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Parenting classes offered in Vacaville (The Reporter) - The Vacaville Police Department and Vacaville Public Library at Town Square will team up to provide parenting classes beginning Sept. 12. The 7-week course is a no-nonsense approach to raising even the most difficult children. The program will also address parenting the child who is ADD/ADHD.

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.”

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.

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.

Youth crime and consequences: Experts blame violence on desensitization, mass media, or poor parenting (The Halifax Daily News) - From gangland-style killings in Vancouver to the senseless beating of an elderly woman in Halifax, Canadian cities are struggling with a wave of youth and random violence.

Toy recalls add to pitfalls of parenting (Bradenton Herald) - A licia Barlow remembers a childhood of playing in her friend's tree fort that was full of rotting wood and rusty nails. No one ever gave the septic setting a second thought when it came to playtime.

Program helps 500 low-income parents (Daily Herald) - Ashlee Keating and her fiance, Emmanuel Carrillo, didn't make a lot of money and didn't know much about parenting when Keating became pregnant last year. They were worried about their unborn child's future.

Kids lose out when dad works long hours (Sydney Morning Herald) - EMPLOYERS should help fathers leave work early to spend quality time with their children, a parenting expert says.

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.