behavior as abusive? George Davis: That's one of the great questions of parenting. I've seen parents do things that might not "qualify" as physically abusive, but would be emotionally abusive.

Breastfeeding group celebrates 25 years (Bega District News) - THE Bega-Imlay group of the Australian Breastfeeding Association (formerly Nursing Mothers) has been supporting parents in the Bega Valley with breastfeeding and parenting for at least 25 years.

Schools reaping results of taking away prayer, pledge (The Advocate Messenger) - I agree with the letter writer who said that parenting can make a difference in our school system. However, he wrote that people probably do not discipline their children the way that they were raised.