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By Mutryce A Williams Navigating "Island" Parenting is a submission of quotes, tips and parenting advice that I have gathered over the years as a source of inspiration and as tools to deal with the daily challenges of parenting.

At 23 years old, Krystal Dyer doesn't know what she wants to be when she "grows up", but she still has time to figure that out.

Christmastime is here, and it means something different to everyone. For some , Christmas is about celebrating the birth of Jesus.

A Foster Parenting Information Night will be held this Thursday at the Human Service Center, second floor conference room, on Highway 310 in Canton.

There's a new hero for our time, whose adventures rival those of Harry Potter and who uses his imagination and intelligence to solve problems such as how to bring a school bully back from the Triassic period after he tampers with our hero's time machine.

My husband is Belgian and we have three children, aged 13, 11 and nine. I'm interested in hearing your opinion regarding sleepovers? Thirdly, I'm afraid my children will come home feeling shattered by a lack of sleep, crap food and an overdose of computer games! What do you think about sleepovers? I think sleepovers can be great fun for children ... (more)

The first episode of Chinese Super Nanny features a family in Shanghai with working parents and two young daughters.

On tonight's episode of Love & Hip Hop , Saigon steps up and admits that he was dead wrong to come at Erica Jean and criticize her parenting.

Girls Rock Austin, the local branch of a much-lauded national summer camp program devoted to empowering female tweens and teens through music immersion , has been well-publicized and celebrated in Austin media.

As the holidays approach with gusto every year, I struggle with how to teach my children to climb down from Santa's lap and think about others for a change.

JULY 07: Jenni Rivera performs at 2010 Lilith Fair at Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre on July 7, 2010 in San Diego, California.

Special to the Courier A CASA volunteer is needed for 15-year-old "Delia" and her 13-year-old brother, "Colby."

Parents worldwide often experience a range of emotions when their child is first diagnosed with autism , including shock, sadness and grief, anger, and loneliness.

As we discussed in the previous blog, one way of dealing with those who hurt us is to forgive them, and another way of dealing with them is murder.

He's the toddler who always bites. She's the 6-year-old drama queen prone to "it's mine" fits and hair-pulling.

My husband and I put off the kids' dog requests for years. The yard isn't fenced.

A psychotherapist recently wrote a column on Slate called " Why Millennials Can't Grow Up ."

Amy sat in my office and wiped her streaming tears on her sleeve, refusing the scratchy tissues I'd offered.

Parents no longer look at their children's elementary school principals and only wonder if they will hold teachers academically accountable or react swiftly to a bullying incident.

'The Stories of Frederick Busch'' deserves to place this "writer's writer" in the more widely read company of short-story masters like Raymond Carver and Richard Ford, with whom he is often compared.