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CA Boom 4: The West Coast Independent Design Show Adds a New Area - the 'Modern Parenting' Zone (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) - Recognizing that good design need not stop at the door to the kid's room, the CA Boom design show will for the first time ever include a "Modern Parenting Zone," a new and exciting display of the latest in modern design for babies, kids, and contemporary parents.

Parenting FCAT called baby-sitting (The Palm Beach Post) - My husband, Roger, and I returned from North Carolina a week ago where we baby-sat for the three grandchildren for six days and a few hours. But who's counting? And we all survived with just a few glitches.

Norway: Getting Paid for Parenting (US News & World Report) - When my Norwegian wife became pregnant with our first child, we sat down and sketched out the pros and cons of staying to raise our family in this cold, dark land of fiords and steep taxes or returning to California. As we compared the two, the choice became clear: Norway.

Blogs propel parenting wars into cyberspace (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette) - It started with a sweet little essay by a woman about nursing her 4-year-old. In a bygone era, the woman’s story may have prompted a lively discussion over the breakfast table. But she wrote her story in a blog, unleashing 141 reader responses ranging from “Good for you!” to “That’s just gross.”

Library to host parenting class (The Reporter) - The Parent Project, a no-nonsense parenting class will be held Monday evenings from 6 to 9 p.m. staring March 26 at the Vacaville Public Library, Town Square in downtown Vacaville.

Woman, 71, adopts five great-grandchildren (Helena Independent Record) - KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) - Call it extreme parenting.

Woman, 71, adopts five great-grandchildren (Billings Gazette) - KALISPELL - Call it extreme parenting. Seventy-one-year-old Virginia Crawford and her husband, Charlie, 76, have adopted her five great-grandchildren.

Associate Circuit Court News (Democrat News) - Joshua Mullins of Marquand; Endangering the Welfare of a Child, Class A Misdemeanor. 30 days in jail, suspended execution of sentence. One year unsupervised probation. Take parenting class within three months. 300 fine plus court costs. Leanna M. Kirkpatrick of Fredericktown; Unlawful Use of Drug Paraphernalia. 100 fine plus court costs. Matthew G. Gardner of Silva, Missouri; Possession of ...

Families First offers parenting classes (Portsmouth Herald) - PORTSMOUTH -- The teen years are often the phase of child-rearing that parents dread most.

TAKE PART: Busy moms, do you need a personal assistant? (Fairview Observer) - Raising a young child takes a lot of time. Have you thought about hiring someone to take over some of your parental duties? Have you found — or do you offer — services such as potty training, party planning, baby-proofing and other traditional tasks of parenting?