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Flip Video captures precious moments before they pass

To help capture those precious moments before they pass, Flip Video, the world’s first point-and-shoot camcorder, is perfect to help parents savour and remember each milestone - from that first step to the full-toothed grin. Flip Video has built-in software and a flip-out USB arm, which means that you can immediately upload your videos to social media sites or send them to friends and relatives via email. It’s is also ideal to help capture ... [more]

Ignoring parenting experts may be best for your child

A new edition of Paranoid Parenting by Frank Furedi, Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent, calls for parents to ignore the policymakers and 'parenting experts', and to regain a viewpoint that advances children's wellbeing. First published by Continuum Books in 2001, Paranoid Parenting: Why Ignoring the Experts May be Best for Your Child turned the spotlight on a society where children are deemed at risk from an ever expanding range... [more]

Looking for the Charmin Family of the Year 2008

Charmin wants to hear from families who love spending fun, quality time together as it searches for the ‘Charmin Family of the Year 2008’. There are some fantastic prizes up for grabs and for every entry received, Charmin will be donating £1 to children’s charity Barnardo’s to help fund their work with children and their families across the UK. Sheree Murphy, well-known TV actress and busy mum of three, has just signed up to the judging panel ... [more]

Parental Advisory Manual, the alternative parenting book

Natasha Desborough, broadcaster and mother of two young boys, thinks many parenting books are not useful. She says: ‘They’re written by smug perfect parents, callous childless nannies and worst of all – celebrity mothers!’ Natasha has created her own alternative manual, which has already become a hit with listeners of her BBC Weekend Breakfast Show. With the help of any army of ‘real’ parents, and a wealth of stories from the trenches, the P... [more]

Kidspoints helps parents incentivise and provide positive reinforcement for their kids

Kidspoints is a reward system for kids and parents available online and via the mobile phone. A new fun and free ‘positive parenting’ tool, Kidspoints recreates the popular concept of reward wall charts online that offer a helping hand to parents and fit in with today’s busy family lifestyle. Kidspoints offers parents a personalized environment to incentivise and provide positive reinforcement for their kids on tasks and general behaviour, as... [more]

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Rape suspect says claims are result of stern parenting (The Houma Courier) HOUMA - A 34-year-old local man on trial for allegedly molesting and raping his live-in girlfriend's young daughter told a judge the girl contrived the claims to retaliate for his strict parenting.

Parenting series to be held at TCC (The Times-Reporter) The Saints Club of Tuscarawas Central Catholic High at New Philadelphia will sponsor another “Parenting in the Third Millennium” speaker Sunday at 7 in the high school at 777 3rd St. NE.

Reese Witherspoon - Parenting Comes First For Witherspoon And Phillippe (ContactMusic) REESE WITHERSPOON has heaped praise on her ex-husband RYAN PHILLIPPE - because he's a great dad. The actress split from Phillippe in 2007 but admits the former couple ...

Parenting educator offers reassurance, reality (Wilton Bulletin) The challenging title of Debra Haffner’s talk at Trackside last Tuesday morning, Nov. 11, “Parenting In the 21st Century,” drew a roomful of moms and a couple of dads, who were congratulated by Ms. Haffner for attending.

Kay Goldstein: The Parenting Path: Travel with Care (HuffingtonPost) In a recent meditation class, a parent brought up how he was undergoing a great deal of external stress, finding it hard to support the busy and challenging level of activities of their teenager.

Readers offer solutions to family violence epidemic (The New Zealand Herald) Compulsory Plunket visits, Parenting education and media campaigns are just some of the ideas to combat family violence put forward by nzherald.co.nz readers.

Livia Web Protection Awarded The National Parenting Center's Seal of Approval (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) class Web filtering and Web security for the home

Car seat and child safety to be topics of parenting class (Sweetwater Reporter) Sweetwater Emergency Services Director, Grant madden will be this month's speaker during a parenting class sponsored by the Women's Resource Center of Sweetwater. Madden will speak on car seat installation and basic child safety.

Datebook (The Acorn) THURS., NOV. 20 Fifth Annual Holiday Boutique From 9 a.m. to 1 p.m . today and Friday at Horizon Hills campus, 33 Greta St., Thousand Oaks. 35 vendors sell unique, personalized items. Proceeds support nonprofit Conejo Valley Adult Education Parenting Program.

Beyond rescue (Salon.com) As his book "Why We Suck" hits the shelves, Denis Leary talks about lazy parenting, the media storm surrounding his views on autism, and the omnipotence of Oprah.