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		<title>Table Manners</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have good table manners become a thing of the past?  I personally don&#8217;t think so, but as I look around at the hectic lives that most of us are living these days, I have to wonder if anyone has the time to teach them anymore.  More andmore of us are eating at staggered times, eating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We All Need Reminders</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning in my email I received the following email:
Dear chris,
Oops, [Your child] hasn&#8217;t been doing chores! This is a weekly reminder to ask your kids to login to Handipoints to mark their chores off and claim their points!  Kids earn special prizes in HandiLand for marking off their chores throughout the week.
Keeping up with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Math Skills</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 13:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I volunteered to work at the snack bar at the baseball field where my children play.  I will get to show off my math skills.  Or  not.
One of the mothers who was there said something that I have been mulling over all afternoon.  When I showed up at the snackbar she said, &#8220;You know, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Smoke Alarms Wake Children?</title>
		<link>http://www.handipoints.com/mommypoints/on-the-web/do-smoke-alarms-wake-children/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.handipoints.com/mommypoints/?p=178</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning on the Today show I watched a segment about smoke alarms and their efficacy in waking children.  They showed a family with young elementary school aged children and set off a smoke alarm after they went to sleep for the night.  The results were shocking.  The parents were sure that their children would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Age Should Allowance Start?</title>
		<link>http://www.handipoints.com/mommypoints/children/what-age-should-allowance-start/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allowance]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.handipoints.com/mommypoints/?p=170</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At what age did you start allowance? Mine are 4 and 2. In your universe I&#8217;d give $ to my 4 yo, what about the 2 yo? What happens when 4 yo wants to spend his money and 2 yo doesn&#8217;t have any? Argh, the complications &#8230; right now no one gets anything 
Well, my 3 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Allowance</title>
		<link>http://www.handipoints.com/mommypoints/children/allowance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allowance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh there are so many differing schools of thought on allowance.  Whether or not it should be tied to chores, just given freely, or even if it should be given at all.
I think that having a small amount of money is helpful in teaching them how to budget and save for things.
At my house allowance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Question From The Comments</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.handipoints.com/mommypoints/?p=162</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the comment section of the previous post, Viva, the owner of the Handipoints site, asked:
 Curious to hear what parents think about the idea of adding the feature of restricting time spent in HandiLand by deducting points automatically? For example, in order to enter HandiLand or play a game in HandiLand, kids would have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Positive Reinforcement</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Instilling Values]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.handipoints.com/mommypoints/?p=132</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed that it is really easy to ignore your children when they are  being good?  And then as soon as they act up, or do something naughty you come right down on them?  I know this can&#8217;t just be me.
But some days it seems like an impossible task &#8220;catching&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s that time of year&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
when children fall in love with every single toy that they see in the catalogs.
Today I went to the post office and there was our very first holiday toy catalog.   The children have been pouring over through its pages.  The younger ones pointing to every single thing on the page and saying, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toys, toys, toys</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to toys, I fully embrace the less is more philosophy.
A couple of months ago a friend of mine stopped by my house with her husband in tow.  Funny thing about my friends&#8217; husbands, in the world I live in husbands are sort of like unicorns, you believe they exist, yet you [...]]]></description>
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