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Talk focuses on parenting services (Cambridge Chronicle & Cambridge Tab) - PARENTS FORUM will welcome Kathleen Dennehy, former commissioner of corrections for the commonwealth, Friday, Aug. 1, from 8:30 to 10 a.m. to speak on parenting services at a the Respect for Parents Day breakfast at 99 Bishop Allen Drive in Central Square.

Jen Singer's You're a Good Mom hands out levity with parenting tips (The Kansas City Star) - Take Erma Bombeck-style humor and mix it with some solid parenting advice, and you get You’re a Good Mom (and Your Kids Aren’t So Bad Either) , the latest laugh-out-loud contribution to parental guidance written by Jen Singer. Singer leads us on a quest to find the happy medium between “super” mom and “slacker” mom. If this mother of two who just triumphed over cancer can be this funny, the rest ...

Sports parenting encyclopedia offers advice on using athletics to instill values (The Providence Journal) - Considering a transfer when his high school basketball career wasn�t going as planned, Dan Doyle received some invaluable advice from Lester �Buster” Sheary, one of New England�s all-time great college basketball coaches.

Cancer warning adds wrinkle to parenting (The Globe and Mail) - Risk means limiting cellphone use, because when it comes to children, their brains are still developing

Cancer warning adds wrinkle to parenting debate (AP via Yahoo! News) - When Amy Morris' twin boys, then 11, went on an academic trip to Washington last year, she agreed to give them cell phones at the program's request. But this summer she was dismayed to learn that girls at her 8-year-old daughter's day camp were using cell phones they'd taken along in their backpacks.

Five Parenting Pointers to Help Provide Your Baby with a Head Start in Life (Richfield Reaper) - (ARA) - If you are like many new parents out there, there's nothing you wouldn't do to provide your baby with the best start in life. Time, effort, expense -- no matter what it takes, you are committed to allowing nothing to stand in your child's way.

ON THE AIR (Winston-Salem Journal) - Take a look at the multitude of JournalNow Blogs, including reports from NASCAR reporter Mike Mulhern, parenting advice from Paul Garber, and cooking tips from food editor Michael Hastings and restaurant critic Laura Giovanelli.

Cancer Warning Adds Wrinkle to Parenting Debate (ABC 2 Baltimore) - A warning from the director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute has struck a nerve among some parents.

When does parenting end? Or does it? (Press & Sun-Bulletin) - Last Wednesday's Life section carried a story on baby boomer parents who fear they've crippled their grown children by showering them with love and support. The story contained a question I can't seem to get out of my mind.

Day Care Owner Sentenced For Not Reporting Missing Girl (KGTV San Diego) - An Oceanside day care operator who failed to report a 3-year-old girl missing for almost nine hours was sentenced Monday to probation and ordered to take a yearlong parenting class.