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		<title>Temple Grandin autism HBO film</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m so thick sometimes. I don&#8217;t watch TV, so I was oblivious to the fact that HBO premiered a film about Temple Grandin this month (see previously: The woman who thinks like a cow).
Here&#8217;s the short trailer:

and the long trailer:

And Claire Danes talking about the film on The Colbert Report, with a film clip at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Autistic Woman who Thinks like a Cow</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The amazing story of Dr. Temple Grandin&#8217;s ability to read the animal mind, which has made her the most famous autistic woman on the planet.&#8221; &#8211; BBC.

She has high-functioning autism, and began speaking at age 5. Today she&#8217;s a professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University and a well known autism advocate, and inventor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Choose a school that embraces differences</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AJ</dc:creator>
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January 4, 2010: David &#8220;Chubbs&#8221; Stillman was a high school hero Monday night, and this is the sort of happy ending everyone needs to know about.
&#8220;Chubbs,&#8221; 18, is a senior at Kirkwood High School, who until Monday night had never played even one minute of high school basketball. He is a special-education student with more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using football to raise a world-wise child</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AJ</dc:creator>
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Oh no, another sort-of-parenting, sort-of-not post.
I try to practice idealism parenting (a jingoistic term that just occurred to me). It means knowing what you should do in an ideal world and then going out and doing it regardless of your personal comfort level.
A basic example of idealism would be when, after an argument in which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neil Degrasse Tyson on science literacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This clip of an interview with astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson compliments his earlier comments on young scientists. Ehh, it&#8217;s remotely tangentially related to toddlerhood. I&#8217;m just a Neil Degrasse Tyson groupie.

The whole interview is 26 minutes. Here are links to the nine sections of the interview&#8230;


How does a kid born in the Bronx end up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh Really, CNN?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following quote is from 20+ of the greatest parenting tips ever, an article linked on CNN.com quoting material from parenting.com (I couldn&#8217;t locate the article at parenting.com).
Who hasn&#8217;t squirted Motrin into her toddler&#8217;s ear when he&#8217;s putting up a feverish fight? Take a cue from Mary Poppins and mix a dose of medicine with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neil deGrasse Tyson&#8217;s perspective on young scientists</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be writing about children&#8217;s books about aliens and space soon. If you have a recommendation, e-mail it with a quick note about why you like your book. (Find my address in the upper right corner.)
Today I&#8217;m sharing a quick thought on how to raise a junior scientist, or at least encourage an inquisitive mind. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speech Delay: A Joyous Nuisance</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AJ</dc:creator>
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I haven&#8217;t written about it until now, but our 15-month-old boy isn&#8217;t talking. At all.
He babbled a little around the 11- to 12-month mark, possibly saying a word here or there, but never more than once&#8230; leading us to some wishful thinking. I reported his first word as being &#8220;kitty&#8221; when he used it in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Goal of Parenting</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 15:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alternate title: Raising great kids despite yourself

I want my daughter to be a better person than I am. More than that, I want her free of my inhibitions and prejudices.
As my wife and I went through the process of selecting an elementary school earlier this year, and as my daughter&#8217;s age has us choosing an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Commercialization of Childhood: What Parents Can Do</title>
		<link>http://www.thingamababy.com/baby/2009/04/commercialization.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consuming Kids is a documentary by the Media Education Foundation that looks at how marketers are manipulating children essentially from birth. Check out this 5-minute trailer.

A few choice quotes&#8230;

&#8220;We&#8217;re creating a future generation of super consumers.&#8221;
&#8220;That&#8217;s the basic consumer identity, it&#8217;s shallow, it&#8217;s about me, it&#8217;s about me now, and it&#8217;s about me and these [...]]]></description>
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