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		<title>For Our American Friends</title>
		<link>http://www.theopinionatedparent.com/2009/07/03/for-our-american-friends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You make up just over 50% of our daily readership, and we hope you ALL have an amazing long weekend and enjoy your 4th of July celebrations.
I&#8217;m having a bbq at my house tomorrow in your honour!  
(No fireworks though.  Boo.)
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		<title>Seek and Solve Games Keep Kids Mind Active Over The Summer And Always</title>
		<link>http://www.theopinionatedparent.com/2009/07/03/pop-cap-games/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chelle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[For Big Kids (6+)]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking for a distraction? (ed: Aren&#8217;t we all?)
Be careful, because if you try out one of Pop Cap&#8217;s many seek and solve games, you may find yourself distracted for hours. Pop Cap games created Bejeweled &#8211; one my all time favourite puzzle games &#8211; so I was excited to experience these new ones.  Pop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More From No Starch – Helping Regular People Do Amazing Things With Technology</title>
		<link>http://www.theopinionatedparent.com/2009/07/02/more-from-no-starch-press/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theopinionatedparent.com/2009/07/02/more-from-no-starch-press/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin-Nicole</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books & Other Reads]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[No Starch is one of our favourite publishing companies &#8211; I think of them as publishers for geeks.  (And that&#8217;s totally a compliment.  I married one.)
Many of their books aren&#8217;t of the parenting variety and don&#8217;t really &#8220;fit&#8221; here, but are applicable to enough of our readers that we like to share them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Canada Day!</title>
		<link>http://www.theopinionatedparent.com/2009/07/01/happy-canada-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theopinionatedparent.com/2009/07/01/happy-canada-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin-Nicole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
It really is the best country on earth.  
We just don&#8217;t brag about it loudly because we don&#8217;t want everyone to move here.
And also?  We make the best beer.  And hockey players.
(Source: &#8220;The best country in the world to live in,&#8221; according to the United Nations Human Development Index)
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		<title>What is Bothering Carl?</title>
		<link>http://www.theopinionatedparent.com/2009/07/01/what-is-bothering-carl/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theopinionatedparent.com/2009/07/01/what-is-bothering-carl/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chelle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Educational]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is Bothering Carl? from Story Fort is a super neat dully digital video game/online interactive story book for kids. In fact, it is the perfect &#8220;video game&#8221; for beginners to begin to develop their computer skills. Carl is a cyclops which unnerved my toddler a little. He kept asking &#8220;Other eye? Other eye?&#8221; but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It’s a bird.  It’s a plane.  No, It’s Super Granny!</title>
		<link>http://www.theopinionatedparent.com/2009/06/30/super-granny/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theopinionatedparent.com/2009/06/30/super-granny/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin-Nicole</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theopinionatedparent.com/?p=2416</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I admit to feeling a lot of envy toward people who live in the same location as their parents.  I&#8217;d love for my kids to see their grandparents more often, but I count my blessings that the times they do have are fun and filled with tons of love.  Being only a few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nozin.  Weird Name For A Strange Product That Works…Naturally.</title>
		<link>http://www.theopinionatedparent.com/2009/06/26/nozin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theopinionatedparent.com/2009/06/26/nozin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin-Nicole</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theopinionatedparent.com/?p=2402</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nozin is a new all-natural, cold and flu prevention product.  It&#8217;s a homeopathic &#8220;nasal sanitizer&#8221; (ugh, right?) that&#8217;s been clinically proven to fight germs for up to eight hours and can help reduce the risk of infection by cold and flu germs at the site where it is most prevalent – the nose. 
