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	<title>Straight Dope Dad | A Father&#039;s View on Parenting</title>
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	<description>Fatherhood Advice From a Self Employed Stay at Home Dad. Tricks and Tips for Raising Children.</description>
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		<title>The Wake Up Call &#8211; Learning to Control My Temper So My Daughter Doesn&#8217;t Throw Me to The Wolves</title>
		<link>http://www.straightdopedad.com/the-wake-up-call-learning-to-control-my-temper-so-my-daughter-doesnt-throw-me-to-the-wolves/</link>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Straight Dope Dad]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conversations With My Daughter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Philosophical Parent - Values, Ethics, Morals and Thoughts About Being a Parent and Raising Children]]></category>

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				<description><![CDATA[Summary: Simple things like loosing your temper have far more impact of your kid than you think. About four weeks ago I&#8217;m at Silver Spur having our pre Saturday adventure breakfast with my daughter and her friend. I&#8217;m checking some schedules on my phone to figure out what we should do, and in what order, [&#8230;]<div id="crp_related"> </div>]]></description>
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		<title>Killing One Surfboard With Two Stones</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Straight Dope Dad]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Out and About with My Daughter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parenting Failures - Behavioral Modification Techniques That Failed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Philosophical Parent - Values, Ethics, Morals and Thoughts About Being a Parent and Raising Children]]></category>

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				<description><![CDATA[Summary: Sometimes Redirection Makes a Bad Situation Worse. So I&#8217;m at Capitola Beach picking up my daughter after Junior Guards because it&#8217;s Wednesday, which is laundry day. This means I take over daughter scheduling duties because, as the name implies, my partner is doing laundry instead. Because it&#8217;s Wednesday. Which is laundry day. But it&#8217;s [&#8230;]<div id="crp_related"> </div>]]></description>
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		<title>Wild Child &#8211; Horseplay and Roughhousing Should be Encouraged as Much as Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic</title>
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				<comments>http://www.straightdopedad.com/encouraging-roughhousing-horseplay-and-child-development/#comments</comments>
				<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Straight Dope Dad]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Philosophical Parent - Values, Ethics, Morals and Thoughts About Being a Parent and Raising Children]]></category>

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				<description><![CDATA[Summary: Encouraging Kids, and Especially Girls, to Explore Their Physical Boundaries and the Importance of Horseplay, Roughhousing and Goofing Around to Their Development. It’s Saturday morning and my daughter and her friend are sitting across from me at our favorite breakfast hangout Silver Spur. We’re sitting at the only table that has a wooden bench. [&#8230;]<div id="crp_related"> </div>]]></description>
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		<title>Girls Mature Faster&#8230;Not!</title>
		<link>http://www.straightdopedad.com/girls-mature-faster-than-boys-myth/</link>
				<comments>http://www.straightdopedad.com/girls-mature-faster-than-boys-myth/#comments</comments>
				<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 15:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Straight Dope Dad]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sex, Love, and Relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Philosophical Parent - Values, Ethics, Morals and Thoughts About Being a Parent and Raising Children]]></category>

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				<description><![CDATA[Summary: Only women think men mature late. From a man&#8217;s point of view some women never mature at all. It&#8217;s often said that girls mature faster than boys. I don&#8217;t mean physically as that&#8217;s undisputed &#8211; girls start puberty earlier and finish sooner than boys. I&#8217;m referring to the common use of the term as [&#8230;]<div id="crp_related"> </div>]]></description>
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		<title>Girls Gone Wild No More &#8211; Establishing Boundaries With Hot Chicks and Holding Them Accountable</title>
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				<comments>http://www.straightdopedad.com/girls-gone-wild-no-more-establishing-boundaries-with-hot-chicks-and-holding-them-accountable/#comments</comments>
				<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 15:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Straight Dope Dad]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Philosophical Parent - Values, Ethics, Morals and Thoughts About Being a Parent and Raising Children]]></category>

