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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.”

Parenting Tips For Raising Children (KOLR/KSFX Ozarks) - Raising your baby to be a well-mannered productive adult can keep parents up well into the night. In tonight's You and Improved, News at Nine's Anne Dill helps us through the parenting "P's and Q's".

McCanns' parenting defended (BBC News) - Friends of the mother of Madeleine McCann defend her against suggestions she was involved in the disappearance.

Teen issues (The Virginia Gazette) - "I find it funny that the writer responding to the problems of raising a 17-year-old blamed everyone and everything except the parenting skills. Talk about not accepting personal responsibility.

Parenting by Marilyn Heins : Mother shouldn't bully her picky son into eating (Arizona Daily Star) - Q: My college-educated daughter makes her 5-year-old son choose between a spanking or eating his evening meal. If he doesn't eat, doesn't like what she fixes or whatever, he is spanked. My grandson's eating habits remind me a lot of my own son when he was small. He was a very picky eater. I let my son's pickiness run its course, and as an adult he grew to like a lot of different things. Also in ...

When I Was Britney Spears (Blogcritics.org) - My local community brought down the gavel on my parenting skills. Had that community been as large as Ms. Spears’, I’d have surely perished. I was never as pretty or as talented a singer as Britney Spears, but in 1987, when I was 25, I was a young mother of two children under two years of age. I was married to a man who would shortly announce he no longer wanted to be a husband or father. He ...

Revival weekend focuses on faith, missionary work, marriage and parenting (Eagle-Tribune Online) - Christ Church , 25 Central St., Andover: A six-week Bible study and prayer group using the book "Listening for God" starts Sept. 19, 10 a.m. The book features essays by Alice Walker, Garrison Keilor and Richard Rodriguez.

Meet the 2007-08 High School Round Table (Louisville Courier-Journal) - There's a lot of discussion in parenting circles about how to deal with "self-centered teens." But the 210 applications we received for The Courier-Journal's 2007-08 High School Round Table reveal there are many local teens who care deeply for their families, volunteer in their communities and churches, and are alert to global issues. Twelve panelists were selected from the public, private, ...

Daddy exam quizzes Japan's men on potties, parenting (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - "Who played the father in the movie 'Kramer versus Kramer'?"

King of California (2007) (New York Times) - Michael Douglas in Mike Cahill’s film “King of California.” It is tempting to think of “King of California,” a serious comedy that does many things right, as a sequel of sorts to “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”