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		<title>What&#8217;s Life Like Without the Constant Fear of Predators? Ask Oprah!</title>
		<link>http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/whats-life-like-without-the-constant-fear-of-predators-ask-oprah/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oprah visits  &#8221;the happiest people in the world&#8221; and finds out.
Guess where their kids nap? (First two minutes of 8 minute vid.)

And meantime: HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Give thanks we live in a time when kids are safer than ever before&#8230;even if it&#8217;s hard to convince anyone of this fact. &#8212; Lenore
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		<title>Pathetic Plea for Tech Help</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi. So. Anyone out there who has both cable and TiVO who can figure out how to tape the re-broadcast of the Campbell Brown show on CNN that I was just on and maybe even send me a link, or post it on YouTube, if that is not hidesouly illegal? The show re-airs at 4 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freerangekids.wordpress.com&blog=3396577&post=2028&subd=freerangekids&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CNN, Tonight. Me.</title>
		<link>http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/cnn-tonight-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Folks! I&#8217;ll be on CNN tonight at about 8:30 Eastern Time discussing &#8220;overparenting.&#8221; I feel a little bad for helicopter parents because overnight they&#8217;ve been knocked off their perch, even after it was society that hounded them into doing and buying and fretting in the first place.  That darn pop culture! So hard to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freerangekids.wordpress.com&blog=3396577&post=2025&subd=freerangekids&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>North Pole Back In Business</title>
		<link>http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/north-pole-back-in-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lskenazy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Readers &#8212; Here&#8217;s a happy holiday gift: Santa sanity from the child-overprotecting world. You may recall last week&#8217;s story about  the closing of the North Pole Santa effort for fear of pedophiles mailing themselves to unsuspecting tots. (Or whatever the exact, irrational  &#8221;rationale&#8221; was.) Enjoy this  well-written post about how it all turned [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freerangekids.wordpress.com&blog=3396577&post=2021&subd=freerangekids&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kids Need Dirt. For Real! For their HEALTH!</title>
		<link>http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/kids-need-dirt-for-real-for-their-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Readers &#8212; A bunch of you have been digging (har har) this story about how much protection our kids get from DIRT. This explains my philosophy of housekeeping!
Er&#8230;I mean: This explains my philosophy of childrearing. Anyway, here&#8217;s a bit of the article, by Murrray Wardrop,  in The Telegraph. (For some reason this story got more play [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freerangekids.wordpress.com&blog=3396577&post=2018&subd=freerangekids&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>13-Year-Old Boy Survives 11Days on New York Subway</title>
		<link>http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/13-year-old-boy-survives-11days-on-new-york-subway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lskenazy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a very weird story, but it does prove one thing I&#8217;ve been saying for a while: Kids are not snatched willy-nilly from the New York City subways.
On the other hand, they&#8217;re not noticed for days and days either.
Hmmm. &#8212; Lenore
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		<title>&#8220;Zits&#8221; Explains Why Kids Can&#8217;t Do Anything Anymore</title>
		<link>http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/zits-explains-why-kids-cant-do-anything-anymore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:18:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Zits comics aren&#8217;t cut out and affixed to your refrigerator yet, it&#8217;s only because your kids are still young. Otherwise, you couldn&#8217;t resist. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m glad a reader sent in this one to stick on the collective Free-Range Kids Fridge. For more Zits, click here!
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		<title>Should We Train Our Kids Like Dogs?</title>
		<link>http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/should-we-train-our-kids-like-dogs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:41:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lskenazy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s something to that idea, according to the Motherlode parenting blog in  The New York Times: Take our cue from The Dog Whisperer and give our kids plenty of affection, discipline and  time outside with a bone.
Well, time outside, anyway.
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		<title>Anti-Homework Movement Growing!</title>
		<link>http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/anti-homework-movement-growing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lskenazy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At least it is in Canada, where one family&#8217;s actual contract with their school &#8212; &#8220;We the undersigned shall do no homework, nor shall it be assigned&#8221; (or words to that effect) is roiling the country. Editorials are jumping in on the anti-homework, pro-play, pro-down-time, pro-music, sports and outdoors side! Right on! Here&#8217;s an overview [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freerangekids.wordpress.com&blog=3396577&post=1980&subd=freerangekids&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Outrage of the Week: Saving Children From Mrs. Santa Claus!</title>
		<link>http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/now-were-saving-children-from-mrs-santa-claus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lskenazy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know if this is quite the right expression but: Oy vey! A town in North Carolina has BANNED MRS. CLAUS from its  X-mas parade. Why?
To quote the local News Observer: &#8220;&#8230;John Odom, executive director of the Greater Raleigh Merchants Association, which runs the parade, said it&#8217;s confusing for children to see two people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freerangekids.wordpress.com&blog=3396577&post=1983&subd=freerangekids&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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