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				<description><![CDATA[Summary: Stop the Madness. Turning young hot girls into social cripples by giving them whatever they want. I just got back from a nice, calm, small get together at my brother&#8217;s house this 4th of July and it inspired me to finally publish a story that I wrote last 4th of July. My brother, who [&#8230;]<div id="crp_related"> </div>]]></description>
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		<title>Dojo With Mojo – The Day Our Pet Dojo Took A Walk On The Wild Side</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Straight Dope Dad]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Out and About with My Daughter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Philosophical Parent - Values, Ethics, Morals and Thoughts About Being a Parent and Raising Children]]></category>

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				<description><![CDATA[Summary: No matter how bizarre and unlikely, you should take your child seriously when they insist the “impossible” is possible. This story happens during our very recent and very long wet spring. In you live in the bay area our spring was unusually wet. It seemed to rain at least once per week. Besides annoying it [&#8230;]<div id="crp_related"> </div>]]></description>
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		<title>Uno for Dose &#8211; Playing Cards With My Daughter</title>
		<link>http://www.straightdopedad.com/uno-for-dose-playing-cards-with-my-daughter/</link>
				<comments>http://www.straightdopedad.com/uno-for-dose-playing-cards-with-my-daughter/#respond</comments>
				<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 01:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Straight Dope Dad]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conversations With My Daughter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Educating My Daughter - How We Get Our Learning On]]></category>

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				<description><![CDATA[So my daughter and I have been playing Uno in the evenings. It&#8217;s a fun, easy game to wind down the day with, and with two people it goes rather brisk. Skip cards now skips the next hand directly back to yourself. Reverse does the same thing. To make it less painful we allow you [&#8230;]<div id="crp_related"> </div>]]></description>
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		<title>These Boots Were Made For Walking &#8211; A Child&#8217;s First 97 Steps</title>
		<link>http://www.straightdopedad.com/these-boots-were-made-for-walking-a-childs-first-97-steps/</link>
				<comments>http://www.straightdopedad.com/these-boots-were-made-for-walking-a-childs-first-97-steps/#comments</comments>
				<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 21:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Straight Dope Dad]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Out and About with My Daughter]]></category>

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				<description><![CDATA[Summary: A Toddlers Transcendent Stair Climbing Experience leads to Bedtime Nirvana My daughter&#8217;s always been a powerhouse of gross motor skills. The very first time she picked up a spoon she held it like an adult. Same with a pencil. No gorilla grips for her. So when she started walking I was not that surprised [&#8230;]<div id="crp_related"> </div>]]></description>
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		<title>Tomboys, Gender Training, and The Trouble With Stereotypes</title>
		<link>http://www.straightdopedad.com/tomboys-gender-training-and-the-trouble-with-stereo-types/</link>
				<comments>http://www.straightdopedad.com/tomboys-gender-training-and-the-trouble-with-stereo-types/#comments</comments>
				<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 01:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Straight Dope Dad]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conversations With My Daughter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Philosophical Parent - Values, Ethics, Morals and Thoughts About Being a Parent and Raising Children]]></category>

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				<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m doing some gardening when my daughter walks up. &#8220;Am I a tomboy?&#8221; &#8220;Well some may consider you a tomboy because you&#8217;re strong and athletic and like things like dinosaurs, skulls, and boys underwear and swim trunks. But I don&#8217;t like the term tomboy because it implies that a girl should only behave a certain [&#8230;]<div id="crp_related"> </div>]]></description>
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		<title>Are You Hot Mama? Love and Life According to Foreigner&#8217;s Hot Blooded</title>
		<link>http://www.straightdopedad.com/are-you-hot-mamma-love-and-life-according-to-foreigners-hot-blooded/</link>
				<comments>http://www.straightdopedad.com/are-you-hot-mamma-love-and-life-according-to-foreigners-hot-blooded/#respond</comments>
				<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 01:25:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Straight Dope Dad]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conversations With My Daughter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Philosophical Parent - Values, Ethics, Morals and Thoughts About Being a Parent and Raising Children]]></category>

