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Urlacher Ordered To Attend Parenting Class (NBC 5 Chicago) - Bears' linebacker Brian Urlacher was back in court on Tuesday, NBC5 reported. Urlacher resumed his battle over visitation of his 2-year-old son. The court announced that neither Urlacher nor his son's mother, Tyna Robertson have attended a court-ordered parenting class.

Courts disregard ‘tender years’ doctrine over shared parenting (The Abbotsford News) - The early childhood years can often create frustrating challenges for even the most loving and committed parents. In legal parlance these early years of childhood were known as a child’s “tender years,” around which a gender-based doctrine of preferential parenting developed.

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.”

Lecture to offer parenting strategies (Island Packet) - Friends of the Children's Hospital will have a lunch and an informative lecture on "Back to School Special: A+ Parenting Strategies for Today's Kids" at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday at Wexford Plantation Country Club on Hilton Head Island.

Emap to launch parenting portal (Mad.co.uk) - Emap Esprit, the parenting and well-being division, is gearing up to launch a new online parenting portal to support its parenting and pregnancy titles Mother and Baby and Pregnancy & Birth.

Parenting 101 (Detroit News) - Reach out: If your child-free friend seems to be hanging back a little, it may be because she's not sure where she fits into your new life. So figure it out together. Invite her to dinner or out to the park. Encourage her to drop by during the baby's naptime. Tell her you know things have changed but that you still want her around.

Stay-At-Home Parenting: How to Juggle the Responsibilities (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) - Stay-at-home parenting can become overwhelming by its seemingly endless challenges when it comes to juggling the needs of individual family members. While there is a steady upward trend of dads or moms taking the role as the primary caregiver, it is critical to ensure that this role reversal is a positive experience.

Parenting: Brothers in conflict can learn new skills (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - My husband and I will let you settle this disagreement. When brothers age 4 and 5 fight, should parents step in or let them work it out? ...

Popular New Videos (Teen Hollywood) - Like This Kelly Rowland feat. Eve Home > News > Lohan's Mom Blasts Foster For Lindsay Commen... Lindsay Lohan's mother Dina has hit back at Jodie Foster for criticising her parenting skills, insisting the actress has no right to comment on her family situation without knowing all the facts.

Lindsay Mitchell: Neither child nor mother's place should be restricted to the home (The New Zealand Herald) - Bob McCoskrie argues that full-time parenting is a child's right, so no parent should be forced to work to survive financially. The same argument was probably put in the seventies when politicians were considering what to do about the growing number of unpartnered mothers.