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		<title>Another Problem with Pain</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Henry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2014 18:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[aching back]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[back injury]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[C.S. Lewis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grief]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today, after writing this, I am going to go work out for the first time in over a year. Walking, biking, weight lifting, calisthenics, and now even rowing on a machine are ways I have stayed (semi) fit throughout my 44 years. Exercising is how I cope when angry, relax when stressed, sort through idea [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What Children&#8217;s Stories Say About Parenting</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/wholemama/2014/01/what-childrens-stories-say-about-parenting/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Henry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2014 23:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alexander and the Terrible]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amy Ruth Henry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicken Little]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child-rearing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cinderella]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[effective parenting]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Miss Nelson is Missing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Country Bunny]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Emperor's New Clothes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Giving Tree]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Little Engine That Could]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Magic Fish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Mitten]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Pied Piper of Hamelin]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Story of Ferdinand]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Tired of parenting books that make you feel like a failure? Story Mama, gleans parenting advice from an unlikely, but delightful place: classic children’s literature.   Beloved stories like Where the Wild Things Are, The Velveteen Rabbit, and Make Way for Ducklings serve as jumping off points for writer and mom of six, Amy Henry, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What Your Kids Really Want for Christmas</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/wholemama/2012/12/what-your-kids-really-want-for-christmas/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Henry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wholemama/?p=710</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[When my son, Ben, was four years old a friend of ours came and visited for the afternoon. For hours, the two of them wrestled, told jokes to each other, and laughed at Randy’s Looney Tunes impersonations. That night, when I asked Ben what he loved most about Randy, he said, “He just be’s wif me.” [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What Christmas is Really About</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/wholemama/2012/12/what-christmas-is-really-about/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Henry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 20:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[(This piece was first published in my 10yo daughter’s blog. She gave me permission to print it here, too.) Christmas; if you ask any child in the world to describe it, they would tell you that it is by far the best time of the year, full of presents, secrecy, and an endless flow of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How Not to Miss Christmas</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/wholemama/2012/11/how-not-to-miss-christmas/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Henry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christmas 2012]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last year we missed Christmas. I mean, we opened presents and drank egg nog and everything, but somehow none of us felt like we had a Christmas. This year, I want it to be different. A few weeks ago I was overcome by the sensation that I was not alive. I was a person who [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Finding Rest&#8230;Just in Time for Thanksgiving</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/wholemama/2012/11/finding-rest-just-in-time-for-thanksgiving/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Henry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[burn-out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exhaustion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[holidays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[needing rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thanksgiving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[THANKSGIVING 2012. being grateful]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’m gonna be real honest with you: I’m pooped. I don’t mean tired. I don’t mean exhausted. I mean, across the boards, Done. In. It started with playing single mommy for four months while Ian was away for military training and it is ending (note the optimism here) TODAY. Quite literally, because his ‘seasoning days’ (whatever [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What I Wish I&#8217;d Known When I Was a Young Mama</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/wholemama/2012/10/what-i-wish-id-known-when-i-was-a-young-mama/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Henry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[advice to new moms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[joyful mothering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mignon McLaughlin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[older mom's advice to younger moms]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ah, how exciting. All these years of writing and blogging and today I get to write the post that’s been on my mind since 2002… Because, when I was a young mama, this is the kind of stuff I needed…another mom, a bit further down the mothering road than I was, but not so far [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Parenting in that &#8216;Just Right&#8217; Place</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/wholemama/2012/10/parenting-in-that-just-right-place/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Henry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 18:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amy Ruth Henry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goldilocks and the Three Bears]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parenting on the poles]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[(I’m continuing my series of workbook-type posts for each story in my book…Today’s is Goldilocks and The Three Bears, where we have two opposite mamas, Softie Mama, and Harsh Mama and are learning to mother in between the two). *** Are you more like Softie Mama or like Harsh Mama? For those of you who [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>&#8216;Bastard&#8217; and Other Things This Mama No Longer Worries About</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/wholemama/2012/10/bastard-and-other-things-this-mama-no-longer-worries-about/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Henry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[sibling rivalry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teenaged boys]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The offense? Stolen Buffalo/Ranch Doritos. The culprit? A brother, off on a trip with his dad. “You bastard!” other brother yells. He was hungry and, thus, the epitaph, shot through the iPhone, three hundred miles away. There was a day, not so many years ago, when such brotherly communication would pull me up short. I’d [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Parenting Your Younger Kids:  Slacking Off or Getting Wiser?</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/wholemama/2012/10/parenting-your-younger-kids-slacking-off-or-getting-wiser/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Henry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[older siblings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[raising teenagers alongside younger children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sibling rivalry]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you are raising younger kids alongside older kids you probably hear this twice a week: “Why do you let Jonny (fill-in-the-blank)? I never got to (fill-in-the-blank) when I was his age!” Or, “Are you going to get Jonny get away with that? If I had done that at his age, you would have whooped [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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