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				<description><![CDATA[Summary: Tens seconds of classic rock leads to ten minutes of relationship talk. I&#8217;m on the way to the boardwalk with my daughter and her good friend when I click on the classic rock station to clear my head. Wouldn&#8217;t you know it, it&#8217;s an old favorite by Foreigner. But you&#8217;ve got to give me [&#8230;]<div id="crp_related"> </div>]]></description>
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		<title>Dealing With a Toddler&#8217;s Violent Temper Tantrums &#8211; How to Handle a Child Who&#8217;s Out of Control</title>
		<link>http://www.straightdopedad.com/violent-temper-tantrums-how-to-handle-a-kid-whos-out-of-control/</link>
				<comments>http://www.straightdopedad.com/violent-temper-tantrums-how-to-handle-a-kid-whos-out-of-control/#comments</comments>
				<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 21:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Straight Dope Dad]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parenting Successes - Behavioral Modification Techniques That Succeeded]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Philosophical Parent - Values, Ethics, Morals and Thoughts About Being a Parent and Raising Children]]></category>

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				<description><![CDATA[Summary &#8211; Sometimes it&#8217;s not about solving a problem but about rolling with the punches&#8230;literally. How I rode out four hard years of tough tantrums from toddler, to preschool, to kindergarten. As much of a fan I am of modern parenting techniques and philosophies they also assume a certain basic level of civility and compliance [&#8230;]<div id="crp_related"> </div>]]></description>
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		<title>The Little Arcade Game That Could, and Did, But Shouldn&#8217;t Have</title>
		<link>http://www.straightdopedad.com/the-little-arcade-game-that-could-and-did-but-shouldnt-have/</link>
				<comments>http://www.straightdopedad.com/the-little-arcade-game-that-could-and-did-but-shouldnt-have/#comments</comments>
				<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Straight Dope Dad]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Out and About with My Daughter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Philosophical Parent - Values, Ethics, Morals and Thoughts About Being a Parent and Raising Children]]></category>

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				<description><![CDATA[Summary. The sociopolitical implications of miniature golf and a broken arcade game redistributes the wealth. It&#8217;s two weeks before the new year and we&#8217;re burning through our coupon book for the Santa Cruz beach boardwalk. You see, every year we get a year pass, and with that pass comes a coupon book.  Unfortunately most of [&#8230;]<div id="crp_related"> </div>]]></description>
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		<title>Th&#8217;s Versus F&#8217;s &#8211; A Child Learns Her &#8220;TH&#8221; Sounds</title>
		<link>http://www.straightdopedad.com/ths-versus-fs-a-child-learns-her-th-sounds/</link>
				<comments>http://www.straightdopedad.com/ths-versus-fs-a-child-learns-her-th-sounds/#respond</comments>
				<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 05:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Straight Dope Dad]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conversations With My Daughter]]></category>

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				<description><![CDATA[My daughter has a bit of a problem hitting her &#8220;thuuu&#8221; sounds. Many times they come out as an &#8220;fuuu&#8221; sound. Now this is really common and it&#8217;s not a speech problem because she can hit the &#8220;thuuu&#8221; if she concentrates. Me, my partner and my daughter are in the car on the way to [&#8230;]<div id="crp_related"> </div>]]></description>
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		<title>Boys Gone Wild &#8211; It Takes a Village at the Family Fun Center</title>
		<link>http://www.straightdopedad.com/boys-gone-wild-it-takes-a-village-at-the-family-fun-center/</link>
				<comments>http://www.straightdopedad.com/boys-gone-wild-it-takes-a-village-at-the-family-fun-center/#respond</comments>
				<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 02:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Straight Dope Dad]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Out and About with My Daughter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Philosophical Parent - Values, Ethics, Morals and Thoughts About Being a Parent and Raising Children]]></category>

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				<description><![CDATA[Summary &#8211; Not all boys are destructive, but nearly every destructive person is a boy. That&#8217;s not a value judgment it&#8217;s just a reality. If you want to see why the world is the way it is just go hang out a family entertainment center and watch the action. In San Jose there&#8217;s a killer [&#8230;]<div id="crp_related"> </div>]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Talk About Death. Or Not.</title>
		<link>http://www.straightdopedad.com/lets-talk-about-death-or-not/</link>
				<comments>http://www.straightdopedad.com/lets-talk-about-death-or-not/#comments</comments>
				<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 23:11:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Straight Dope Dad]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Philosophical Parent - Values, Ethics, Morals and Thoughts About Being a Parent and Raising Children]]></category>

