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Parenting books provide terrific ideas (Inside Bay Area) - SIMILAR to a stint in the Peace Corps, parenting is the hardest job you'll ever (but not always) love. Sometimes it seems wonderful, a piece of cake.

Satire: 47 percent of satellites currently monitoring celebrity parenting (CNET) - High-tech satellites allow gossip columnists to analyze celebrity parenting and pregnancies with never-before-seen detail. From The Onion

BARING IT ALL: Breast on parenting magazine cover gets mixed reaction (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) - NEW YORK (AP) -- "I was SHOCKED to see a giant breast on the cover of your magazine," one person wrote. "I immediately turned the magazine face down," wrote another. "Gross," said a third.

Leader: Parenting (Guardian Unlimited) - Guardian leader: Even the most devoted of parents would accept that there are moments when bringing up children is hard work, sometimes boring, and its rewards a mirage.

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.

Magazine Cover Swells Breast-Feeding Controversy (Local6.com Central Florida) - A parenting magazine draws fire for an image of a baby having a meal.

'Breast' Magazine Cover Gets Mixed Reaction (CBS 13 Sacramento) - "I was SHOCKED to see a giant breast on the cover of your magazine," one person wrote. "I immediately turned the magazine face down," wrote another. "Gross," said a third. These readers weren't complaining about a sexually explicit cover, but rather one of a baby nursing, on a wholesome parenting magazine.

Friday July 28, 2006 By Simon Collins (The New Zealand Herald) - On benefit days, mothers attending the parenting course at Rotorua's Apumoana Marae used to turn up with a supermarket pottle of savoury mince for lunch.

Controversy Latches On To Mag's Nursing Pic (News4Jax.com) - Readers complain about a parenting magazine's close-up of a breast-feeding baby.

Dr Porter on her way to Gulgong (Mudgee Guardian) - She's no super nanny, but families in the Orana Far West will have the opportunity to hear about the latest parenting strategies from veteran early childhood expert, Dr Louise Porter, when a regional tour kicks off next week.