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		<title>Postponing Kindergarten</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Growing up, I was unsure of what made parents postpone kindergarten. I never quite understood why some of my friends were much older than me, why certain kids went to pre-school while others did not, or the complexities behind a child explaining that their parents &#8220;just kept them home&#8221; for another year. Having finished school [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food Rules: Perhaps Organic Really Is The Best Way?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are always those studies released that say that we should all eat organic and local, and even more studies that show that putting your kids on a special diet will help them with this disorder and that disease. A few years ago it was stressed that parents of autistic children put their kids on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.speakaboos.com/2010/08/food-rules-perhaps-organic-really-is-the-best-way/</link>
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		<title>Study Reveals Secret to getting Kids to Read over the Summer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[we at Speakaboos are launching our Summer Reading Program -- watch any 10 of our storybook videos, submit an entry form listing what you watched, and we'll send you an Arthur Celebrity Audiobook CD! Happy reading]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.speakaboos.com/2010/08/study-reveals-secret-to-getting-kids-to-read-over-the-summer/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Quit Your Day Job: Study Shows Working Moms Still Decent Parents</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll never forget the day my mother started working two jobs because my parents split up. She was devastated. After not having to work at all when we were super young, the drastic change made all of us nervous. When I found this article on the Washington Post, I was ecstatic. No longer do working [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.speakaboos.com/2010/08/dont-quit-your-day-job-study-shows-working-moms-still-decent-parents/</link>
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		<title>Flying With Children</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day I was browsing through a few posts on the NYTimes Motherlode blog and came accross a ridiculous story about a 67-year-old woman who sued Qantas airlines for losing her hearing, claiming it was a result of a screaming child and airline crew negligence. The woman experienced hearing loss and wore hearing aids [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.speakaboos.com/2010/07/flying-with-children/</link>
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		<title>The Birds and the Bees&#8230; of the Internet.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A while back, I wrote a post about social media and how it influences teen relationships and friendships. I argued hopefully somewhat effectively and coherently that social media websites such as Facebook and MySpace are actually beneficial to teen development and that they help foster deeper and more intricate relationships. But at what point is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.speakaboos.com/2010/07/the-birds-and-the-bees-of-the-internet/</link>
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		<title>Speakaboos Launches Channel on Kideos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK, NY July 19, 2010— Just in time for summer reading, Speakaboos introduces a new way  for kids and parents to enjoy the site’s free online catalog of  classics, such as “Mary had a Little Lamb” and Jack and the  Beanstalk. The digital publisher of celebrity-narrated fairy tales,  fables, nursery [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.speakaboos.com/2010/07/speakaboos-launches-channel-on-kideos/</link>
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		<title>The &#8220;Only Child Myth&#8221; through the eyes of an only child</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In her 1989 book Family Size and Achievement, Judith Blake calls the only child peculiar, “over privileged, asocial, royally autonomous…self-centered, aloof and overly intellectual.”  The article I read today in Time Magazine (“One and Done” by Lauren Sandler) spends most of its time trying to refute these classifications of only children (or “singletons” as the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.speakaboos.com/2010/07/the-only-child-myth-through-the-eyes-of-an-only-child/</link>
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		<title>Love Your Children!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s an article I read the other day in New York Magazine that I find highly disturbing yet exceptionally poignant called, “I Love My Children; I Hate My Life.” The article discusses the reasons behind modern parent woes and misery, as well as offering a few statistics for “happiness” levels across the board. It’s a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.speakaboos.com/2010/07/love-your-children/</link>
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		<title>Parenting Advice from Despicable Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Parents seek advice from everyone (even if we don’t always want to hear it).  Sometimes that advice comes from family, sometimes from friends, and mostly it comes from our kids.  But even cartoon characters can give us advice.  Even the most evil and despicable ones at that.
In the new movie, Despicable Me, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.speakaboos.com/2010/07/parenting-advice-from-despicable-me/</link>
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