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Pan-Roasted Asparagus: grown-up flavor to savor (Dayton Daily News) - There was a time in my two decades of parenting that I tried to serve kid-friendly vegetables. Then I realized that, short of intravenous feeding, most vegetables were not going to make it past my girls' esophagi, and I abandoned all hope of raising nutritionally sound children.

Parenting by Marilyn Heins : Understand Asperger's for best outcome (Arizona Daily Star) - Q: My 6-year-old-grandson has been diagnosed with Asperger's. He is very bright (he loves marine life), but he must be helped in many ways. He is hyperactive and blurts out inappropriate remarks. I understand that adolescence can be particularly challenging. Can anything be done to help?

Inmates praise program helping parenting skills (22 WSBT South Bend) - (AP) Prison inmates who have completed a parenting program say it has helped them better connect with their children while behind bars. The first class of 19 inmates at the Correctional Industrial Facility in Pendleton graduated Wednesday from the Inside/Out Dad program.

March a good month to remember to be smoke-free (Eaton Rapids Community News) - EATON COUNTY — To commemorate March 2007 as the 14th annual celebration of Parenting Awareness Month in Michigan, the Eaton Substance Abuse Advisory Group wants to encourage parents, caregivers and the community as a whole to provide a healthy and smoke-free environment for families.

Woman, 71, adopts 5 great-grandchildren (Helena Independent Record) - KALISPELL (AP) — Call it extreme parenting. Seventy-one-year-old Virginia Crawford and her husband, Charlie, 76, have adopted her five great-grandchildren.

Parenting classes offered weekly (Reno Gazette-Journal) - Fallon Family Focus is offering free to the community, classes that deal with parenting skills on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Adult Education Center, 590 N. Maine.

RADIO HIGHLIGHTS (San Francisco Chronicle) - SUNDAY To the Best of Our Knowledge. Hour 1: "First Novels." Hour 2: "Re-Thinking Islam." KALW-FM (91.7) 8 a.m. I'm Talkin' Jazz. Vocalist Roz Corral. Chris Cortez, host. KCSM-FM (91.1) 8 a.m. Positive Parenting With Mr. Dad. Barbara...

High school offers girls parenting reality show (Wiscasset Newspaper) - Two weeks ago, Guidance Counselor Susan Sanders at Wiscasset High School had six excited "mothers-to-be" waiting outside her office door at 8 a.m. anxiously waiting to hold their new "babies."

What’s your parenting style? (Chattanooga Times Free Press) - Psychologists have identified four primary “parenting styles” — determined by the balance between showing love and setting limits. Too much love, and parents become enmeshed with their children. Too many limits, and parents become rigid in their relationship with their children.

Author Offers G-Rated Tools (The Signal) - Providing a message of family unity and distributing a set of 10 parenting "tools," author and parental tipster Brent Hatch spent Saturday afternoon speaking to a handful of Santa Clarita Valley residents at the Canyon Country Jo Anne Darcy Library.