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		<title>Quote about our Police State</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My wife was looking for her keys and wallet this morning and enlisted the aid our 5-year-old daughter. I mentioned to my daughter that Mom can borrow my keys, but she&#8217;ll need her driver&#8217;s license to drive the car.
Dad: &#8220;You need your driver&#8217;s license card in case a police officer pulls you over, to show [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science, for the win!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A plastic jug of distilled water failed, leaking said gallon of water inside a little-used cabinet in our laundry room. It happened sometime between December 1st and yesterday.
Next to the jug was a cardboard box of Borax purchased after we enjoyed our Magic School Bus Science Kit. It&#8217;s for the science experiments I&#8217;m going to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mythologizing your childhood for your kids?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Daily Show gets to the heart of our dissatisfaction with how crappy things have become. We want our childhood back. (Sorry, there&#8217;s a lame commercial at the start.)

Bonus catch: The 1930s woman featured in the video is Clara, the star of Great Depression Cooking, as seen in Baby Link Roundup #6,825.
The point of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two kids and an earthquake</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 06:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AJ</dc:creator>
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My family lives under that big blue square.
We had a 6.5 magnitude earthquake about 4:30 p.m. Saturday. We felt maybe 15 seconds of shaking. A few light precariously positioned non-breakable objects fell in our home. We were in the living room at the time, so we exited the front door and stood outside with neighbors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best casual conversation leading to a serious discussion you&#8217;ll read today</title>
		<link>http://www.thingamababy.com/baby/2010/01/transgender.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:06:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[5-year-old daughter: &#8220;He&#8217;s the best brother ever!&#8221;
Dad: &#8220;Why?&#8221;
&#8220;He&#8217;s exactly like me!&#8221;
&#8220;Well, no, you have girl parts.&#8221;
&#8220;I know something about boys that Momma knows too.&#8221;
&#8220;What?&#8221;
&#8220;He can go to the doctor and get surgery to become a girl.&#8221;
[raucous laughter from Mom in the next room]
Dad: &#8220;I hope he doesn&#8217;t need to have that surgery.&#8221;
My nurse-wife guesses our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When does au gratin become rotten?</title>
		<link>http://www.thingamababy.com/baby/2010/01/naked.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Disclaimer: &#8220;Au gratin&#8221; in my family is a euphemism for nakedness. Don&#8217;t ask me why or how; it just is.
When does your child&#8217;s nakedness become inappropriate to others?
You take plenty of photos of your infant naked. As your kid gets older, at what point do you stop taking bath time or other photos? At what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The role of fathers in American society</title>
		<link>http://www.thingamababy.com/baby/2009/12/americandads.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Thinga-reader Rob suggests a discussion topic that concerns him:
&#8220;I&#8217;m British and my wife is American. We live in Washington, DC and are expecting our first child in January. I have a view that American society is strongly geared towards Mum-focused parenting only, whereas my feeling is that the United Kingdom, and some other European [...]]]></description>
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		<title>@#$%^&amp;*!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Q: What&#8217;s worse than your furnace and water heater both breaking on Thursday?
A: Taking a cold shower Friday night.
On Saturday my answer will change to: Seeing the bill for  replacing a 25-year-old water tank with a tankless heater. Whew, we sure got some mileage out of the old one, that&#8217;s for sure.
I&#8217;m behind on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching children to shut up</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My daughter&#8217;s kindergarten class received its H1N1 inoculation yesterday. Parents were invited to attend at the appointed time to help ease any fears. About one-third of the parents showed up and my daughter had no problems whatsoever.
Oh, but things weren&#8217;t totally peachy. The parent(s) of at least one student declined the vaccination. A problem arose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Short film on parenting, childhood, old age</title>
		<link>http://www.thingamababy.com/baby/2009/10/whatisthat.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.thingamababy.com/baby/2009/10/whatisthat.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a short, subtle Greek film on multiple subjects: What is that?
The film begins 40 seconds in after a lengthy presentation of credits.

What&#8217;s it it about?

 Reminiscing about childhood, your children
Lamenting the loss of childhood
 The relationship between father and son
 Having patience with elderly parents
Having patience with children
 The sense of wonder in [...]]]></description>
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