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		<title>Your Children Are Masterpeices</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Vicki Panaccione</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[He was standing in front of the room, drawing. Big, sweeping strokes with different colored chalk&#8212;back to the audience, not caring what we thought. He didn’t seem to think much, just stared at the canvas for a few seconds, and then went to work. First came the broad stokes of pink and yellow and blue. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Child-Centered Divorce Month</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Vicki Panaccione</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[July is National Child-Centered Divorce Month.  Imagine having to have a month to raise awareness of centering attention on the kids when deciding to divorce.  That doesn’t mean staying together for the sake of the kids.  On the contrary, child-centered divorce is about taking your kids’ needs and emotions into account when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playing With Your Kids: Infancy To Age Two</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Vicki Panaccione</dc:creator>
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Kids Are From Krypton, Parents Are From Pluto Radio Series update July 15, 2010: The key to playing with your kids is to provide toys and activities that meet their developmental level. Kids can play with the same toys for many months, playing with them in different ways as they reach new developmental stages. Some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>T-Shirts Can Say A Lot</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Vicki Panaccione</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it’s summer.  Time to pull out my favorite T-shirts, too light for me to wear unless it’s 90+ degrees.   And I have quite a collection of shirts emblazoned with some of my favorite expressions.  So, I thought I would share them with you.  I am sure you will catch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playing With Your Kids&#8212;Ages 6 And Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Vicki Panaccione</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kids are from Krypton; Parents are from Pluto Radio series update July 8: As you know by now, (or read below) I am a great promoter of playing games with your kids at any age.  Last week’s show focused on the tremendous benefits of playing Candyland with your little ones.  Although this is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playing With Your Kids&#8212;Through Various Ages And Stages</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Vicki Panaccione</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kids are from Krypton; Parents are from Pluto  Radio Series Update July 1: Games provide great ways to build various kinds of skills.  They fall into a number of different areas, including:  cognitive development, motor coordination and development of values, morals and self-control. Cognitive development via games begins with the simple learning, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unplugging And Game Playing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Vicki Panaccione</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kids are from Krypton; Parents are from Pluto Radio Series Update June 24: Today’s topic is near and dear to my heart.  I am dismayed about the fact that so many families no longer spend time playing cards and board games. With video games being all the rage, the board games have been relegated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mom! There&#8217;s Nothing To Do!</title>
		<link>http://www.betterparentinginstitute.com/Better-Parenting/parenting-child-raising-skills/mom-theres-nothing-to-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 22:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Vicki Panaccione</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kids are from Krypton, Parents are from Pluto Radio Series Update June 17: What to do when you hear:  “Mom, there’s nothing to do.” (Part 2)
Hope you had a chance to have your kids work on their dream boards this week.  If not, it’s a great project to do for Father’s Day!  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Papa Bear</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Vicki Panaccione</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found this delightful story in  Readers Digest:
My husband&#8217;s cousin married a former Marine who now works for United Parcel Service. They bought their four-year-old son two stuffed bears &#8212; one in a UPS uniform and the other in Marine garb. When the boy seemed confused, his father brought out a picture of himself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creating a Vision Board with Your Kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 02:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Vicki Panaccione</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kids are from Krypton; Parents are from Pluto radio series update: June 10, 2010: What to do when you hear:  “Mom, there’s nothing to do.”  School is out&#8212;and for the last couple of weeks, we have been focusing on ways to spend time with your kids; last week we discussed lots of fun [...]]]></description>
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