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Judge Honored for 'Shared Parenting' Stance (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) - Wayne County, Michigan Family Court Judge Bill Callahan has been named "Judge of the Year" by the Dads and Moms of Michigan organization. Judge Bill Callahan has consistently shown an interest in the welfare of the children and in "healthy parenting" according to the Family law lawyers who nominated him.

Few effects of poor day care last past age 11 (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - Some effects of poor quality day care last until age 10 or 11, but very few, and good parenting is probably more important, U.S. government researchers reported on Monday.

Could parenting get any harder? (Salon.com) - A longitudinal study on American childcare shows that time spent in daycare can lead to behavior problems later on.

Study Says Day Care's Quality, Parenting Affect Behavior (KCCI 8 Des Moines) - A new study looks at day-care centers and their affect on children's behavior.

Few effects of poor daycare last past age 11 (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - Some effects of poor quality daycare last until age 10 or 11, but very few, and good parenting is probably more important, U.S. government researchers reported on Monday.

Center-based Care Yields More Behavior Problems; In Other Types Of Care, Problems Short-lived (Science Daily) - New data from a federally-funded longitudinal study show that that children who spent more time in center-based childcare exhibited more problem behavior through sixth grade. Quality of parenting was found to be a stronger and more consistent predictor of social functioning and achievement than early childcare experiences. Higher quality early childcare was also associated with better ...

Parenting: Mommy's Favorite (Psychology Today) - Why parents can't play fair.

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.

Study ties day care to behavior problems (MSNBC) - The more time that kids spent in day care, the more likely their sixth -grade teachers were to report problem behaviors such as getting in fights, being disobedient in school and arguing a lot, according to the largest study of child care and development ever conducted in the United States. But quality of day care and overall parenting were still bigger predictors of child development.

Parenting tip of the week: Eating disorders among teenagers (Savannah Morning News) - Our image-obsessed culture can make it difficult for teenagers to fit in. Having concerns about body image is normal. However, teens cross the line by engaging in behaviors which can be physically or emotionally dangerous. The problem then becomes an eating disorder. Some signs include being obsessed with weight and food, excessively counting calories, or going on a restrictive diet, using ...