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		<title>Will Our Love Last?</title>
		<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>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.parentingbookmark.com/theparentingpuzzle/want-healthier-kids-serve-dinner-for-breakfast/</link>
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		<title>5 Steps to a Calmer Evening</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.parentingbookmark.com/guest-columnist/5-steps-to-a-calmer-evening/</link>
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		<title>Is Your Child Ready to Be Home Alone?</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.parentingbookmark.com/guest-columnist/is-your-child-ready-to-be-home-alone/</link>
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		<title>The Best Kept Secret in South Lake Tahoe</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.parentingbookmark.com/travelingwithkids/the-best-kept-secret-in-south-lake-tahoe/</link>
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		<title>Getting Your Kids to WriteThank You Notes</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.parentingbookmark.com/theparentingpuzzle/getting-your-kids-to-writethank-you-notes/</link>
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		<title>The Punch That Parents Don’t See</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.parentingbookmark.com/guest-columnist/the-punch-that-parents-dont-see/</link>
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		<title>What Is It Like To Be You?</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.parentingbookmark.com/susan-stiffelman/what-is-it-like-to-be-you/</link>
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		<title>Yet another lesson in parenting&#8230;</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.parentingbookmark.com/susan-stiffelman/yet-another-lesson-in-parenting/</link>
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		<title>A Perfect Mother is Not an Ideal Mother At All</title>
		<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>
		<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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		<title>Mothers and Adult Daughters: What is too Close for Comfort?</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.parentingbookmark.com/linda-perlman-gordon-and-susan-morris-shaffer/mothers-and-adult-daughters-what-is-too-close-for-comfort/</link>
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		<title>The Fine Art of Disciplining Other People’s Kids: What to Do and How to Do It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was growing up, if I misbehaved I was set straight by the parent in charge. If my friends misbehaved at my house there were held accountable by my mom and dad. But parenting has changed. These days parent are much more cautious about discipline kids who are not their – probably because our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parentingbookmark.com/michele-borba/the-fine-art-of-disciplining-other-peoples-kids-what-to-do-and-how-to-do-it/</link>
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		<title>Sleep &#8211; A Family Affair</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are a sleep deprived society &#38; it’s getting worse; even with important information from the National Sleep Foundation &#38; other reputable organizations we don’t change our behavior. What’s up with our lack of zzzs and how does it impact your health and that of your family?
Parents set the stage for their family’s sleep. They [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parentingbookmark.com/lesley-schroeder/sleep-a-family-affair/</link>
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		<title>Perimenopause &#8211; Your Journey to the 14th Full Moon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Window of Opportunity, Window of Vulnerability
You might ask, ‘What does perimenopause have to do with parenting?’  They share several common themes:

they both can be an extremely rewarding experience that will broaden  &#38; deepen your life
they both can be very challenging, giving you an opportunity to learn new things about yourself &#38; the world
they both force [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parentingbookmark.com/lesley-schroeder/perimenopause-your-journey-to-the-14th-full-moon/</link>
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		<title>The Ten Best Things to Say to Your Child During Homework Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Homework can be a battle or a breeze. It can create conflict or cooperation. It can produce tension or focused attention.  Which of these outcomes occurs in your home depends in great measure on how you talk to your children during that important time period. To help your child&#8217;s homework experience be productive and stress [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parentingbookmark.com/chick-moorman-and-thomas-haller/the-ten-best-things-to-say-to-your-child-during-homework-time/</link>
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