<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>Parenting 101 - Answering your kids' questions : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/"/><tagline>Parenting 101 - Answering your kids' questions : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2009, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2009-12-02T09:56:26+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[Parenting 101 - Answering your kids' questions]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/126449/1/" /><id>126449</id><summary><![CDATA[Parenting 101 - Answering your kids' questions]]></summary><issued>2009-07-02T10:22:45+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-02T10:22:45+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Asking &#8220;why&#8221; is one of the most important strategies children have for connecting with their caregivers and learning about the world around them. Here's an informative guide on how to answer it.]]></content></entry><hr size='1' class='line' noshade/><div style='padding-top:20px;height:300px;margin-right:10px;float:left;'><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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</script></div><entry><title><![CDATA[Whyzz answers your kids' questions for you]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/88983/1/" /><id>88983</id><summary><![CDATA[Whyzz answers your kids' questions for you]]></summary><issued>2009-01-12T09:22:45+01:00</issued><modified>2009-01-12T09:22:45+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A useful site I came across that really helps you as a parent]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Answer to the Questions Every Kid Asks]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/58766/1/" /><id>58766</id><summary><![CDATA[The Answer to the Questions Every Kid Asks]]></summary><issued>2008-04-17T22:53:28+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-17T22:53:28+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Those pesky questions every kid asks, such as &quot;Why is my pee yellow?&quot; or &quot;Why are my hands all wrinkly after I take a bath?&quot; or my favorite, &quot;Why do boys have nipples?&quot;<br/><br/>I do recall asking some of these questions...]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Praise and liar liars: Parenting tips]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/133853/1/" /><id>133853</id><summary><![CDATA[Praise and liar liars: Parenting tips]]></summary><issued>2009-09-29T22:33:08+01:00</issued><modified>2009-09-29T22:33:08+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Author Po Bronson believes that kids today hear too much praise &#8212; much of it unearned. &quot;Children today hear so much praise that they have decoded its real meaning,&quot; he explains.<br/>In addition to praise, Bronson and Merryman also tackle the subject of why children lie &#8212; and what parents can do about it. Lying, Bronson says, is a normal part of development.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[10 answers to kid's tricky questions]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/130867/1/" /><id>130867</id><summary><![CDATA[10 answers to kid's tricky questions]]></summary><issued>2009-08-16T12:28:37+01:00</issued><modified>2009-08-16T12:28:37+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[BBC Magazine asked ten questions provided by children in light of the statistic that four out of five parents have been stumped by a questions asked by their child.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Kids hate clowns, research shows]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/47405/1/" /><id>47405</id><summary><![CDATA[Kids hate clowns, research shows]]></summary><issued>2008-01-16T00:45:26+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-16T00:45:26+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Bad news for Coco and Blinko &#8211; British children don't like clowns and even older kids are scared of them. The news that will no doubt have clowns shedding tears was revealed in a poll of youngsters by researchers from the University of Sheffield who examined how to improve the decor of children's wards in hospitals.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Child-rearing costs $221,000]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/129927/1/" /><id>129927</id><summary><![CDATA[Child-rearing costs $221,000]]></summary><issued>2009-08-04T23:11:20+01:00</issued><modified>2009-08-04T23:11:20+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[It's no secret that raising children can be expensive, but how about nearly a quarter of a million dollars expensive?<br/><br/>A government report released Tuesday says a middle-income family with a child born last year will spend about $221,000 raising that child through age 17.<br/>*and that's not including related costs such as daycare or college*]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA['Not Having Kids' Is the New 'Having Kids']]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/130252/1/" /><id>130252</id><summary><![CDATA['Not Having Kids' Is the New 'Having Kids']]></summary><issued>2009-08-08T21:03:28+01:00</issued><modified>2009-08-08T21:03:28+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The Way We Live Now: Alone. Abandon the kids! Or better yet, don't have the kids in the first place. They're the reason you're broke. And they'll just grow up to hide out in tax havens and rob taco trucks.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Teacher accused of leaving her children in car ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/14293/1/" /><id>14293</id><summary><![CDATA[Teacher accused of leaving her children in car ]]></summary><issued>2007-03-27T16:51:51+01:00</issued><modified>2007-03-27T16:51:51+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Turns out, it was her children, and they had allegedly been there in the car since 8 a.m. Tuesday morning,&quot; Johnson said]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Kids In Mind]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/59144/1/" /><id>59144</id><summary><![CDATA[Kids In Mind]]></summary><issued>2008-04-21T15:50:04+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-21T15:50:04+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Enables adults to determine whether a movie is appropriate for them or their children, according to their own criteria. They use 3 objective ratings for SEX/NUDITY, VIOLENCE/GORE &amp; PROFANITY on a scale of 0 to 10. Messages, discussion topics and more are discussed as well.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Older dads more likely to have bipolar kids]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/74688/1/" /><id>74688</id><summary><![CDATA[Older dads more likely to have bipolar kids]]></summary><issued>2008-09-03T11:33:41+01:00</issued><modified>2008-09-03T11:33:41+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Kids born to new dads over 50 are 2.5 times more likely to have bipolar disorder than kids with dads in their mid-20s. Probably has something to do with the overwhelming desire to call their dads &quot;Gramps&quot;.