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Meet the 'Browns' star Angela Bassett (USA Today) - What's love got to do with it? Everything, in Tyler Perry's latest hit film, Meet the Browns. Angela Bassett plays a single mom who gets her mojo working thanks to hunky Rick Fox. The actress, 49, talks about pride, parenting and that Perry magic with USA TODAY.

Parenting multiples takes organization (Austin American-Statesman) - An organizer by nature and profession, Rachel Rosenthal Strisik's impulse toward order hit full throttle when she learned she was pregnant with twins.

Group offers free parenting workshops (The Iowa City Press-Citizen) - United Action for Youth is offering free parenting workshops at the Hills Family Resource Center beginning Thursday.

Boy's Death Attaches Stigma To Foster Parenting (WLWT-TV Cincinnati) - Efforts to recruit foster parents in three southwest Ohio counties have foundered since the death of Marcus Fiesel.

Left-brain parenting has pros, cons (Chicago Tribune) - NEW YORK — Physicist Dan Sisan tried everything to get his newborn daughter to stop crying — feeding her, rocking, hugging, singing, giving her a swing. Nothing worked. He consulted baby books and Web sites, but they did not tell him what he really wanted to know.

Mother-child attachment, children's temperament play a role in terrible 2 conflicts (EurekAlert!) - Stories about the “terrible twos” abound in parenting lore.

Uganda: First Lady Advises On Parenting (AllAfrica.com) - THE first lady, Ms Janet Museveni, has appealed to parents to appreciate their God-given task of nurturing and bringing up children. She warned them against apportioning their responsibilities to institutions like schools, the church or government.

She's the girl of their dreams (Hastings Gazette) - Meet Qona, the nine-year-old girl at the heart of an extraordinary tale of modern-day parenting. Her birth mother lives in Sydney with her girlfriend. Her other mother, the woman she calls "mum" - the ex-girlfriend of her birth mother - raised her in New Zealand on her own.

Background checks one reason foster parent recruiting dragging (Lexington Herald-Leader) - Efforts to recruit foster parents in three southwest Ohio counties have foundered since the death of a child who was bound and left in a closet. Tough background checks were instituted to weed out bad risks, but the increased scrutiny also led good prospective foster parents to walk away. "There's been a negative stigma attached to foster parenting," said Brian Gregg, spokesman for the Hamilton ...

Nick launches three new mobile sites (KidScreen Magazine) - Nickelodeon/MTVN Kids and Family Group will launch three new mobile websites that include a selection of kids' games, pictures and flipbooks, teen-oriented quizzes, blogs, daily parenting tips and access to information on local family activities.