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		<title>The Snowball Effect: When Laziness Can Trump Ambition</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christine Carter, Ph.D.www.raisinghappiness.com My best advice for keeping New Year’s resolutions this year—based on decades of multi-disciplinary research and years of personal experience—is to be decidedly unambitious about it. I’m not suggesting you should avoid failure by not making resolutions this year.  Just that we are better able to make changes over the long-term when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be the Anti-Bully: There’s No Such Thing as an Innocent Bystander</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 22:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jerry Weichman, Ph.D.www.drjerryweichman.com In case you haven’t heard, bullying is a hot topic this school year.  It is likely you have already sat through a bullying awareness assembly at school, seen your favorite celeb blog about standing up to bullies, or have read about another tragic teen suicide triggered in part by bullying.  And if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>8 Ways to Get Your Family to Help You Around the House</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mia Redrickwww.findingdefinitions.com We’ll start with the good news. The United States is tied for number 1 with Norway for equal division of household chores between men and women. According to the Journal of Marriage and Family, men contribute 46% of the United State’s household chores. The bad news is that housework never ends. Here’s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Mistakes Connected Parents Make</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bonnie Harriswww.bonnieharris.com Parents are attracted to Connective Parenting because it makes sense. Its foundation is in relationship. Its approach is raising truly responsible, respectful human beings without punishment or blame. As with all endeavors, connected parents make mistakes. Here are the top 5: 1. Not being firm enoughMany connected parents tend to put their children’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Truth About Family Dinners</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 02:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Polly Dunnwww.ChildPsychMom.com Earlier this year I happened upon an article by a respected family psychologist and parenting expert.  In it, he provided lots of ideas on how parents could improve their family life, a number of which I completely agreed with.  But then I got to his recommendation about family dinners.  He suggested that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Safety Concerns on Uploading Smartphone Photos of Your Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 14:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Video Clip: Smartphone picture uploads can reveal the location of your children&#8217;s home, school, and play areas. What you need to know to keep your children safe. Source: NBC News, Kansas City]]></description>
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		<title>The Benefits of Negative Thinking</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kirk Wilkinson www.thehappinessfactor.com No doubt you have heard how dangerous negative thinking is. Negative thinking has been blamed for all kinds of illnesses, like depression, anxiety, cancer and diabetes. Bad thoughts are also responsible for many ruined relationships and cases of drug abuse. But if negative thinking is so bad, why do we all practice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Can’t Right Now, I Have To Work:  Playing With the Kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don Harrold www.practicaldad.com As kids grow and the schedule tightens, it’s easy to say ‘no’ to a child who wants to play.  There is a long list of items to be checked off in a finite period of time and that leaves little room for messing around.  But the reality is that playing with your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What are Multiple Intelligences?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maria Chesley Fisk, Ph.D. www.ThinkParenting.com There are lots of ways to be smart!&#160; We need a range of abilities—analytical, creative, social &#38; emotional, and practical—and the motivation to use them.&#160; Yes, we are probably born with tendencies toward particular strengths and thinking styles in these areas, but all of them are affected by what we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inside Your Wife’s Head: Defragging the Hard Drive</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don Harrold www.practicaldad.com She’s not as playful as before the kids’ arrival.  Perhaps she’s more curt and distracted and it seems harder to engage in the same conversations that you had when it was just the two of you.  You look at her and wonder, what’s going on inside her head?  If you want to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spring is Right Around the Corner: How to Prepare Your Grill</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:18:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Kuntz www.thepelletbbqgriller.com As the average household budget continues to shrink, statistics show less people are eating out. More people are staying home and practicing the age-old culinary art of barbecue and grilling. As the warm weather arrives, grilling can be one of the most enjoyable and affordable ways to feed your family. It is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Steps to a Calmer Evening</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Erin Kurt, B.Ed. www.erinparenting.com Whether you work outside the house or stay at home full-time, the toughest part of the day is the same: those frantic early evening hours when there are mouths to feed, homework to do, and cranky kids to handle. The trick is to streamline your to-do&#8217;s so you can feel calmer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Punch That Parents Don’t See</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vaughn Alaine-Marshall www.uberstarthebook.com The job of nurturing an impressionable mind has always been a challenge. The once gradual ascent into adulthood is now a sharp rise. Every single day parents in America are confronted with the task of monitoring their child’s influences. New technologies, social crazes and information portals emerge on a monthly basis, making [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Ways to Save Big on Baby Gear</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sandra Gordon www.babyproductsmom.com Baby products are an 8.9 billion dollar industry in this country. There’s a lot to choose from—and a lot of stuff you can live without. A typical middle-income family with one child in the U.S. will spend an average of $13,590 on baby’s first year alone. But you get better value, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bully in Pigtails: Girls &amp; Bullying</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Erik Fisher, PhD, AKA Dr. E www.erikfisher.com I think we all have begun to see a disturbing trend in recent years. More and more often we are seeing girls bullying girls, but not like it used to be. Historically, girls have not been immune to bullying, but the way they approached it was through [...]]]></description>
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