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		<title>Flashcards and Beethoven Do Not a Genius Make</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are ten things you should know about the brain of your child from author Harry H. Harrison- 1. Let’s start with the flashcard and Beethoven. Lord knows where this idea originated, but every NPR listening, PBS watching, back-to-earth organic eating parent believes it. Yet there is not one shred of scientific data supporting the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It’s a Blood Pressure Thing: Should You Be Concerned for Your Child?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[High Blood Pressure is not just for the older generation. It can start early. Although it is difficult to imagine, children and adolescents are at risk of HBP, and HBP at a young age may be a precursor to hypertension in adults. As stated in a recent study involving a group of children and adolescents [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parentingbookmark.com/parenting-without-panic/it%e2%80%99s-a-blood-pressure-thing-should-you-be-concerned-for-your-child/</link>
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		<title>The Snowball Effect: When Laziness Can Trump Ambition</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.parentingbookmark.com/guest-columnist/the-snowball-effect-when-laziness-can-trump-ambition/</link>
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		<title>Four Ways to Connect to Your Teen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the lives of our growing teens become more demanding and involved, they move further away from the family routine of their childhood. Being excited about mom’s help in school, play dates and the general support that parents provide to young children fade as they progress through their teen years and become more dependent on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parentingbookmark.com/parenting-without-panic/four-ways-to-connect-to-your-teen/</link>
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		<title>Be the Anti-Bully: There’s No Such Thing as an Innocent Bystander</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.parentingbookmark.com/guest-columnist/be-the-anti-bully-there%e2%80%99s-no-such-thing-as-an-innocent-bystander/</link>
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		<title>Breaking Dawn Part 1 &#8211; Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[*Spoiler Alert In part one of the final installments of the Twilight Saga, the characters are gearing up for the highly anticipated wedding between Edward and Bella. As there was much to get through in the hour and fifty-seven minutes allotted for the film, the movie jumps from scene to scene at a fast pace. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parentingbookmark.com/movie-stars/breaking-dawn-part-1-review/</link>
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		<title>8 Ways to Get Your Family to Help You Around the House</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.parentingbookmark.com/guest-columnist/8-ways-to-get-your-family-to-help-you-around-the-house/</link>
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		<title>Five Mistakes Connected Parents Make</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.parentingbookmark.com/guest-columnist/five-mistakes-connected-parents-make/</link>
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		<title>Confidence or Arrogance: What Kind of Child Are You Raising?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We all know the feeling…the moment of pride when someone notices how outspoken or articulate our child is. We bask in the knowledge that our child is smart, has a great sense of self-esteem and succeeds at virtually everything they attempt to do. There is a fine line between confidence and pride and arrogance. Experts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parentingbookmark.com/parenting-without-panic/confidence-or-arrogance-what-kind-of-child-are-you-raising/</link>
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		<title>Doing My Child&#8217;s Homework</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Mr. Dad: When I sit down to help my daughter with her homework, I find myself getting impatient. I cave in to her whining about it being too hard and end up giving her the answers. The problems is that she’s gotten so used to my helping that she says she can’t complete an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parentingbookmark.com/armin-brott/doing-my-childs-homework/</link>
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		<title>What To Do If Your Child Is Teased or Bullied</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My son’s only seven, but he’s been coming home upset every day. He says a boy named Mark keeps teasing him. Now the rest of the kids won’t play with him because they are afraid Mark will start picking on them, too. He’s miserable and doesn’t want to go to school. What can I do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parentingbookmark.com/michele-borba/what-to-do-if-your-child-is-teased-or-bullied/</link>
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		<title>The Truth About Family Dinners</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.parentingbookmark.com/guest-columnist/the-truth-about-family-dinners/</link>
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		<title>Safety Concerns on Uploading Smartphone Photos of Your Children</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.parentingbookmark.com/guest-columnist/safety-concerns-on-uploading-smartphone-photos-of-your-children/</link>
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		<title>Bullies and Victims</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There was a news story out of Florida yesterday about a man, James Jones, who stormed a bus of children and threatened the bullies who were terrorizing his daughter who has cerebral palsy.  Classmates had put an open condom on his daughter’s head, taunted her, and hurt her by twisting her ear.  This father is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parentingbookmark.com/fran-walfish/bullies-and-victims/</link>
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		<title>Q &amp; A&#8217;s on Parenting Shy Children</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First off, I’ve read that we never call our children “shy” so that they can hear. Why is this so important? Most shy children are terribly uncomfortable being under a microscope or in the spotlight.  They do not like having their pictures taken, being observed, or feeling categorically labeled.  If you call your child &#8220;shy&#8221;, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parentingbookmark.com/fran-walfish/q-as-on-parenting-shy-children/</link>
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