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				<description><![CDATA[Summary: Kids can handle the truth. They can handle death.  It&#8217;s adults than need happy stories to ease their discomfort. When it comes to the big &#8220;D&#8221; parents just fall apart. They use euphemisms and abstractions when explaining it to their children. To complicate matters, most parents believe in some kind of life after death. [&#8230;]<div id="crp_related"> </div>]]></description>
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		<title>The Curses and Blessings of The Human Male Mind</title>
		<link>http://www.straightdopedad.com/the-curses-and-blessings-of-the-human-male-mind/</link>
				<comments>http://www.straightdopedad.com/the-curses-and-blessings-of-the-human-male-mind/#comments</comments>
				<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 23:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Straight Dope Dad]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Philosophical Parent - Values, Ethics, Morals and Thoughts About Being a Parent and Raising Children]]></category>

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				<description><![CDATA[Summary: Male energy is a wonderful and silly thing. Well, at least I think so. A couple of years ago I&#8217;m walking out to waves to go surf. It&#8217;s low tide so it&#8217;s a pretty long walk along rock reef that&#8217;s full of nooks and pits. I&#8217;m up to my knees when I see a [&#8230;]<div id="crp_related"> </div>]]></description>
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		<title>Help, Is There a Smart Ass In the House?</title>
		<link>http://www.straightdopedad.com/help-is-there-a-smart-ass-in-the-house/</link>
				<comments>http://www.straightdopedad.com/help-is-there-a-smart-ass-in-the-house/#comments</comments>
				<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 17:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Straight Dope Dad]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Out and About with My Daughter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Philosophical Parent - Values, Ethics, Morals and Thoughts About Being a Parent and Raising Children]]></category>

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				<description><![CDATA[Summary: Everyone needs a smart ass friend who will just tell it like it is. This story takes place two years ago at Blue Ball Park. Yes, that&#8217;s a funny name, and no it isn&#8217;t the real name. The real name is Anna Jean Cummings. I know, not much better. The common name is a [&#8230;]<div id="crp_related"> </div>]]></description>
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		<title>Girls Love Basketball Just as Much as Boys &#8211; At Least at First</title>
		<link>http://www.straightdopedad.com/girls-love-basketball-just-as-much-as-boys-at-least-at-first/</link>
				<comments>http://www.straightdopedad.com/girls-love-basketball-just-as-much-as-boys-at-least-at-first/#respond</comments>
				<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 14:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Straight Dope Dad]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[School Stuff - Surviving and Thriving at a Public School]]></category>
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				<description><![CDATA[Summary: How I became a parent PE volunteer for my daughter&#8217;s class and my surprise at how much little girls love basketball. For seven years we (ie. my partner) had a rule. She gets to sleep in on Saturdays and I take care of our daughter and keep her out of her hair. Since Saturdays [&#8230;]<div id="crp_related"> </div>]]></description>
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		<title>The Science Behind Children&#8217;s Appetites &#8211; The Multiple Stomach Chamber Theory</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 01:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Straight Dope Dad]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Philosophical Parent - Values, Ethics, Morals and Thoughts About Being a Parent and Raising Children]]></category>

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				<description><![CDATA[Summary: The shocking truth about why your child has limited room for broccoli but seemingly infinite room for desert. So I&#8217;m feeding my daughter dinner. &#8220;I&#8217;m full. I want some more pasta.&#8221; &#8220;But you still have more broccoli left.&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;m just full for broccoli. I&#8217;m not full for pasta.&#8221; Huh? How is this possible. It [&#8230;]<div id="crp_related"> </div>]]></description>
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		<title>My Disturbing Google Analytics &#8211; Search Engines, Pedophilia, and The Unexpected Consequences of Having a Parenting Blog</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 05:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Summary &#8211; If you have a parenting blog you will most likely attract a few pedophiles. Sad but true. Plus bonus tips on how to reduce your parenting blog&#8217;s attractiveness to pedophiles. There are unintended consequences to everything and blogging about fatherhood is no exception. Now being a father with a daughter, I&#8217;m naturally going [&#8230;]<div id="crp_related"> </div>]]></description>
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