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	<title>Healthy and Green Living &#187; Parenting at the Crossroads</title>
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	<description>more than 4,000 ways to enhance your life</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>How Parenting Advice Just Makes You Feel Like a Big Loser</title>
		<link>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/bad-parents-buy-buy-buy-how-parenting-advice-just-makes-you-feel-like-a-big-loser.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Steinman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Something happened to parenting in the last few decades. Maybe it was Dr. Spock with his watershed Baby and Child Care book released in 1946? Or possibly the hardbound avalanche of parenting advice books (type in &#8220;parenting advice&#8221; on an Amazon.com search and you will get 87,608 experts eager to show you how to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Einstein Not: The Fraud of Educational Videos Aimed at Young Children</title>
		<link>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/einstein-not-the-fraud-of-educational-videos-aimed-at-young-children.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Steinman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Like most parents, I am skeptical when it comes to ritual television viewing for young children. Actually, let me rephrase that: I am wholly against it, and judging from empirical experience along with the loads of data out there, I see no real reason to sit your young child in front of the TV, other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scare the Kid Out of You: Is Halloween Age Appropriate For Young Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Steinman</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Family Life]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Halloween]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Holidays &amp; Gifts]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Parenting at the Crossroads]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[children's fears]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[costumes]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[fear]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A good friend and fellow parent provided for me a cautionary tale about Halloween. His son (then a very excitable three-year old) expressed nothing but anticipation and enthusiasm leading up to Halloween. For weeks he talked about dressing up, trick-or-treating, and seeing all the other boys and girls in costume. To hear my friend explain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ditching Your Parents: When the Relationship With Your Parents is Broken</title>
		<link>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/ditching-your-parents-when-the-relationship-with-your-parents-is-irreparably-broken.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Steinman</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Elder Care]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Family Life]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Love &amp; Relationships]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Parenting at the Crossroads]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Relationships &amp; Sexuality]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[abusive relationships]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[difficult parents]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[therapy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Virtually everyone I know has had a gripe (or two) about his or her respective parents. Some dread the parental visit; others screen frequent phone calls, and many set up elaborate boundaries to keep their parents as a definitively minimal influence in their lives. That said, most all of my friends and acquaintances still maintain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Mommy and Daddy Got Hammered: Talking With Your Children About Past Drug and Alcohol Use</title>
		<link>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/when-mommy-and-daddy-got-hammered-talking-with-your-children-about-past-drug-and-alcohol-use.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Steinman</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Healthy Mind]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[News &amp; Issues]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[addiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just for the record, I did inhale.
I figure in about ten years or so I will need to reveal this particular fact to my son, who will be entering his teen years and developing questions about drug and alcohol use. My wife and I have already had the conversation with one another as to how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lit Crit: Where the Wild Things Are</title>
		<link>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/lit-crit-where-the-wild-things-are.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Steinman</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Family Life]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Parenting at the Crossroads]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[childhood fears]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Children's Books]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lit Crit]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[monsters]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sendak]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Where the Wild Things Are]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So it has been a while since I indulged a bit and scripted one of my investigations/criticisms of a beloved children&#8217;s book. Considering the upcoming release of the film version of Where the Wild Things Are later this month, I thought why not tackle one of the greatest works of children&#8217;s pictorial literature of all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Hooked: Why Dating Among Teenagers is Just So Dated</title>
		<link>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/getting-hooked-why-dating-among-teenagers-is-just-so-dated.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Steinman</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Family Life]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Healthy Schools]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Parenting at the Crossroads]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Relationships &amp; Sexuality]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[college]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At the moment you read these very words, teenagers and young adults across the country are having sex (hopefully not with one another). This fact is undeniable, and there is not much any one person could do about it, unless of course you happen to be one of them. Parents have been concerned and fretting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Down and Out: What it Means if Down Syndrome Disappears</title>
		<link>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/down-and-out-what-it-means-if-down-syndrome-disappears.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Steinman</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Parenting at the Crossroads]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pregnancy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[amnio]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[birth defect]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[chromosome]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[down syndrome]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[pro choice]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Close to four years ago, a close friend of mine gave birth to a child with Down syndrome. It came as a complete shock to her, as well as to all of her family and friends. She had opted out of the traditional first trimester amniocentesis that checked for chromosomal disorders associated with Down syndrome; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Family of Lies: How Parents Perpetuate Subtle Dishonesty</title>
		<link>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/a-family-of-lies-how-parents-perpetuate-subtle-dishonesty.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Steinman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As children, in an effort to impart the nobility of truth and the depravity of lies, we were constantly reminded of the admonitory tale of George Washington and the cherry tree. For those of you that were either perpetually tuned out, or were just so dutiful that you were never reprimanded with this enduring myth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gay as the School Day is Long: Teen Sexuality on School Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Steinman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a high school student in the late 1980s, there was (what was then) a controversial move to create a gay and lesbian student group that would meet during school hours activating a sort of peer support. They were called &#8220;Project 13&#8243; and they had won the support of a handful of lesbian [...]]]></description>
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