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		<title>Caving on Cell Phones</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, the stupid things that my friends and I used to say before having kids. Things like . . .
“Even though you traveled more than 1,000 miles to come to my wedding, you must leave your baby with a sitter you’ve never met before.”
and . . .
“We’re going to go out every Saturday night just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prmom.wordpress.com&blog=3616138&post=87&subd=prmom&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe they really do listen</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I were president . . . this was the prompt for my 5th grader’s morning writing assignment in school.

If I were president . . .
I would let kids after taking a test to prove they knew the candidates and what they stood for to be allowed to vote. I would do this because the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prmom.wordpress.com&blog=3616138&post=74&subd=prmom&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mommy . . . can I get in bed with you?</title>
		<link>http://prmom.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/snuggling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mommy . . . can I get in bed with you? Can we cuddle?
I love and hate these words. My 6 year-old probably comes in a once or twice a week in the wee, wee hours of the morning, walking all the way around the bed to my side, tapping gently next to me and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prmom.wordpress.com&blog=3616138&post=67&subd=prmom&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is &#8220;Unschooling&#8221; About the Parent or the Child?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I never felt part of the mommy wars. If anything, I was jealous of my stay-home mom friends. But alas, I married a teacher—need I say more?
So my children began child care early and, today they are both in elementary school. (They do get a bonus that most kids don’t—they get daddy 24/7 all summer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prmom.wordpress.com&blog=3616138&post=59&subd=prmom&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s to Blame When Kids Make Mistakes?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All of the news coverage of Sarah Palin’s  daughter’s teen pregnancy is making me cringe. 

First, in the interest of full disclosure—I am mostly (though not always) a liberal Democrat. But I’m looking this through a very different lens right now. A parental lens. 

Does the fact that her teen daughter had sex, something [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prmom.wordpress.com&blog=3616138&post=49&subd=prmom&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One of Life’s Mysteries</title>
		<link>http://prmom.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/one-of-lifes-mysteries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can someone please explain this to me?
 
All summer long, my 6-year-old hopped out of bed in the wee hours of the morning ready to start to his day. 
 
Now school has started. The alarm is set for 7 AM. He sleeps until it goes off (and sometimes through it), groggily climbs out of bed, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prmom.wordpress.com&blog=3616138&post=45&subd=prmom&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Home Alone: When can I stop paying the babysitter?!</title>
		<link>http://prmom.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/home-alone-when-can-i-stop-paying-the-babysitter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps Home Alone isn’t really a good movie for kids to see. After watching it during a very long drive from North Carolina to Maine, the kids commented how cool it would be to sled down the stairs and out the door as Macaulay Caulkin does. Fortunately it hardly evers snow in NC, so we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prmom.wordpress.com&blog=3616138&post=40&subd=prmom&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sex is Not a Four Letter Word (Talking to Kids About Sex)</title>
		<link>http://prmom.wordpress.com/2008/07/18/sex-is-not-a-four-letter-word-talking-to-kids-about-sex/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sex. It’s everywhere—including the bible. So what happens when children, in this case 4th graders, begin discussing bible stories in religious school that deal with sexually-charged topics? From the very beginning, the story of Abraham, Sarah and Hagar deals with reproductive issues.
 
In our community, this has created significant discomfort with some parents. A friend told [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prmom.wordpress.com&blog=3616138&post=30&subd=prmom&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kid-sickness—Guilty!</title>
		<link>http://prmom.wordpress.com/2008/07/11/kid-sickness%e2%80%94guilty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday’s paper had an article on what AP writer Martha Irvine called a new disease, “kid-sickness.”
It used to be the homesick kid begging to come home from camp. Now [camp directors] have noticed that it&#8217;s often parents who have more trouble letting go. 
They call it &#8220;kid-sickness,&#8221; a condition attributed in large part to today&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prmom.wordpress.com&blog=3616138&post=28&subd=prmom&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To Quit or Not to Quit</title>
		<link>http://prmom.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/to-quit-or-not-to-quit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Piano lessons. Parents want their children to have them. Children find practicing the bane of their existence. Is the battle worth it?
For our oldest, we decided it definitely was not. She got no enjoyment out of playing . . . ever. We were exposing her to a variety of things, and we wrote this one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prmom.wordpress.com&blog=3616138&post=25&subd=prmom&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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