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Shared parenting best for children (Bismarck Tribune) - The proposed North Dakota Shared Parenting Initiative is perhaps the best piece of thinking to have been presented in a long time. For too long, children involved in custody disputes have been used as leverage to gain an advantage in proceedings.

Thousands Attend 2006 Parenting Fair (Greene County) - The gymnasium at Hal Henard Elementary School was bustling with activity Saturday at the 11th annual Greeneville-Greene County Parenting Fair.

Elkton, Winchester parenting classes (The News-Review) - DOUGLAS COUNTY: The Douglas County Early Childhood Planning Coalition is offering parenting class sessions in Winchester and Elkton that begin April 5.

Parenting: My baby won't sleep -- and neither can I (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - Q. My eight-month-old baby used to sleep through the night, but hasn't for the last three months. He wakes up screaming every half-hour to two hours. Please help -- I can't meet his needs if I can't get any sleep myself.

Teen mother turns into parenting leader (The Des Moines Register) - Highland Park’s Kristy Terry, who now has nine children, earns a national award for her work with Parents Anonymous.

Three Sides of the Coin: A Survey About Parenting Teens (PR Web) - Author and parenting consultant Sue Blaney has just launched an online survey aimed at parents of teens, veteran parents who have grown children, and twenty-something adults in order to find out what works and what doesn't when raising teenagers. She invites responses from anyone who would like to share their insight or concerns and hopes to receive 1000 responses by the end of April. [PRWEB Mar

Moniteau County R-5 receives Pearl Award (Jefferson City News Tribune) - The Moniteau County R-5 School District in Latham recently was honored with a Pearl Award by the Practical Parenting Partnerships (PPP) at its 2006 Family Festival in Osage Beach.

What Boys Read (Washington Post) -  Parenting newsletter readers have shelf-loads of suggestions for reluctant male readers after last week's column on girls' lit appealing to boys. Many e-mailed to share titles and tips on getting their sons to read.  

Kudos to parents for expecting best (Akron Beacon Journal) - I am constantly on the lookout for stories of, and usually from, parents who have managed to think clearly under stress and handle extraordinary parenting situations extraordinarily. These are parents who have exhibited unusual courage under not-so-friendly fire, parents who should be recognized (but rarely are) as paragons of parenting virtue (when they are often regarded as the opposite).

Theater review: "Point of Revue" has a cabaret ease in discussing serious material (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) - It would be presumptuous to suggest "Point of Revue" captures the zeitgeist of Black America -- as if that were a neatly categorized monolith. Suffice to say that the current show at Mixed Blood Theatre collects 15 honest and interesting vignettes by African-American writers, ranging from personal meditations on parenting, to how our unruly society plays to stereotype when discussing race.