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Parenting classes begin May 1 in Menominee (Escanaba Daily Press) - MENOMINEE — Common Sense Parenting Classes will begin Tuesday, May 1 at the First Presbyterian Church located at 923 5th Street, in Menominee. The class is free and child care is not provided. To register, call Teaching Family Homes at (906) 249-kids (5437) or 1-800-292-5260.

'Dangers' testing parents' skills (BBC News) - Children face "terrifying" dangers, says a partner in a new academy to train parenting advisers.

Proper parenting will prevent abuse (News 14 Charlotte) - CHARLOTTE -- Every year, thousands of children across North Carolina are abused. But the father of a famous son says learning how to properly raise your children can change that.

Students learn about parenting (Culpeper Star-Exponent) - Sara McDowell, Culpeper County High School parenting teacher, asks her students what they've learned from a labor and delivery movie they viewed Thursday afternoon.

School pilots guide to parenting (The Herald) - A radical guide to parenting which gives families advice on how to motivate children to do well at school is being piloted at a Scottish primary.

10 reasons celebrities shouldn’t have kids (MSNBC) - You know the saying: “You need a SAG card to make a movie, but you don’t need a license to have a kid.” With the spate of bad celebrity-parenting news, who's looking out for the children? Either you’re a celebrity, or you’re a parent. Here are 10 reasons why you can't have it all.

'Nanny state' row over parent academy (Daily Telegraph) - Ministers have been accused of "nationalising the family" with plans for the first national college for parenting.

'Helicopter' parents hover when kids job hunt (USA Today) - Employers are finding that parents are increasingly involved in their children's job choices, as "helicopter parenting" extends to the workplace.

Interview: Dorit Braun, chief executive of Parentline Plus (Guardian Unlimited) - The chief executive of Parentline Plus, the charity that will help run the new National Parenting Academy, tells Yvonne Roberts how support and advice to families in crisis is needed more than ever.

£30m to teach parents to sing nursery rhymes (Daily Mail) - Parents are to be taught to sing nursery rhymes to their children in a £30million Government initiative recently unveiled. A parenting academy is being launched to improve child-rearing skills