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FREE PARENTING (The Thomaston Times) - Starting Sept. 5, and going through Oct. 2, Tuesdays, from noon until 2 p.m., all parents and caretakers are invited to a great free parenting program at the Parent Center located at 300 Adams Street, that will help them use their heads as well as their hearts in raising their children.

Russell Crowe stars in parenting DVD (The Arizona Republic) - Russell Crowe stars in a new good-parenting DVD. The 'Gladiator' actor features on 'Raising Children,' which has been made by the Australian Government to educate parents on bringing up their children.

Jeremiah Murphy: The payoffs of parenting worth the wait (Rapid City Journal) - Kevin Woster asked me to write a monthly column for the Journal about, among other things, parenting. I thought, “What I know about parenting would fit on the back of a matchbook cover.”

Pride event on parenting (Home News Tribune) - NORTH BRUNSWICK — TWO OF THE nation's leading experts on parenting options for gays and lesbians will host a special "how to" parenting event at the Pride Center of New Jersey on Wednesday evening, September 19, 2007 from 7-9 p.m.

Mother ordered to parenting classes (WWMT 3 Kalamazoo) - GRAND RAPIDS (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - In mid-July 3-year-old Jeremiah Matthews drowned in a neighbors pool in Grand Rapids. Neighbors say that Jeremiah's mother, Melissa was prone to let the child roam unattended.

Golden Father, Son Share Popular Parenting Lessons (CBS4 Denver) - Jim Fay and his son Dr. Charles Fay are teaching parents a new way to raise their children, from their Love and Logic Institute in Golden.

Dealing With Queen Bee Moms and Kingpin Dads: Best-selling Author, Parenting Expert to Visit Hawken (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News) - Rosalind Wiseman, the cofounder of the Empower Program, a nonprofit organization that empowers youth to stop violence, will bring to Hawken's Upper School campus in Chesterland on Tuesday, September 11, her expertise on how to survive what she calls "Perfect Parent World" and its parallel adolescent world rife with queen bees, kingpins and wannabes.

TV parenting guru quits in protest at 'car-crash telly' childcare programmes (Daily Mail) - One of the first TV parenting gurus has vowed to stop making programmes because child-rearing shows have become 'car crash' television. Dr Tanya Byron warned that a growing industry in parenting programmes risked exploiting troubled families for entertainment

Editorial: Placing top value on parenting (The New Zealand Herald) - Few taxpayers will disagree with the proposal from the Families Commission that paid parental leave should be extended from the present 14 weeks to one year.

Managing money (The Star Online) - Television shows like MTV’s My Super Sweet 16, a programme chronicling the young and wealthy vying to hold the flashiest birthday parties, has created new parenting problems – extravagance.