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	<title>Parent Talk &#187; Social Action</title>
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		<title>Fight For Our Kids</title>
		<link>http://www.sohoparenting.com/blog/2011/10/occupy-the-classroom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No matter your political persuasion, there is no debate that great economic disparity is damaging to children, and therefore to society as a whole. The lack of opportunities for the less wealthy not only hurts them, but the effect of a greater population struggling with economic anxiety and the sequela has an impact on every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Safe Products for You and Your Children</title>
		<link>http://www.sohoparenting.com/blog/2011/07/safe-products-for-you-and-your-children/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sohoparenting.com/blog/2011/07/safe-products-for-you-and-your-children/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Soho Parenting Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Momsrising.com Talk about unsafe!  Women use an average of 12 beauty products containing more than 125 unique chemicals every morning before they walk out the door, every day. (1) Even worse: Only 11% of chemicals in personal care products in the U.S. have been assessed for safety. It’s so frustrating. You do everything you can to protect your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Couldn’t Have Said It Better</title>
		<link>http://www.sohoparenting.com/blog/2010/11/couldn%e2%80%99t-have-said-it-better/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sohoparenting.com/blog/2010/11/couldn%e2%80%99t-have-said-it-better/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 10:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Soho Parenting Staff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Breastfeeding]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Erica Jong, author of Fear of Flying, feminist and mother writes a truly provocatice article in the Wall Street Journal entitled, Mother Madness. She exposes attachment parenting for what it is&#8211;a prison for women. It highlights that the race for the perfect child is a strategy to ignore bigger problems and politics. Here are some excerpts, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take Your Child To Vote Day</title>
		<link>http://www.sohoparenting.com/blog/2010/11/take-your-child-to-vote-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sohoparenting.com/blog/2010/11/take-your-child-to-vote-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Soho Parenting Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you want a sure fire way to model good behavior for your kids? Take them with you to vote.  For small children it is beginning an important ritual with them. For your school aged children,  not only is this modeling it a great opportunity to discuss what voting means and what a privilege it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caps for Cancer</title>
		<link>http://www.sohoparenting.com/blog/2010/10/caps-for-cancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Soho Parenting Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jean and I are avid needlepointers and picked this up from our favorite store, Rita&#8217;s. They are donating caps to chemo patients and we thought we would share this with you all. CAP KNITTING INSTRUCTIONS: Materials: One pair needles (fairly large &#8211; 8, 9 or 10), Knitting Yarn &#8211; about 2-3 ounces worsted weight or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Sister City is a Gulf Town!</title>
		<link>http://www.sohoparenting.com/blog/2010/06/our-sister-city-is-a-gulf-town/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sohoparenting.com/blog/2010/06/our-sister-city-is-a-gulf-town/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Soho Parenting Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our New Orleans community has been directly impacted by the environmental catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico. Oil workers, shrimpers and their families who live in the development are coping with the loss of their livelihood. Just as these families started to recover and heal from Hurricane Katrina, they are now hit again. In light of these recent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Win For Nannies Is A Win For Women</title>
		<link>http://www.sohoparenting.com/blog/2010/06/a-win-for-nannies-is-a-win-for-women/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sohoparenting.com/blog/2010/06/a-win-for-nannies-is-a-win-for-women/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Soho Parenting Staff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Caregivers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York State Assembly and Senate have recently passed versions of a new bill instating the rights of domestic workers. Sick days, paid vacation, and overtime will finally be protected benefits even for domestic workers who are not legal citizens. The New York Times article, For Nannies, Hope For Workplace Protection describes the bills [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doing Builds Empathy</title>
		<link>http://www.sohoparenting.com/blog/2010/04/doing-empathy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sohoparenting.com/blog/2010/04/doing-empathy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Soho Parenting Staff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[K-5 Kids]]></category>
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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>Phoebe Prince’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[Bullying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Child Abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Discipline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[K-5 Kids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mental Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pressure on Children]]></category>
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		<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>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>
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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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