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		<title>Inevitability</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The jackhammers and semi-trailers notwithstanding, 14-month old Claudia has fallen asleep in the car seat again. We&#8217;ve just dropped Fern at her afternoon nursery school program, and, free of kids’ music at last, I&#8217;m blasting NPR with the bass turned up high, like the dorky hoodlum that I am. Then it starts to hail and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baby Skid Marks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pity the second child, again. She’s been to the playground maybe a dozen times in her whole life, when at her age her sister was there at least three times a week. On the blacktop One thing I don’t miss, though, is rubber-tire laundry. San Francisco has been renovating its playgrounds for a decade or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thankful for Chair Covers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Did you kiss the chair with a mouthful of watermelon?&#8221; &#8220;No, daddy!&#8221; Uh-huh.]]></description>
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		<title>Day 1 of the Rest of my Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A combination of lucky timing, a well-scheduled playdate, and two girls on their best behavior brought my first-day-after-maternity-leave panic down to a manageable jitter. We did fine. Best of all, I feel like a professional again. Even before the Blueberry came along, I was starting to worry that the world wasn&#8217;t getting a 40-hour workweek [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scary Day Eve</title>
		<link>http://doodaddy.net/2009/02/08/scary-day-eve/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 06:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do these things have in common: my astronomy final my first day of teaching solo tomorrow morning Answer? Things I&#8217;m Not Ready For. Today, Sunday, is the last day of my Working Mom&#8217;s maternity leave, which at nearly three months was generous by U.S. standards but I must be channelling my inner European because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday Surprise #1: On Vacuum Cleaner Bags</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you have a toddler, vacuum cleaner bags fill up about three times as fast. Them goldfish are bulky.]]></description>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s With a Bang</title>
		<link>http://doodaddy.net/2009/01/01/new-years-with-a-bang/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boo, who is the most proprioceptive kid I&#8217;ve ever met, has hit her head four times today. Inner ear stuffiness? A cold coming on? Attention-seeking? Or, and I think this is the most likely, maybe she&#8217;s testing my ability not to stress out about things like children hitting their heads, even on New Year&#8217;s Day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Laundry Every Day, and Other Advice for the At-Home Parent</title>
		<link>http://doodaddy.net/2008/10/22/do-laundry-every-day-and-other-advice-for-the-at-home-parent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I usually try to avoid &#8220;advising&#8221; people too much about parenting. For one thing, direct advice never works without a long period of listening and sympathy &#8212; that&#8217;s why those little pearls of wisdom you get from strangers never ring true, even when they might be pretty accurate. &#8220;You shouldn&#8217;t let your daughter walk around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Ways to Get the Kids to Love You: What it&#8217;s like to be a stay-at-home dad, Answer 7.</title>
		<link>http://doodaddy.net/2008/10/10/10-ways-to-get-the-kids-to-love-you-what-its-like-to-be-a-stay-at-home-dad-answer-7/</link>
		<comments>http://doodaddy.net/2008/10/10/10-ways-to-get-the-kids-to-love-you-what-its-like-to-be-a-stay-at-home-dad-answer-7/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I complain about being too noticed, not noticed enough, and noticed in the wrong way. None of that matters even a little bit, though, because kids &#8212; not all kids, but enough &#8212; love me. I&#8217;m mature enough to acknowledge that this popularity has absolutely nothing to do with me. I brainwash the kids into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday Confessional XV</title>
		<link>http://doodaddy.net/2008/07/13/sunday-confessional-xv/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I dislike those rare occasions when I&#8217;m called upon to &#8220;represent&#8221; stay-at-home dads, because I don&#8217;t feel like I have much in common with them.]]></description>
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