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		<title>Discipline: Stop Before Entering</title>
		<link>http://www.sohoparenting.com/blog/2010/07/spoiling-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Children need clear limits and guidance. From the end of the first year of life on, setting parameters about what is, and what is not appropriate behavior is the bulk of your job. Setting limits and clear expectations is not a punitive action &#8211; it is teaching. The goal is to raise a person who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When You Can&#8217;t Send Them Back</title>
		<link>http://www.sohoparenting.com/blog/2010/04/when-you-cant-send-them-back/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sohoparenting.com/blog/2010/04/when-you-cant-send-them-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Soho Parenting Staff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[K-5 Kids]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The story of the adopted eight year-old boy who was sent back to Russia evokes a lot of  judgment towards his adoptive mother. The New York Times Style Section, oddly enough, covers this story in the article In Some Adoptions Love Does Not Conquer All. The piece explores the perspective of other adoptive parents whose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doing Builds Empathy</title>
		<link>http://www.sohoparenting.com/blog/2010/04/doing-empathy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Soho Parenting Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is safe to say that parents are most prideful when they see their child reach out to someone in distress. An act like that is the physical manifestation of empathy, the ability to feel what someone else is feeling. Even very young children show the ability to act on their empathic feelings. For instance, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slowing Down The Morning Rush</title>
		<link>http://www.sohoparenting.com/blog/2010/04/the-morning-rush/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Soho Parenting Staff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[K-5 Kids]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mornings are hard for families.  There is always so much to get done. The clock is ticking as mom, dad, kids &#8211; all need to get up and get going. The &#8216;Morning Rush&#8217; can feel very hectic especially if you expect children to move at the rate of adults. By honoring the pace of children [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Phoebe Prince&#8217;s Death: A New Look At Bullying</title>
		<link>http://www.sohoparenting.com/blog/2010/04/phoebe-princes-death-a-new-look-at-bullying/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sohoparenting.com/blog/2010/04/phoebe-princes-death-a-new-look-at-bullying/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Soho Parenting Staff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Child Abuse]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sohoparenting.com/blog/?p=2659</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Phoebe Prince, the high school girl who hung herself last week, was purportedly &#8220;bullied&#8221; to death. Tortured is more like it. Hounded, cursed, humiliated in school and on-line. Defining bullying clearly is critical. Many adults think of bullying as a rite of passage in childhood. Clearly there is a difference between being picked last in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Detachment Parenting?</title>
		<link>http://www.sohoparenting.com/blog/2010/04/detachment-parenting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 10:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Soho Parenting Staff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Buddhism/Parenting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attachment is a parenting &#8220;buzz&#8221; word.  Detachment is a Buddhist one. The combination of both is the dynamic duo of raising children. The western definition of attachment is a connection, a deep desire to care for, protect and be a part of someone&#8217;s life. It is the foundation of healthy emotional development.  Yet, attachment in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elementary, My Dear Watson?</title>
		<link>http://www.sohoparenting.com/blog/2010/03/elementary-my-dear-watson/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sohoparenting.com/blog/2010/03/elementary-my-dear-watson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Soho Parenting Staff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama is focused on supporting reforms in our educational system, but what if these reforms are based on faulty assumptions?  Susan Engel, head of the teaching program at Williams College, writes a simple, straightforward recipe for elementary education in her Op-Ed Play to Learn. She argues that, based on developmental research, children should not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kids and Meds- &#8220;We&#8217;ve Got Issues&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.sohoparenting.com/blog/2010/02/judith-warenr/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sohoparenting.com/blog/2010/02/judith-warenr/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Soho Parenting Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Judith Warner, author and columnist on parenting issues, has just published We&#8217;ve Got Issues: Children and Parents In The Age of Medication. She began her project with the commonly held mindset that children are over-medicated through a collusion between parents, who want their childrens&#8217; behavior to change, and psychiatrists, who are more than happy to whip [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can&#8217;t Spank? Then Scream.</title>
		<link>http://www.sohoparenting.com/blog/2010/02/cant-spank-the-scream/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sohoparenting.com/blog/2010/02/cant-spank-the-scream/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Soho Parenting Staff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Child Abuse]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times article, For Some Parents Shouting is the New Spanking, by Hillary Stout,  bravely shines the light on a slightly taboo topic. In many parenting circles, spanking is a discipline tool of the past.Whether or not parents actually resort to spanking is another story. When it comes to screaming, however, it often seems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monkey Bars</title>
		<link>http://www.sohoparenting.com/blog/2010/02/recess-before-lunch/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sohoparenting.com/blog/2010/02/recess-before-lunch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Soho Parenting Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent article on the effects of switching the order of recess and lunch by Tara Parker Pope makes great sense. Moving recess earlier and lunch afterwards affected both kids well being at school and also resulted in the waste of food. At a time when some schools decrease recess time to fit in more [...]]]></description>
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