It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Say Boogers, And They Will Come</title>
		<link>http://www.theopinionatedparent.com/2009/06/25/the-boogers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin-Nicole</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Giveaway!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tunes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[kids music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Boogers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theopinionatedparent.com/?p=2392</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I&#8217;m sent CD&#8217;s to review, I always feel horrible because they take me forever.  No matter how much my kids and/or I love the music, I just don&#8217;t feel like writing about music very often and I don&#8217;t feel that it&#8217;s exactly my forte.  However, I just couldn&#8217;t wait to tell you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Girls and Self Esteem – The Topic That Never Gets Old</title>
		<link>http://www.theopinionatedparent.com/2009/06/24/exactly-as-i-am/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theopinionatedparent.com/2009/06/24/exactly-as-i-am/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin-Nicole</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theopinionatedparent.com/?p=2383</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not much into celebrity worship.  I have no idea what they&#8217;re wearing, with whom they&#8217;re fornicating or, in many cases, what their names are.  They&#8217;re just people, after all, and are no more special than you or I.  They just have different jobs.  I just read a new book, though, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Best Birth</title>
		<link>http://www.theopinionatedparent.com/2009/06/23/your-best-birth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin-Nicole</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books & Other Reads]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[by Andrea]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theopinionatedparent.com/?p=2247</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A birthing book is an appropriate next step following Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein’s groundbreaking movie, “The Business of Being Born”.  The movie was an eye opener, it left you with your jaw wide open and I think it had a tendency to attract “birth junkies”.  That is a phrase that Ricki Lake [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Casey Jame</title>
		<link>http://www.theopinionatedparent.com/2009/06/22/casey-jame/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theopinionatedparent.com/2009/06/22/casey-jame/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 06:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin-Nicole</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theopinionatedparent.com/?p=2374</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently received a CD by a 13 year old artist named Casey Jame.  Having been told that Casey&#8217;s music is very positive and very safe for kids, I figured it would be the usual kids&#8217; CD.
Let me tell you, it&#8217;s not.  It&#8217;s wonderful, and really is positive and safe, but it&#8217;s also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Predators and Child Molesters</title>
		<link>http://www.theopinionatedparent.com/2009/06/19/predators-and-child-molesters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theopinionatedparent.com/2009/06/19/predators-and-child-molesters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin-Nicole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How&#8217;s that for a title?
Robin Sax is a parent and a prosecutor of people who commit sex crimes against children.  Read that again.  Sex crimes against children.  If that doesn&#8217;t make you throw up in your mouth a little bit, you&#8217;re probably dead.
Robin&#8217;s newest book, Predators and Child Molesters: What Every Parent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tutim NYC</title>
		<link>http://www.theopinionatedparent.com/2009/06/18/tutim-nyc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theopinionatedparent.com/2009/06/18/tutim-nyc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin-Nicole</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accessories, Bangles, Baubles & More]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theopinionatedparent.com/?p=2341</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sick and tired of playing &#8220;find the soother&#8221; when your baby is screaming?  Or maybe you&#8217;re not so fond of the &#8220;I throw it, you pick up eleventy gajillion times&#8221; game?  Sure, it&#8217;s cute at first, but it gets old fast.  Especially when you&#8217;re outside and the surfaces onto which things are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mia MY – Oh My!</title>
		<link>http://www.theopinionatedparent.com/2009/06/17/mia-my/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theopinionatedparent.com/2009/06/17/mia-my/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Admin-Nicole</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theopinionatedparent.com/?p=2332</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Too old for toys, but too young for boys.&#8221; That&#8217;s what newly launched company Mia My has to say about tweens today.  They need support as they deal with physical and emotional changes, and they need their voices to be heard.  They also need to express themselves in ways that those of use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Admin Update (Read: If you only come for reviews &amp; giveaways, you don’t need to read this one.)</title>
		<link>http://www.theopinionatedparent.com/2009/06/16/admin-update/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theopinionatedparent.com/2009/06/16/admin-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Admin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Due to a family funeral (my amazingly awesome 98 year old grandmother), I&#8217;ll be without technology for a week or so.  I&#8217;m going to do my best to pre-schedule as many reviews as possible, but there may be an interruption in posting.  Though we&#8217;ve got a team of 20+ writers, I&#8217;m a one [...]]]></description>
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