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Parenting by John Rosemond (Duluth News Tribune) - Today's parents don't take responsibility for parenting

FAMILY INITIATIVES: Two very different proposals (Grand Forks Herald) - North Dakota's "precedent-setting" shared parenting ballot initiatives have the same long-term goal, but organizers say that's where the similarities end.

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.

Markets (July 21) (The Hindu) - CHILDREN & PARENTING Time to make nature study fun item for kids Kids are taught by books and not many have been helped to observe a common sparrow build its nest under the window sill of a home.

Lesters find nerves part of parenting a Red Sox rookie (The Oregonian) - SEATTLE W hen it's time to watch their son live a dream with the Boston Red Sox, Kathie and John Lester retire to different corners of their Puyallup, Wash., home.

Reel parenting: Mom and sons fishing together (Sun-Sentinel) - People in the fishing industry are concerned that youngsters aren't getting into the sport like they used to because of the increasing number of single-parent families.

Tips for Parenting with Electronic Media (Pioneer Press) - Tough as they are for many of us to follow, here are the key tips offered by most child-development specialists: • Limit the amount of time, by the day or the week, your child sits before television, computer and other screens, recognizing you can allow some flexibility under special circumstances, such as rainy days or an outstanding series or movie. One to two hours a day is the maximum time

Advice by Marilyn Heins, M.D. : Parenting Specify expectations before daughter moves back home (Arizona Daily Star) - Q: My 25-year-old daughter is moving back home. My husband, our daughter and I are of mutual understanding that this is a temporary situation while she goes back to school. This will help her save on rent, and she has agreed to help with the utility bills. We are going to sit down and put plan to paper. What are each of our expectations, house rules, time frame for this goal to transpire, etc.,

Parents (Aberdeen American News) - Changing nature of parenting One of the great ironies of our time is that today's parents, with more professional resources at their disposal than ever before, are experiencing more and greater problems in the area of discipline than their grandparents even thought possible. Once upon a not-so-very-long-ago time, children were mischievous. They tried to get away with what they thought they could

Loving countercultural Phoebe's foibles on 'Owl Island' (The Oregonian) - "O wl Island" is the life story of Phoebe, who lives on the working-artist side of a fictional Puget Sound island and who possesses a striated appeal that comes from 40 years of voracious reading, headstrong loving, a few oddball jobs and single-parenting a daughter who turns into a gainfully employed adult.