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		<title>Minding Our Business</title>
		<link>http://www.sohoparenting.com/blog/2011/11/minding-our-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bethany Saltman T and I are scheduled to offer a retreat, along with other senior lay students/parents, on the practice of parenting at Fire Lotus Temple in Brooklyn, the city center of Zen Mountain Monastery. And I agreed to lead a discussion about parenting after being approached by a lovely new mom in Woodstock, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons From a Zen Mommy</title>
		<link>http://www.sohoparenting.com/blog/2011/09/lessons-from-a-zen-mommy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Slowing down and taking a few deep breaths can change your relationship with your kids. By Bethany Saltman My husband, Thayer, and I are Zen Buddhists. Before we had our daughter we lived in a monastery in upstate New York. Life was simple there. We’d wake up every day before 4 a.m. in silence, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You Happy? Considering the Lobster Within</title>
		<link>http://www.sohoparenting.com/blog/2011/07/are-you-happy-considering-the-lobster-within/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bethany Saltman A few weeks ago, Azalea, T, T’s parents, and I returned from a spring break vacation to Saint Thomas. Since we were traveling with two of Azalea’s most doting and eager caretakers—her grandparents—I was actually able to do some reading, includingConsider the Lobster, a book of essays by David Foster Wallace, the much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It’s a Beautiful World: Kim John Payne on Simplicity Parenting</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bethany Saltman Kim John Payne has spent the last 27 years studying families. As a school counselor, consultant, educator, and private family counselor, his work has taken him around the world, and he is a longstanding participant in the Waldorf movement. Payne’s latest book, Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something Good</title>
		<link>http://www.sohoparenting.com/blog/2011/04/something-good/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bethany Saltman Yesterday, Azalea and I met up with some of our friends for lunch at Mother Earth’s Storehouse. In the middle of their un-chicken nuggets, Little Friend #1 realized that the date would be over soon, that neither friend would be coming home with her, and she got so sad, so fast! Little eyes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ding, Ding! The Middle Way Wins Again</title>
		<link>http://www.sohoparenting.com/blog/2011/03/ding-ding-the-middle-way-wins-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 10:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bethany Saltman Two articles about parenting came to my attention recently and have gotten me thinking. Both are interesting in their own right, but side by side they are even more compelling. The first one I came across is by Karen Maezen Miller, a Zen priest and author ofMomma Zen. It’s called “Not Teaching Children [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yoga Is A Natural Antidepressant</title>
		<link>http://www.sohoparenting.com/blog/2011/01/yoga-is-a-natural-antidepressant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s always wonderful to see empirical evidence to support things you know in your gut.  Yoga, the practice of postures and breathing, is an ancient healing tool. Anecdotally, anyone who practices yoga regularly will attest to its value in regulating mood, increasing feelings of well-being and that the effects transfer off the mat into regular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bad News</title>
		<link>http://www.sohoparenting.com/blog/2010/11/the-bad-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 10:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bethany Saltman For Buddhists, every day is a good day to study impermanence. But for us hopeless melancholics, autumn is prime-time, showing off the flare and fade of another rotation around the sun, another moment spent here on earth, and the recognition that my own life span is ever decreasing. Yikes! And in the words [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will What’s Real About Childhood Please Stand Up?</title>
		<link>http://www.sohoparenting.com/blog/2010/10/will-what%e2%80%99s-real-about-childhood-please-stand-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bethany Saltman Last night I had the pleasure of sitting with Azalea and reading a fine book called The  World’s Biggest Tea Party. It is about the My Little Pony crew and how on “one bright spring day in Ponyville, a group of pony friends gathered at Sweetberry’s Sweetshoppe.” One pink pony named Rainbow Dash, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learn to Relax</title>
		<link>http://www.sohoparenting.com/blog/2010/08/learn-to-relax/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following exercises are ancient yoga breathing techniques shared by Francesca Bove, a registered yoga instructor in New York City.  One is called Sama Vritti Pranayama or &#8220;same length breathe&#8221;; the other is &#8220;alternate nostral breathing&#8221; or Nadi Shodhana in Sanskrit. These both work to calm the mind and body, clearing the way for sound thinking. Enjoy! Sama Vritti Pranayama Benefits: Calms [...]]]></description>
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