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Mom, Dad, stop your crying -- you can hire a parenting coach (San Francisco Chronicle) - Claire and Liam Donohue are smiley 8-month-old twins with the chubby cheeks of good eaters and dark thatches of hair atop their round heads. They share a peaceful nursery with pale yellow curtains and end-to-end cribs in San Francisco's quiet Sunset District...

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.

Advice by Marilyn Heins, M.D. : Parenting Allow children time to master their fears (Arizona Daily Star) - Q My not-quite-3-year-old son has become terrified of dogs. When we are walking, he screams if he sees a dog a mile away, and he wants me to carry him.

Parenting by John Rosemond (Duluth News Tribune) - Most parents instinctively love their children, even after they hit their 'terrible 2' stage

This week's question (San Francisco Chronicle) - This week's question: Is outsourcing aspects of parenting a good or bad thing for the health of the American family? Neither. Whatever it takes to cope in today's busy world. If it helps, it's good. If you can't raise 'em, don't...

Warm-Wipe Parenting (CBS News) - The National Review Online draws the line at using a baby "wipe warmer," a silly apparatus claims to "take the jolt out" of wiping a baby's undercarriage by warming the moist "baby wipes" to a more balmy temperature.

Natural parenting has believers in Madison area (Wisconsin State Journal) - In America, we have a penchant for labels, and how one parents is no exception. There are do-it-all "Soccer Moms" with their minivans, SUVs and jam-packed schedules.

Dave Bakke Column (The State Journal-Register) - Do American youths have too much freedom and too much autonomy over their lives? Writing in the August issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry, Dr. Khurshid A. Khurshid uses his experience in Springfield as a springboard to a provocative commentary on American culture, freedom and parenting.

Texas Reads: Authors explore life lessons (The Bryan-College Station Eagle) - In Pinocchio Parenting: 21 Outrageous Lies We Tell Our Kids (Simon & Schuster, $17.95 hardcover), Dallas author Dr. Chuck Borsellino says parents are dishonest with their offspring in well-intentioned or even unintentional ways. Borsellino, a psychologist and parent, discusses one "lie" per chapter and includes a more truthful way of making the same point.

CLASSES (The Pueblo Chieftain) - Lynn Stanley of Associates for Psychotherapy, 924 Indiana Ave., will lead a class on cooperative parenting at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. The two-part class is intended to help parents who are divorced or are divorcing learn how to parent in the best way for their children. For information and registration, call 564-9039. * * * The Alzheimer's Association's caregiver support group will