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Incarcerated moms to get parenting help (Palo Alto Weekly) - A new program beginning Thursday will offer parenting classes and information kits to women prisoners at Santa Clara County's Elmwood Jail, which includes 80 percent of the 550 women incarcerated.

Obama Delivers Tough-Love Parenting Message to Black Audiences (Bloomberg via Yahoo! News) - March 4 (Bloomberg) -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama stood before a largely black audience in Beaumont, Texas, last week and delivered tough love to thunderous applause.

'Little Rock Family' Wins Awards from Parenting Publications of America (Arkansas Business) - Parenting Publications of America (PPA) gave out more than 400 Editorial and Design Competition awards to 78 parenting newspapers and magazines at a banquet on March 1, 2008, the climax of the three-day PPA Annual Convention in Little Rock.

Parenting Toddlers Blog Launches (PR.com) - The newly launched Parenting Tips for Toddlers blog provides important tips and practical advice to parents, helping to alleviate some of the stresses of raising toddlers. [PR.com - February 28, 2008]

Expert to discuss confident parenting (Winchester Star) - WINCHESTER – A nationally recognized parenting expert who advocates raising children with confidence, control, and authority will speak Sunday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Winchester.

Support groups (The Patriot-News) - Basic Baby Care, two-day parenting class series, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Thursday and March 13, Carlisle Regional Medical Center's Women's Center, 45 Sprint Drive. Cost, $27.50 per couple. Registration: 960-1687.

Carolyn Hax : By Carolyn Hax : Parenting classes are in order (Arizona Daily Star) - Adapted from a recent online discussion.

Fighting crime with parenting classes (FOX 30 Jacksonville) - A pastor in Brunswick says fighting crime should start in the home by teaching parents and children family values.

Successful Parenting in Data Quality (IT-Analysis) - DataFlux was a small data quality company of around a dozen employees in 2000 when it was acquired by SAS. Companies often like to portray grand strategic thinking when it comes to purchases, but this one got started because a SAS executive was caught in a snowstorm and shared a long rental car ride with a DataFlux employee; shortly afterwards SAS came to call with their cheque book.

Son needs you both to go to parenting classes (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) - EDITOR'S NOTE: Adapted from a recent online discussion.