>Facebook has many asking who their real friends are. Even parents make “friends” of people they don’t know, for various reasons. Sound familiar? A few months ago we talked about social networking for kids and the security issues raised. The focus then was on MySpace, but the issues are the same.

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The Broward County school board is looking at changing boundaries. This could have an impact on where your child goes to school. “School Board members and district officials say they understand parents' frustrations, but the district has little choice: New state growth management rules require schools to keep their populations at 110 percent of capacity. The district also must meet state class size requirements.”

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From last weekend, by Nick Sortal: Here's an interesting exercise if you're a sports parent.

The new book, Positive Sports Parenting: How "Second-Goal" Parents Raise Winners in Life Through Sports (Balance Sports Publishing; $8.95), suggests you sit down with your child with two sheets of paper. Then look at a list of goal categories (which includes everything from "learn teamwork" to "physical fitness" to "have fun") and distribute 100 points based on the degree of importance of each.

You do one, your child does another and then you discuss.

Not so surprisingly, parents too often emphasize categories such as "win" and "earn a college scholarship," while children value "have fun."

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And one from yesterday by Cindy Kent.

Jereann Shafir Zann is director of Score at the Top Learning Center in Boca Raton. She launched her career working for a private hospital and nonprofit organizations. Marketing, fundraising and development responsibilities prepped her for work in the entrepreneurial world, she said.

Her job is to make the community aware of Score's services: tutoring, test preparation, home schooling and learning camps. The learning center is accredited for grades pre-kindergarten through 12th and can grant a high-school diploma and give courses for credit through 12th grade.