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	<title>Doodaddy &#187; behavior</title>
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	<description>A San Francisco stay-at-home dad getting the hang of things.</description>
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		<title>The Girl Who Saves Dryer Lint</title>
		<link>http://doodaddy.net/2010/04/28/the-girl-who-saves-dryer-lint/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I contemplate the garbage. Every time I throw something away, I have to consider: can anything visible be construed as treasure? 
And Fern, god love her, can sure construe. 
Tonight I excavated from what Fern calls my “treasure pocket” the following haul: four Band-Aid wrappers, a sheet of clear plastic wrap, the hanging tag from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Girl Fight!</title>
		<link>http://doodaddy.net/2009/11/19/girl-fight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was secretly glad the shop ladies were arguing. 
Not because I’m one of those freaks who likes to watch conflict; in fact, I usually go out of my way to avoid it. But today we were in a cute store with piles of kid clothes and toys, the kind of store known in our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weird Science</title>
		<link>http://doodaddy.net/2009/10/28/weird-science/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doodaddy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Minor inferno at lunchtime today. It was completely my fault &#8212; I lost track of the time and Fern hadn’t eaten in three hours. She was running on empty, and beside herself, screaming something about not wanting to wear the dress that she really wanted to wear that she couldn’t wear.
I tried logic, I tried [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leaf Hoarder</title>
		<link>http://doodaddy.net/2009/09/23/leaf-hoarder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doodaddy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t like to pathologize kids’ quirks, but sometimes my daughter is a nutcase. 




Kissing a swallowtail.




Fern&#8217;s always had a thing for nature, probably down to all the snails and millipedes I forced on her as an infant. I push her to grow up as &#34;the naturalist&#8217;s daughter&#34; (and yes, thanks, I do realize that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Misguided Pride</title>
		<link>http://doodaddy.net/2009/09/17/misguided-pride/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doodaddy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am proud of the weirdest things. 
I’m proud that Fern just hit 40 pounds and 3’ 6” tall (or 2.85 stone, 10.5 hands). So what if at a bare three-and-a-half years old she has already grown out of kiddie rides? I glow at her 93rd percentile scores, the ones the doctors say you shouldn’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad, Worse, Worsted</title>
		<link>http://doodaddy.net/2009/09/01/bad-worse-worsted/</link>
		<comments>http://doodaddy.net/2009/09/01/bad-worse-worsted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doodaddy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My bad days probably don’t seem that bad from the outside: I bribe Fern with salty snacks to be quiet while I put the baby to bed, I miss a hair-brushing or a book-reading. Big deal, right?




Channeling me?




Then there are the worse days, when I’ve stayed up too late and now there’s a writing deadline [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My daughter, future cutter</title>
		<link>http://doodaddy.net/2009/07/29/my-daughter-future-cutter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doodaddy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From my conversation with Boo during a hike today. She’d earlier gotten a scratch on her foot.




Cellphone cap of the              window to the soul.




“Sometimes I like boo-boos and sometimes I don’t like boo-boos. I like boo-boos because I like the blood. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Children are Crazy</title>
		<link>http://doodaddy.net/2009/07/17/children-are-crazy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doodaddy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently stumbled across a truism that instantly saved me from most of the emotional head-butting that had become a daily feature of my relationship with Boo:
Children are crazy. 
Consider this monologue, reported here as close to verbatim as possible: &#8220;Do you want to hear the song I just wrote about a horse named Rahm? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My daughter, the herding dog</title>
		<link>http://doodaddy.net/2009/05/15/my-daughter-the-herding-dog/</link>
		<comments>http://doodaddy.net/2009/05/15/my-daughter-the-herding-dog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 22:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doodaddy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever known a border collie? I met one once at a cafe whose life revolved around fetch. The entire hour or so I was there she spent in retrieving the ball her owner tossed for her about five feet away &#8212; over and over and over again. I bet she&#8217;d done it five [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Boobaby (part XXXIX)</title>
		<link>http://doodaddy.net/2009/05/03/dear-boobaby-part-xxxix/</link>
		<comments>http://doodaddy.net/2009/05/03/dear-boobaby-part-xxxix/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 06:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>doodaddy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Boobaby,



                                 
Images of Month XXXIX




&#34;Boots beets bats beets toots.     Beets abby do ba dee do    [...]]]></description>
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