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Business briefcase (River Valley Business Report) - Coulee Parenting Connection, a bi-monthly magazine devoted to improving family life in the Coulee Region, celebrated its five-year publishing anniversary by donating $825 to the La Crosse Community Foundation.

While convenient, cell phones can hang up parenting (Clarkston Eccentric) - A few years ago, I did a column about how annoying cell phones are. My complaints included the usual: people on cell phones blocking the grocery store aisle; drivers paying more attention to their phone conversations than to their driving; people taking calls and ignoring the people around them.

New parenting program for first-time expectant moms and dads available in Hamilton (Hamilton Mountain News) - First-time parents expecting their baby from December 2006 to early May 2007 can now enroll in a free, prenatal and parenting program - The Parenting Partnership.

Hill Worries About Mcgraws Strictness (ContactMusic) - Country queen FAITH HILL is urging her husband TIM MCGRAW to read self-help parenting books because she fears he'll become a tyrant when their daughte

Parenting by John Rosemond (Duluth News Tribune) - Treat young genius as you would a typical child

Divorcing parents must take class on dealing with kids (Colorado Springs Gazette) - Parents getting divorced shouldn’t bad-mouth their soonto-be ex-spouse in front of the children. That’s one of the things parents learn at a mandatory class on parenting during divorce.

Novel as news misses (South Bend Tribune) - While managing editor of The Charlotte Observer from 1979 to 1988, Mark Ethridge directed two Pulitzer Prize-winning investigations. He is the third generation of his family to succumb to newspapering. Currently, he is president of Carolina Parenting, which publishes magazines.

Americans might learn from Indian parenting (The Cincinnati Enquirer) - In the Asian countries, particularly India, we do parenting differently. This became firmly implanted in my mind when I visited an American friend of mine.

Lawyer tips jump in child abduction (Sydney Morning Herald) - MORE parents would be tempted to abduct their children and flee overseas as a result of 'shared parenting' changes to the Family Law Act, an international child abduction expert has warned. -

Fight over same-sex unions hits court in S.F. / Several lawsuits, pro and con, will be argued in marathon session (San Francisco Chronicle) - The legal war over same-sex marriage in California reaches a new milestone Monday when lawyers for gay and lesbian couples, religious conservatives, the city of San Francisco and the state will appear before an appellate court for a marathon hearing....