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Free parenting workshops offered at Project Self-Sufficiency (The Warren Reporter) - Project Self-Sufficiency will offer a free parenting workshop for parents and their children from infancy through the age of 10. The class will be held on Tuesdays beginning May 26 from 6-8 p.m. at the agency's campus, located at 127...

Parenting classes at Riverside center delve into positive problem solving, more (The Press-Enterprise) - As the Tuesday night parenting class progressed, parents began opening up a bit more, talking about struggles and successes, one shedding a few tears as she recalled a breakthrough moment with her 9-year-old daughter. Some families had grown children and young grandchildren, while others were there to learn new techniques for toddler-age children.

New organization wants to establish parenting discussion group (The State Journal-Register) - A new community group hopes to start a citywide parenting discussion group.

Slurred by the adoption Nazis: Critics of gay parenting are branded 'retarded homophobes' (Daily Mail) - Slurred by the adoption Nazis: Critics of gay parenting are branded 'retarded homophobes'

Center-based care and insensitive parenting may have lasting effects (EurekAlert!) - Researchers following about 1,000 children from 1 month through mid-adolescence have shown that children who, during their first three years, (a) had mothers who were more insensitive and/or (b) spent more time in center-based child care -- whether of high or low quality -- were more likely to have the atypical pattern of lower levels of cortisol just after awakening when they were 15 years of ...

Extreme Parenting on TLC (Time Magazine) - How cable's megafamily reality shows captivate parents and push our social buttons

Leading Off: NBA, NHL need classes for playoff parenting (The Sacramento Bee) - This is normally a fun time of year because of the simultaneous NBA and NHL playoffs. Yet it's turning out to be a postseason of bad parenting.

Parenting and AA Meetings available weekly (Apache Moccasin) - Tribal Social Services is reminding all Child Protective Service (CPS) parents to continue with their attendance to Parenting Classes held every Tuesday and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Social Service Conference room.

Infant sleep patterns and parenting focus of study (EurekAlert!) - ( Penn State ) Infants' sleep patterns and their parents' influence on it are the focus of the SIESTA II project, supported by a five-year, $2.67 million grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to Douglas M. Teti, professor of human development and psychology, Penn State.

Program on parenting: What drives them crazy (Marin Independent Journal) - The final presentation in a series of five parenting sessions will be Wednesday evening, May 13, at the Church of the Redeemer at 123 Knight Drive in San Rafael.