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	<description>On the common good and the good that is common.</description>
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		<title>The Things Children Know</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Wood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  STEWART W. writes: You quote Neil Postman, &#8220;Through the miracle of symbols and electricity our own children know everything anyone else knows – the good with the bad. Nothing is mysterious, nothing awesome, nothing is held back from public view.&#8221;  Eve tempted Adam with a single Apple. Today we cultivate vast orchards of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waifs of Yesterday, Waifs of Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Wood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[    THIS IS a photo of a young girl who was taken in by a charitable organization in 1890 in Bristol, England. She had been either living on the streets or in a state of extreme poverty and was taken into a home run by the Waifs and Strays&#8217; Society, which cared for more than 22,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Children Played</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Wood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  NOTICE this picture of a London alley in 1899. The children are playing outside and are dressed as children. The girl in the foreground is wearing a pinafore. The most startling thing is that they are playing outside with only one adult in the background. Remember when children used to play unsupervised games, with adults [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sickening Pace of Early Childhood Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Wood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[   KATHLENE M. writes: This article explores how kindergarten has become worse in recent years. This excerpt interested me for the reason I explain below: How and why has kindergarten changed? In a word: testing. According to a 2009 report from the Washington, D.C.-based Alliance for Childhood, kindergartners are being taught to comply with state [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Little Girl is Publicly Cheapened</title>
		<link>http://www.thinkinghousewife.com/wp/2011/02/a-little-girl-is-publicly-cheapened/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Wood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  AMR writes: I was looking through the headlines tonight and saw on MSN a video advertised as &#8220;You want to marry this kid when she grows up? Your heart might be broken until she gets one thing first.&#8221; I thought it was going to be a video on some goofy thing that a kid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lugging Children Through the Shallows of Banal Love</title>
		<link>http://www.thinkinghousewife.com/wp/2011/02/lugging-children-through-the-shallows-of-banal-love/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thinkinghousewife.com/wp/2011/02/lugging-children-through-the-shallows-of-banal-love/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Wood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  TODAY&#8217;S journalists are so quick to provide every mind-numbingly boring detail about their chaotic personal lives and so upfront about how indifferent they are to their children. This writer, in his description of his recent &#8220;courtship&#8221; in The New York Times, talks about his two children from two different women as if they are luggage stowed in the backseat, which presumably is what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to Barack Obama Elementary, Comrades</title>
		<link>http://www.thinkinghousewife.com/wp/2010/08/welcome-to-barack-obama-elementary-comrades/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Wood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  DALE F. writes:  The other day, a friend sent me a link to a piece by Will Hutton, a writer for the UK Guardian, contemplating mostly with satisfaction the civilizational accomplishments of his (and my) &#8220;baby boom&#8221; generation.  This morning I saw this article: The first school in the D.C. area named after the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is TV all Bad for Kids?</title>
		<link>http://www.thinkinghousewife.com/wp/2009/11/is-tv-all-bad-for-kids/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thinkinghousewife.com/wp/2009/11/is-tv-all-bad-for-kids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:50:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Wood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  ANNIE writes in response to the post The Cheapest Babysitter in Town: Do you think that any TV at all is bad for a two-year-old? I am really wondering what your personal opinion is. I was in agony when my little boy started watching TV around the time he turned one! I wanted to fight my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cheapest Babysitter in Town</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Wood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Children between the ages of 2 and 5 spend more than four hours a day watching TV and playing video games, according to a New York Times article on the latest surveys by Nielsen. This is the highest figure ever. Electronic entertainment is the cheapest and easiest way to entertain young children. As neighborhod life declines, families grow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disorder Claims the Nation&#8217;s Children</title>
		<link>http://www.thinkinghousewife.com/wp/2009/10/disorder-claims-the-nations-children/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thinkinghousewife.com/wp/2009/10/disorder-claims-the-nations-children/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Wood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  You&#8217;ve heard of ADD, ADHD, OCD and the like, and you&#8217;ve perhaps seen the children lined up at school infirmaries for their chemical supplements. Now, word is just in from The Onion of a new psycho-neurological condition afflicting the nation&#8217;s youth. This should have been discovered ages ago. Millions have gone untreated. In a more [...]]]></description>
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