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Briefs: Parenting talk slated (Daily Herald) - Naperville Central High School's Home and School organization is sponsoring a "Parenting in the Millennium" talk featuring adolescent psychiatrist Michael Feld from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday in the school's Little Theatre at 440 W. Aurora Ave., Naperville.

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".

Around our Schools (Pasadena Star-News) - ARCADIA - The Arcadia Unified School District will offer its free P.A.T.H. parenting classes beginning Thursday through Oct. 18. Parents Are The Heart of Success aims to teach parents how to feel more confident parenting, have more fun with their children and feel more relaxed at the end of the day.

Harnett board approves grant to fight teen pregnancy (The Fayetteville Observer) - What happened: The board agreed unanimously to give the Harnett County Center of the N.C. Cooperative Extension permission to accept a nearly $48,000 grant from the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services to support an adolescent parenting program.

ProfNet Wire: Health & Living: Food Safety (Newswise) - 1) Book Publishing: Backstory of OJ Simpson's 'Confession' Book; 2) Food Safety: Dangers of Genetically Modified Organisms; 3) Health: Men's Prostate Cancer Testing; 4) Parenting: Older Couples Choosing Surrogates to Have Their Children; 5) Pediatrics: Lyme Disease and Kids.

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.

Monday's Our View: Size matters (Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil) - Britney Spears may be offensive on so many levels, including parenting, but for someone - anyone - to call her "fat" is dumbfounding. Yet, that seemed to be the loudest statement made after the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards where Spears was a featured performer.

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

Is Britney close to losing kids' custody? (ANI via Yahoo! India News) - Melbourne, Sept 17 (ANI): Britney Spears is reportedly close to losing the custody of her two kids, after a Los Angeles attorney brought up a secret witness who has dished out accounts of her behaviour with her kids. The man, who has observed the singer's parenting skills, will appear at the closed door hearing of the custody battle between Spears and her ex-hubby Kevin Federline. Last ...