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Sharing secrets of parenting (Harrow Times) - TWO parenting experts divulged their secrets to an audience of Harrow mums and dads last week. A seminar was arranged by Rachel Gardner, of BBC2 programme No Sex Please We're Teenagers, and Rosemary Lamaison, a parent mentor for Pinner voluntary organisation Hope, to mentor local parents.

Successful Sports Parenting wins Davey Award (USA Swimming) - The interactive CD Successful Sports Parenting is a winner of a 2006 Davey Award. The CD was a joint project of USA Swimming and US Ski and Snowboard, produced by BigRig Creative out of Point Pleasant, NJ.

Meeting about foster parenting set for April 19 (Marin Independent Journal) - The Marin County Division of Social Services will hold an informational meeting about foster parenting from 7 to 8:30 p.m. April 19 at the division's office at 10 N.

Successful Sports Parenting wins Davey Award (USA Swimming) - The interactive CD Successful Sports Parenting is a winner of a 2006 Davey Award.

Elayne Boosler: In Praise Of Nappy Hair (HuffingtonPost) - "NAPPY HAIR" GETS TEACHER SUSPENDED Excerpted from The New York Times December 4, 1998 By Clyde Haberman A well-intentioned third-grade teacher, who happens to be white, gave her mostly black and Hispanic students a critically praised book (winner of a Parenting Reading Magic Award) about a black girl with kinky hair. "Nappy Hair" is about a young heroine who celebrates that which makes ...

Why men may still need to fight for equality (The Herald) - Have you noticed people never use the phrase "fatherhood and apple pie"? How they talk about parents and parenting when they really mean mothers and mothering?

School Board parenting series for grandparents (Sun-Sentinel) - Grand Parenting Program

Parenting project makes a difference for parents, kids (Kern Valley Sun) - The first Kern River Valley Parent Project®, a 10-week course being offered by Summit High School and the Family Resource Center to help parents of troubled teens, ended last Tuesday, March 27, and the parents couldn't have been happier with the progress they have made.

Broward School Board offers parenting classes geared toward grandparents (Sun-Sentinel) - Social issues, resources for children on School Board program's agenda Recognizing that grandparents raising their grandchildren often face added obstacles, the Broward County School Board for the first time is having a parenting series just for them.

Kaboose Appoints Dottie Enrico Publisher of Babyzone.com (FinanzNachrichten) - TORONTO, April 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Kaboose Inc. ( Nachrichten ) (TSX: KAB), the largest independent family-focused online media company in North America, announced today that Dottie Enrico, a twenty-year editorial veteran, has been named Publisher of Kaboose's pregnancy and parenting website, Babyzone.com.