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Group helps provide parenting class (Winston County Journal) - With the belief that the failure of the family is one of the reasons children get into trouble in the world, Faith Beyond Walls Outreach Ministry recently wrapped up a 6 session parenting class.

‘Positive and Practical Parenting’ (The Petersburg Progress-Index) - PETERSBURG — Positive and Practical Parenting is an 8 weeks session (16-hours) for parents, grandparents, childcare providers and anyone needing help with parenting and communication skills. Information focuses on pre-school children, primary, elementary school-aged children and teens.

More Grandparents Parenting All Over Again For Grandkids (FOX 4 News Kansas City) - The Kenyon Brock case is a reminder that lots of grandparents are raising their grandkids. According to the AARP, one out of 12 kids are now being raised by a grandparent or other relative. The reasons vary from parents in the military to parents in jail, but the growing reality is that many grandparents find themselves parenting all over again.

Government Children's Plan encourages teachers to take on parenting duties (Guardian Unlimited) - Parenting skills are on a "downward spiral" forcing schools to bring up the next generation of adults, a teachers' union official claims

Assault father's parenting course (BBC News) - A father who assaulted his seven-year-old son by slapping him is told to complete a parenting course.

RealSavvyMoms.com Announces the Launch of Educational Parenting Webcasts. (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) - RealSavvyMoms.com and Infant's Mylicon will host a webcast on "common infant feeding problems" featuring noted pediatric gastroenterologist and book author Dr. Bryan Vartabedian. He'll share his expert advice and answer viewer questions -- live August 4, 2008!

Great kids need great parents (Guyra Argus) - Parenting can be the most rewarding role of your life. It can also be the most challenging and yet there is little provided to prepare for this awesome task.

Is Your Child Scared of School? Parenting Tips from Dr. Vicki Folds of Children of America Educational Childcare Centers (PRWeb via Yahoo! News) - Parenting tips to ease apprehension on first day of school from renowned childcare expert Vicki Folds, Ed.D. of Children of America Educational Childcare Centers

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.

Skinned Robo Teddy will Instill a Healthy Fear of Robots in Your Kid [Parenting] (Gizmodo) - One of the great joys of parenting, as I understand it, is being handed a malleable lump of proto-humanity that sees you as some kind of god, absorbing everything you do and say as a lifelong lesson....