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		<title>Bribe and Switch</title>
		<link>http://doodaddy.net/2011/04/27/bribe-and-switch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After preschool drop-off is supposed to be naptime for toddlers, but we&#8217;ve got neighbors coming for dinner and we desperately need at least a single grape or stick of broccoli or something to show that we do, in fact, eat vitamins here. But sleepy Claudia generates her own gravity, and that&#8217;s hard to fight &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Preschooler Security Agency</title>
		<link>http://doodaddy.net/2010/08/11/the-preschooler-security-agency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fern had a little cut on her toe yesterday, and somewhere in the periphery of my toddler-addled brain I heard her friends &#8212; over for a playdate &#8212; plan to put a bandage on it. &#34;How cute,&#34; I thought, as I continued to play with little Claudia. &#34;They&#8217;re going to find her a Band-Aid.&#34; It [...]]]></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 [...]]]></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>
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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 [...]]]></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>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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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 [...]]]></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>
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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 blood washes the boo-boo out. I want to get a boo-boo.” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Children are Crazy</title>
		<link>http://doodaddy.net/2009/07/17/children-are-crazy/</link>
		<comments>http://doodaddy.net/2009/07/17/children-are-crazy/#comments</comments>
		<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 [...]]]></description>
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