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	<title>Mommy Points &#187; Instilling Values</title>
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		<title>A Summer Pastime</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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What kids haven&#8217;t dreamed of setting up a lemonade stand on a hot summer day?
My children and some of their friends set one up this weekend.
They built the stand themselves with scrap wood and nails.  My word, the number of nails they used.  Let&#8217;s just say we should huddle under this should a tornado come through.
After sitting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Chores As A Learning Tool, or Some Might Say Punishment</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ages 7 -9 years]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.handipoints.com/mommypoints/?p=374</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday my 8 yr old son broke the glass in the front door of our house.  He threw a golf ball at it.  For reasons that are only known to an 8 yr old and defy any sort of adult reason or logic.
The glass needs to be replaced and is expensive.  Just how expensive I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Chores</title>
		<link>http://www.handipoints.com/mommypoints/children/winter-chores/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago we had a huge ice storm that brought down trees and branches, scattering them all over the yard.  Then the weather decided to dump snow on top of the ice and the frozen branches stuck in the ice.  And I promptly forgot all about the mess that lurked beneath the nice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Much Is Too Much?</title>
		<link>http://www.handipoints.com/mommypoints/instilling-values/how-much-is-too-much/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Instilling Values]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.handipoints.com/mommypoints/?p=251</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week when I was on one of the many. many airplanes that I crisscrossed the country in, I had a conversation with a man sitting next to me.  His children were both grown, in their mid twenties, and he was lamenting the fact that neither of them had jobs, real jobs.  They were both still sort [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spring Cleaning</title>
		<link>http://www.handipoints.com/mommypoints/children/spring-cleaning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chores]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Keeping It Real]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Making It Work]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really like to clean. For the record there are plenty of other things that I don&#8217;t like to do.  Like fold laundry and put it away. Pull weeds in my garden.  Unload the dishwasher.
This past weekend I did a deep cleaning of our family room.  I wasn&#8217;t expecting it to take quite as long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Earth Day!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:24:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Instilling Values]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How will you recognize it?
Today we are as a family trying to have a zero garbage day.  Just a fun thing to do and hopefully make the kids realize the amount of garbage that we generate daily.  I am curious to see if this little experiment causes them to rethink some of their choices are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Co-operation</title>
		<link>http://www.handipoints.com/mommypoints/children/co-operation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ages 2-4 years]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ages 5-6 years]]></category>
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Sometimes it is just the little things.

Instilling the helper mentality while they are little is so much easier than trying to fix it later when they are older.  Even though sometimes it might not seem like help, let them do it anyway.
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		<title>Going to the The-AY-ter</title>
		<link>http://www.handipoints.com/mommypoints/just-for-fun/going-to-the-the-ay-ter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.handipoints.com/mommypoints/just-for-fun/going-to-the-the-ay-ter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Instilling Values]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a child I lived in a cozy little suburb close to NYC.  I went to Broadway shows frequently.   I loved going to the theater.  And when I could convince my mother she would take me to the local dinner theater.  What could be better than eating a meal AND watching a show.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teach Your Children (to Lie) Well</title>
		<link>http://www.handipoints.com/mommypoints/on-the-web/teach-your-children-to-lie-well/</link>
		<comments>http://www.handipoints.com/mommypoints/on-the-web/teach-your-children-to-lie-well/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Instilling Values]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you all read this story?
Hardly anything shocks me anymore.  I realize that there are people who lie, cheat, scam other people.  But this did shock me.
Maybe because it is the mother who helped orchestrate the lie so that her daughter could get free Hannah Montana tickets.  She had her six year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raising Children with Integrity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2007 03:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I read this article. 
The gist of the story is that a contractor was working on a person&#8217;s house, that he has been friends with since high school, when he came across a box hidden in the walls.  The box turned out to contain Depression Era money totaling $182,00.  The bills are [...]]]></description>
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