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Crowe stars in good parenting DVD (Stuff) - Hollywood actor Russell Crowe, who was once arrested for throwing a phone in a hotel lobby, stars in a new good-parenting DVD.

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.”

Positive parenting skills from supermoms (The Nassau Guardian) - Try as we might, some kids probably require new approaches to parenting, particularly if the old tried and tested methods are not working. Recently the magazine Parent & Child carried an article by Gail Reichlin on positive parenting skills.

Author takes us inside the 'Teachers' Lounge' (USA Today) - In his first book, Daddy Needs a Drink (2006), author Robert Wilder offered a comic, slightly R-rated memoir of parenting. In his new book, Tales From the Teachers' Lounge(Delacorte, $23), Wilder, a longtime English teacher, reflects in similar fashion on his 18 years of teaching most of them at Santa Fe Preparatory School, a private day school in New Mexico's capital.

Parenting, Dad-style (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) - Sometimes fathers must take on the role of "Dr. Dad."

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.

Parenting tip of the week (Savannah Morning News) - As your baby grows, so does his or her curiosity. Parents must have an understanding of how to control their growing child's environment. Providing safe surroundings while still encouraging your baby to be adventurous and explore can be a challenge. Some ways to keep your children safe include using safety gates to keep them in a designated area. This also teaches your baby to respect ...

Brad Pitt speaks of parenting joy (BBC News) - Hollywood actor Brad Pitt describes bringing up his four children as "the most fun I've ever had".

Letters are the stars of PBS's 'Word World' (Boston Globe) - PBS has been using viral marketing wisely when it comes to "Word World," the new prechoolers' reading show that premieres today. Advance DVDs have trickled through a network of parenting bloggers, and many of them have been gushing online. One blogger raved that after watching the show, her young son proudly reported that he had pooped an "L."

Parenting: 'Media and Your Kids' (Pioneer Press) - Research by pediatrician Dimitri Christakis has linked TV watching by toddlers to short attention spans in preschool. The author of "The Elephant in Your Living Room: How to Make Television Work for Your Family" is one of two nationally known experts keynoting a Sept. 15 symposium for parents called "Media and Your Kids." The other is David Walsh, president of the National Institute on Media and ...