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Parenting style puts premium on closeness (Fort Worth Star-Telegram) - By STACY DOWNS Tara Smith wears her 2-month-old son, Ronan, in a fabric sling she sewed. The sling frees Smith's hands for household tasks and helping her other children, Lily, 3, and Aden, 6. It is also a symbol of Smith's commitment to attachment parenting, a child-raising style that advocates extensive physical contact between parents and child as a way of strengthening the familial bond. ...

Clean Your Room and Other Parenting Myths (PRWeb via Yahoo! News) - Getting kids to buy into spring cleaning takes flexibility and compromise, says parenting expert and author Dr. Nancy Buck.

Parenting mag orders up Mustard Pancakes (KidScreen Magazine) - Mustard Pancakes , the live-action preschool series currently airing on the Ion Television Network, has partnered with Parenting Magazine for a series of cross-promos.

'Parenting Inc.' Charts Rising Costs of Baby Gear (NPR) - Traditional baby products have skyrocketed in price, with some strollers and cribs retailing for thousands of dollars. Pamela Paul's new book, Parenting Inc, describes how companies convince parents to pay so much for baby goods that end up cluttering their homes.

Cultural biases may influence parenting studies, scientist finds (EurekAlert!) - When two University of Illinois scientists set out to learn about the differences in Chinese and American parenting behaviors at mealtime, they learned something important about the reliability of cross-cultural research.

New curriculum will offer students classes on parenting, paternity (Brenham Banner-Press) - How to prove who your baby’s father is and how to get child support from a parent who won’t pay are some of what high school students will be learning in their health classes next year.

Parenting workshop about kindergarten April 23 in Laconia (The Citizen of Laconia) - "Getting Ready for Kindergarten," a session for parents, will be held on Wednesday, April 23 at the Laconia Early Learning Center, 22 Strafford St., Unit 4 in Laconia. Hosted by Lakes Region Child Care Services, a light dinner will be served at 5:30 p.m. with the workshop held from 6-7:30 p.m.

Dockside Services to Offer Professional Foster Parenting Program in Partnership With Ivy Tech Community College (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) - Dockside Services, Inc., a leading provider of foster care systems, today announced that it will be offering a Professional Foster Parenting Program in conjunction with Ivy Tech Community College, a 23 campus community college system that serves as Indiana's workforce development engine.

David Ambroz: An Elegant Solution, Act II: Foster Parenting (HuffingtonPost) - In the endless shuffle of social workers, judges, and therapists, foster parents might be the best hope for children in foster care.

Catholic Charities to work with teen parents (Green Bay Press-Gazette) - Catholic Charities will run Brown Countys teen parenting program, which was cut from the 2007 county budget but funded in the 2008 budget.