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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 understand, think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Raise A Loving Not Manipulative Child</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:18:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Lynne Kenney</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[moral kids]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all wish to raise ethical, loving children. Some of our kids are active, others are shy, still others learn to manipulate rather than being straight-forward. Kids who learn to manipulate in youth carry those patterns into adulthood. So now is the time to teach your child healthy relationship skills. Here are some tips to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Ways to Tell If Your Ego Is Hurting Your Parenting</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Haller and Chick Moorman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1.  Who&#8217;s in charge here? Do you see yourself as being in charge of your children? Are you in the habit of telling your children what to do and how to do it? Do you issue commands on a regular basis? If that&#8217;s the case, your ego is dominating your relationship with your children.
2.  Are [...]]]></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 the perfect time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Our Love Last?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne Mattos-Leedom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Parenting Puzzle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Raising caring, responsible children in today’s world presents many challenges. We hope as parents that our kids will grow into strong adults who can care for themselves and for others with their whole hearts and minds. We gauge their success as adults on many external factors, but from what I have seen in my many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Want Healthier Kids: Serve Dinner For Breakfast</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne Mattos-Leedom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Parenting Puzzle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nutritionists tell us how important it is to make sure our children eat a good breakfast each and every day. But many American children are used to eating sugary breakfasts such as pancakes, waffles and cereal.

Get this. A bowl of Frosted Mini Wheats contains three teaspoons (12 grams) of sugar; some raisin bran cereals contain [...]]]></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 and focus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Your Child Ready to Be Home Alone?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:41:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jody Johnston Pawel
www.parentstoolshop.com
Most parents know accidents can happen in the blink of an eye. So when children start becoming more independent, many parents wonder whether their child is ready to be home alone. To know the answer, parents must look at both a child’s age and maturity.
There is an unwritten rule-of thumb among social service [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Best Kept Secret in South Lake Tahoe</title>
		<link>http://www.parentingbookmark.com/travelingwithkids/the-best-kept-secret-in-south-lake-tahoe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne Mattos-Leedom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Traveling with Kids]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Best Kept Secret in South Lake Tahoe
Northern California offers a wide variety of adventure, family escapes and incredibly beautiful and scenic get-a-ways. After living in the region all my life I was delighted to discover one of the area’s best-kept secrets nestled on a spectacular Sierra Nevada ridge high above Lake Tahoe.

The Ridge Resort [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Your Kids to WriteThank You Notes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne Mattos-Leedom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Parenting Puzzle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gratitude]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The holidays can be a wonderful time to enjoy our families and share so much love and joy with our children. However, all the fun and excitement can either be something that will be meaningful for the rest of our kids&#8217; lives or it can be quickly lost in the rush of the gifts and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Punch That Parents Don’t See</title>
		<link>http://www.parentingbookmark.com/guest-columnist/the-punch-that-parents-dont-see/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>...</dc:creator>
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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 the job [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Is It Like To Be You?</title>
		<link>http://www.parentingbookmark.com/susan-stiffelman/what-is-it-like-to-be-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.parentingbookmark.com/susan-stiffelman/what-is-it-like-to-be-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Stiffelman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Susan Stiffelman]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.parentingbookmark.com/?p=898</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here’s what I know happens whenever I come at someone with my point of view rigidly holding me hostage: I become nervous—will I be able to convince them of the validity of my position?; forceful—do I have the strength to get them to see things my way; and/or passive—defeated before I begin. (And yes, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yet another lesson in parenting&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.parentingbookmark.com/susan-stiffelman/yet-another-lesson-in-parenting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Stiffelman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[relationships]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My son and I are in the Goleta gas station an hour and a half into our drive to San Francisco to look at colleges, and the car decides not to start. I try it again, and it apparently still believes it&#8217;s a good idea to pretend it has a dead battery or some such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Perfect Mother is Not an Ideal Mother At All</title>
		<link>http://www.parentingbookmark.com/linda-perlman-gordon-and-susan-morris-shaffer/a-perfect-mother-is-not-an-ideal-mother-at-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:41:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Perlman Gordon and Susan Morris Shaffer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linda Perlman Gordon and Susan Morris Shaffer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mothers and daughters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A daughter often feels her mother as such a powerful presence in her life that it can be difficult for her to see her as an ordinary person with failings, motives and ambitions. Developing a healthy adult relationship requires that both mothers and daughters understand and accept each other as separate individuals with flaws and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mothers and Adult Daughters: What is too Close for Comfort?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Perlman Gordon and Susan Morris Shaffer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linda Perlman Gordon and Susan Morris Shaffer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mother-daughter relationships are possibly the most satisfying and the most agonizing relationships women share. They are also our closest bond and the key to all other relationships. Exploring this relationship can help mothers and daughters to understand their own emotions, and what to expect from others.
Today the relationship is even more complicated because the boundaries [...]]]></description>
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