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Foster Parenting: Is it for you?, Part 2: What few single men dare to do (South Bend Tribune) - FOSTER PARENTING: IS IT FOR YOU? SOUTH BEND -- The surfaces in county Auditor Mike Eby's office are as immaculate and neat as a ledger sheet, which makes it all the more glaring to see a model of Jabba the Hut as big as a computer there.

Hasbro to Publish First Line of PLAYSKOOL Parenting Guides (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) - PAWTUCKET, R.I.----Sept. 5, 2006--Hasbro Properties Group , the intellectual property development arm of Hasbro, Inc. , has signed a multi-year agreement with Sourcebooks, Inc., a Naperville, IL publishing house, to develop and publish a series of 20 PLAYSKOOL-branded solutions based parenting guides for both new and experienced mothers.

Foster parenting: Is it for you?, Part 1: Single mother welcomes five children to her home (South Bend Tribune) - FOSTER PARENTING: IS IT FOR YOU? MISHAWAKA -- Single motherhood heaped enough on the frying pan of life for 34-year-old Tammy Quast.

Parenting: Taking off, and landing with toddler (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - Q. This fall we'll be taking our almost-3-year-old on his first airplane trip. What's the best way to get him set so he'll like it?

Parenting help for dads (Merredin Wheatbelt Mercury) - DADS of young children living in the Wheatbelt are being invited to learn how they can be the best dad they can be at a community videoconference on Wednesday, September 13.

10-year-old finds her pet cause: parenting (The Flint Journal) - SWARTZ CREEK - Pet lovers such as Brooke Katich are a rare breed. At age 10, Brooke, of Swartz Creek was told she was too young to volunteer at any of the local animal shelters or veterinarian clinics.

Wednesday September 6, 2006 By Chris Barton (The New Zealand Herald) - Mothers get the majority of day-to-day care of children in parenting orders made by the Family Court, but new statistics indicate that's the way most parents want it.

Campaign offers parents a helping hand (NZZ) - A nationwide scheme has been launched to encourage Swiss parents to seek professional help if they have difficulty raising their children. The Swiss Federation for Parent Education wants to raise awareness among mothers and fathers that parenting skills are not innate, but must be learnt.

Bankrolling responsibility (South Bend Tribune) - Dee Hodgson of St. Joseph was ready to buy a jar of jelly from a farmers market recently when she became a victim of her own good parenting. A little low on cash, she asked her daughter, Maddie, 5 1/2, for a short-term loan.

Isabel Kallman: Motherhood: Beyond Martyr and Monster (HuffingtonPost) - More and more I seem to be referred to as "The Alpha Mom." That's because I co-founded a company and was the subject of an infamous article that ran last year, both of the same name. I'm Isabel Kallman: mother to Ryland, wife to Craig, daughter to Maria and Carlos, sister to Carla, and CEO of Alpha Mom. True, I am also an unapologetically ambitious business woman, but that does not mean that