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Positive parenting helps encourage healthy sun habits in children (EurekAlert!) - A program that helps parents talk to their children about skin cancer risks may promote sun-safe behaviors, especially when parents and children have a high-quality relationship, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of Dermatology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

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...

Dr. Yvonne Lamar column: She may be baby sister, but she’s not a baby 08-21-2006 (Plainview Daily Herald) - Being the youngest of seven children comes with many advantages and disadvantages. The biggest advantage was years of very mellow parenting. Over the years, my parents had mastered the psychological aspects of child-rearing. There was very little need for yelling or spanking.

A Welfare Law Milestone Finds Many Left Behind (New York Times) - Researchers are raising concerns about families that have not made the transition through welfare reform and often lead extraordinarily precarious lives.

SPI won't cost us federal funds (Bismarck Tribune) - Duane Houdek, a lawyer working in Gov. John Hoeven’s office, recently told the chairman of the North Dakota Shared Parenting Initiative that the initiative would put North Dakota child support guidelines out of compliance with federal standards, something that would in turn cause North Dakota to lose some $70 million in federal funding.

Conference focuses on gifted kids (Hattiesburg American) - The Frances A. Karnes Center for Gifted Studies at the University of Southern Mississippi will hold its annual Parenting Gifted Children Conference on Sept. 16.

Courts shouldn’t pick a winner (Bismarck Tribune) - In the Aug. 13 Bismarck Tribune, columnist and former Lt. Gov. Lloyd Omdahl treated the citizens of North Dakota to another round of his negative opinion of the Shared Parenting Initiative, insulting more than 17,000 citizens of the state in the process.

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