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	<title>Straight Dope Dad &#124; 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>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>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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uno for Dose &#8211; Playing Cards With My Daughter</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 01:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Straight Dope Dad</dc:creator>
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		<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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>These Boots Were Made For Walking &#8211; A Child&#8217;s First 97 Steps</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 21:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tomboys, Gender Training, and The Trouble With Stereotypes</title>
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		<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>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 [...]]]></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/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 01:25:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>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 old favorite by Foreigner. But you&#8217;ve got to give me a [...]]]></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>
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		<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>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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Little Arcade Game That Could, and Did, But Shouldn&#8217;t Have</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>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 [...]]]></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/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 05:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>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 [...]]]></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/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 02:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>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 [...]]]></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>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. [...]]]></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>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 [...]]]></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>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 [...]]]></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/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 14:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Straight Dope Dad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[School Stuff - Surviving and Thriving at a Public School]]></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: 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Science Behind Children&#8217;s Appetites &#8211; The Multiple Stomach Chamber Theory</title>
		<link>http://www.straightdopedad.com/the-science-behind-childrens-appetites-the-multiple-stomach-chamber-theory/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightdopedad.com/the-science-behind-childrens-appetites-the-multiple-stomach-chamber-theory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 01:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>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 [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>My Disturbing Google Analytics &#8211; Search Engines, Pedophilia, and The Unexpected Consequences of Having a Parenting Blog</title>
		<link>http://www.straightdopedad.com/my-disturbing-google-analytics-search-engines-pedophilia-and-the-unexpected-consequences-of-having-a-parenting-blog/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightdopedad.com/my-disturbing-google-analytics-search-engines-pedophilia-and-the-unexpected-consequences-of-having-a-parenting-blog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 05:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Straight Dope Dad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Philosophical Parent - Values, Ethics, Morals and Thoughts About Being a Parent and Raising Children]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.straightdopedad.com/?p=1936</guid>
		<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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flame On! &#8211; My Daughter Discovers That Everything Looks Cooler With Hot Rod Flames</title>
		<link>http://www.straightdopedad.com/flame-on-my-daughter-discovers-that-everything-looks-cooler-with-hot-rod-flames/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightdopedad.com/flame-on-my-daughter-discovers-that-everything-looks-cooler-with-hot-rod-flames/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Straight Dope Dad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Educating My Daughter - How We Get Our Learning On]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kids Are Wacky - Curious Stuff My Daughter Does and Thinks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.straightdopedad.com/?p=1888</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Summary: My daughter wanted to know how to draw flames. I showed her some techniques and now she puts them on everything. Since I work at home, and I&#8217;m a professional illustrator, my daughter picks up little techniques just from observing my works in progress. However, sometimes we draw together in the evenings where I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Will Kik Yore Ass Dad!!!! &#8211; My Daughter Learns to Write</title>
		<link>http://www.straightdopedad.com/i-will-kik-yore-ass-dad-my-daughter-learns-to-write/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightdopedad.com/i-will-kik-yore-ass-dad-my-daughter-learns-to-write/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Nov 2010 05:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Straight Dope Dad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Educating My Daughter - How We Get Our Learning On]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kids Are Wacky - Curious Stuff My Daughter Does and Thinks]]></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: Hey, at least she&#8217;s excited about writing. My daughter&#8217;s making invitations to a small Halloween party we&#8217;re having at our house. It&#8217;s so small there is only one other person invited. Originally the annual get together was going to be at her friend&#8217;s house but in a moment of frustration, her mom cancelled the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Millionaire Matchmaker is Fucking Boring &#8211; More Kids and Cussing and The Family Values That Really Matter</title>
		<link>http://www.straightdopedad.com/millionaire-matchmaker-is-fucking-boring-more-kids-and-cussing-and-the-family-values-that-really-matter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.straightdopedad.com/millionaire-matchmaker-is-fucking-boring-more-kids-and-cussing-and-the-family-values-that-really-matter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>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: Profanity rules on broadcast television do not protect children because profanity is a normal experience in most children&#8217;s real lives and have nothing to do with real life threats. So we&#8217;re watching Millionaire Matchmaker on Tivo while our seven-year old daughter holds an elaborate dinner party with her Littlest Pet Shop toys. As she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No More Begging &#8211; The True Story of a Chocolate Lollipop, a Whining Child, the Pacific Ocean, and a Father Who Just Loses It</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 05:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Straight Dope Dad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parenting Marginal Successes - Behavioral Modification Techniques That Sort of Worked]]></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: Kids beg because you teach them to beg. So don&#8217;t teach them. I grew up in a house with a few simple rules, one of which was &#8220;no means no&#8221;. So if you ever wanted something, don&#8217;t keep begging or you&#8217;ll surely doom your chances of ever getting it. My mom never wavered on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Can&#8217;t Control the World&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 18:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Straight Dope Dad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conversations With My Daughter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Summary: My daughter figures out one of life&#8217;s most important lessons at age seven. So we&#8217;re driving around, which for some reason is when our most interesting conversations take place, when she has a most profound moment. &#8220;You can&#8217;t make time. You can make cookies. You can make brownies. But you can&#8217;t make time. At [...]]]></description>
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