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[NJ dad who named kids after Nazis decries removal: &quot;I Love My Little Hitler&quot;]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/92198/1/" /><id>92198</id><summary><![CDATA[NJ dad who named kids after Nazis decries removal: &quot;I Love My Little Hitler&quot;]]></summary><issued>2009-02-01T15:48:15+01:00</issued><modified>2009-02-01T15:48:15+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The father of three children who have names associated with Nazis is accusing the state Division of Youth and Family Services of taking his children under false pretenses and says one of the kids appeared neglected when he saw them last week.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Is Conditional Parenting Bad For Children?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/133088/1/" /><id>133088</id><summary><![CDATA[Is Conditional Parenting Bad For Children?]]></summary><issued>2009-09-16T15:52:33+01:00</issued><modified>2009-09-16T15:52:33+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Should you love your children unconditionally or should you dole out love only when they behave? Do your children become better adults if you are selective about your approvals &#8211; like many of the new parenting advice books say?<br/><br/>Author Alfie Kohn wrote an interesting article for The New York Times wrote about some interesting studies on conditional parenting]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Do kids who are tested frequently learn more than kids who aren't?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/75002/1/" /><id>75002</id><summary><![CDATA[Do kids who are tested frequently learn more than kids who aren't?]]></summary><issued>2008-09-05T09:28:05+01:00</issued><modified>2008-09-05T09:28:05+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Psychologists and educators are very interested in these questions, and in the related question: What's the best way to study?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Adventures of Little Batman]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/49261/1/" /><id>49261</id><summary><![CDATA[The Adventures of Little Batman]]></summary><issued>2008-02-02T16:43:35+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-02T16:43:35+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[This is the greatest Batman ever, almost the entire cast is little kids, with awesome props, costumes, and even a mini Batmobile! Batman and Robin, The Penguin, The Riddler, Catwoman, The Joker, The Commissioner... ALL KIDS! <br/><br/>You have to watch this! (Part II and III in Comments)]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Foreign policy 101: Teach kids key languages]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/73499/1/" /><id>73499</id><summary><![CDATA[Foreign policy 101: Teach kids key languages]]></summary><issued>2008-08-25T08:03:15+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-25T08:03:15+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The class is a result of the National Security Language Initiative, introduced by President Bush in 2006 to teach the youngest students Chinese and other foreign languages considered critical to the nation's future security.<br/><br/>&quot;We're going to teach our kids how to speak important languages,&quot; he said. One goal, he added, was &quot;to advance America's interests around the world, and defeat this notion about our - you know our bullying concept of freedom by letting people see what we're about.&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Dad arrested for making kids ride in trunk during family road trip]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/14890/1/" /><id>14890</id><summary><![CDATA[Dad arrested for making kids ride in trunk during family road trip]]></summary><issued>2007-04-01T23:01:08+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-01T23:01:08+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An Oregon man on vacation with his family is accused of putting two of his four children in a car trunk because the vehicle was too small to hold all of them. Good thing they didn't bring Grandma!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Woman Gives Birth to 18th Child]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/70227/1/" /><id>70227</id><summary><![CDATA[Woman Gives Birth to 18th Child]]></summary><issued>2008-07-27T09:18:49+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-27T09:18:49+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Alexandru Ionce and his wife never planned to have 18 children in 23 years but when they welcomed little Abigail Ionce into the world, that's just what happened.<br/><br/>(Boy does she look tired!)]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Obama, McCain talk issues at pastor's forum]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/74155/1/" /><id>74155</id><summary><![CDATA[Obama, McCain talk issues at pastor's forum]]></summary><issued>2008-08-29T12:17:27+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-29T12:17:27+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[If you go to this website on CNN, you can see the discussion!  It was set up in a way for each candidate to answer questions that were not typically on the campaign trial of questions.  Each candidate had their own time to talk and neither one heard what the other was saying- this was NOT a debate!  Check it out- it's VERY interesting to hear the answers from each candidate with the same question being asked!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Parenting (Pics) ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44549/1/" /><id>44549</id><summary><![CDATA[Parenting (Pics) ]]></summary><issued>2007-12-18T00:16:58+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-18T00:16:58+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Apparantly,parenting is not so hard..]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Britney Spears seeks parenting advice from Michael Jackson]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/38568/1/" /><id>38568</id><summary><![CDATA[Britney Spears seeks parenting advice from Michael Jackson]]></summary><issued>2007-10-16T23:15:27+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-16T23:15:27+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Please God make this story false.<br/>Britney is allegedly asking Michael &quot;I luuuuv widdle boys&quot; Jackson for parenting advice, adding that he didn't lose custody of his kids. <br/>Britney, you made good money, but you just don't have the kind of money MJ needed to get away with his atrocities.]]></content></entry></feed>