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	<title>Healthy and Green Living &#187; Babies</title>
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	<description>more than 4,000 ways to enhance your life</description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:01:37 +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>
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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>The Hazards of Fluoride in Food &#038; Water</title>
		<link>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/the-hazards-of-flouride-in-food-water.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel, selected from Natural Solutions magazine</dc:creator>
		
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By Jeff Green, Natural Solutions
They say that hindsight is 20/20 vision. Today, as the devastating effects of chemicals in our water, food and environment surface, we need to look back and see where things went wrong. In fact, it turns out that most chemicals were introduced into the environment without adequate testing, often by means [...]]]></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[Pregnancy]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[birth defect]]></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>Safe, Fun, and Eco-Conscious Baby Products</title>
		<link>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/safe-fun-and-eco-conscious-baby-products.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Megan, selected from Green Options</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As of yesterday, I am the mother of a happy, healthy one year old girl named Emerson. In my year of motherhood, I have figured out a few things including what products I absolutely love and want every other mommy to have. We haven&#8217;t had to buy much thanks to our generous community of hand-me-downers. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Garage Sale Warning</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hall-Jackson</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[used toys]]></category>

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Great finds for low prices have long made yard sales a win-win for sellers who want to unload no longer used items for a profit, and buyers looking for deep discounts on anything from trinkets to big-ticket furniture items.
Buyers and sellers both need to beware, however.  Buyers: Hazardous items that have been recalled by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forget What You Know: Babies Are Way Smarter Than You Think</title>
		<link>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/forget-what-you-know-babies-are-way-smarter-than-you-think.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/forget-what-you-know-babies-are-way-smarter-than-you-think.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Steinman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[New studies clearly demonstrate that babies and very young children know, observe, explore, imagine and learn more than we would ever have thought possible. In many significant ways, they are even smarter than adults. I will tell you honestly and quite upfront, this is not the first time I have reported on these sorts of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breastfeeding Mother Asked to Cover Up</title>
		<link>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/breastfeeding-mother-asked-to-cover-up.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/breastfeeding-mother-asked-to-cover-up.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Megan Zehnder</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After Indiana-mother Maggie Naas ordered food for herself, she decided to breastfeed her 11-month old, Katie. But when she followed this instinct, the culture around her responded. The Olive Garden manager asked Naas to either cover up or feed her baby in the restroom.
&#8220;We had numerous guests complain about her modesty, Olive Garden General Manager [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Doll Sucks: What a Breastfeeding Doll Says About Society?</title>
		<link>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/this-doll-sucks-what-a-breastfeeding-doll-says-about-society.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/this-doll-sucks-what-a-breastfeeding-doll-says-about-society.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:24:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Steinman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[From the &#8220;I took the bait&#8221; file:
Being a journalist, you quickly start to figure out the way things work pertaining to product and subsequent hype. A particular product will be released that holds some trivial interest or inherent controversy and media savvy PR people will push out that product into various media channels and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Ask if She &#8216;Sleeps Through The Night&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/dont-ask-if-she-sleeps-through-the-night.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.care2.com/greenliving/dont-ask-if-she-sleeps-through-the-night.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:32:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hilary Stamper</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As I sit typing with my two year-old snuggled to my back in my trusty baby carrier, I ponder sleep. Specifically, a child&#8217;s sleep. My children can sleep so profoundly that at times, loud bang in the midst of their slumber elicits not even a flicker of response (not that I regularly bang things while [...]]]></description>
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