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Parenting workshop set for May 15 (Ventura County Star) - Tom Prinz, a marriage and family therapist, will lead a four-week parenting seminar titled "How to Get Your Child and Teenager to Mind, Without Losing Your Mind," based on Prinz's book "Dragon Slaying for Parents."

'Reward' good parenting (BBC News) - Parents should be rewarded for spending quality time with their children, head teachers say.

Nearly One-third Of US Parents Don't Know What To Expect Of Infants (Science Daily) - Almost one-third of US parents have a surprisingly low-level knowledge of typical infant development and unrealistic expectations for their child's physical, social and emotional growth. The new findings suggest that such false parenting assumptions can not only impair parent-child interactions, but also rob kids of much-needed cognitive stimulation.

Columbus Parent Expo (WCMH Columbus) - The fourth annual Columbus Parent Magazine EXPO will take placetoday at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium. With more than 100 exhibits in one convenient area of the zoo, this parenting event will make it easy for parents to discover hundreds of family-oriented resources in just one day.

New family literacy centres to open in fall (LondonTopic.ca) - Four new parenting and family literacy centres are slated to open in the London area this fall, thanks, in part, to a province-wide $2 million investment announced by the Ontario Government, Friday (May 2).

PARENTING JOHN ROSEMOND Good enough can be enough (The Myrtle Beach Sun News) - Today's parents believe in psychology, a predominant paradigm of which is behavior modification; therefore, today's parents tend to believe that behavior, any behavior, can be modified by properly manipulating reward and punishment. That was in fact the Utopian view of B.F. Skinner, the author of modern behavioral psychology. Skinner did not put any stock in the notion of a unique, shared human ...

Rick McCrabb: Good parenting advice deserves a dash of real-world perspective (Middletown Journal) - Dr. Barton Goldsmith, a marriage and family therapist in Westlake Village, Calif., recently listed 10 tips to help parents raise their children.

Nearly one-third of US parents don't know what to expect of infants (EurekAlert!) - Almost one-third of US parents have a surprisingly low-level knowledge of typical infant development and unrealistic expectations for their child's physical, social and emotional growth, according research from the University of Rochester. The new findings, which suggest that such false parenting assumptions can not only impair parent-child interactions, but also rob kids of much-needed ...

Parenting Assistance Line answers parents' questions (The Andalusia Star-News) - Not all children are created equal and parents might not have an answer to every bump along their child's developmental road, but the University of Alabama's Child Development Resources department has created the Parenting Assistance Line (PAL) to handle the questions that come along the way.

Parenting: Madonna, Malawi and a tale of two children (Independent) - Life began in very similar ways for David Banda and Lydia Solomon. David was born in the village of Lipunga, 100 miles east of Malawi's capital, Lilongwe, in September 2006. Lydia was born one month later, 10 miles down the road in Chikoi.