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		<title>Teenage Sexting: A Language All Its Own</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Vicki Panaccione</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[﻿ Following my blog on Teenage Sexting, I have had numerous requests from parents for acronyms to BOLO&#8212;Be On the Lookout. Your teens and tweens have a new language all their own, in the form of symbols and abbreviations that they are constantly texting to one another. As a parent, it’s important for you to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parenting and Passion&#8230;Not Mutually Exclusive  (Part 2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Vicki Panaccione</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Making time for each other You plan everything else in your day&#8212;when to get up, take the kids to school, doctor’s appt, hair appt (what’s that?), grocery shopping, cooking, homework time, nap time, sports practices….  Are these all important?  You bet! You also plan family fun activities, like going to the zoo, the park, a movie, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Passionate Partners make Better Parents</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Vicki Panaccione</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your kids learn how to love by watching you love each other Valentine’s Day is upon us&#8212;the one day a year we are supposed to profess our love for our mate. One day a year? What are the other 364 days for? Well, I’ll tell you what they are for… Lots of affection, intimacy and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Valentines Day for Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Vicki Panaccione</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Valentines Day for Children can be a happy time or a conflicted one. Here are a couple of Ask Dr. Vicki questions I have received over the past year: Does my child have to give a valentine to everyone in the class? Dr. Vicki’s comments: Valentines Day for children means being nice to everyone, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s Resolution Ideas</title>
		<link>http://www.betterparentinginstitute.com/Better-Parenting/parenting-child-raising-skills/new-years-resolution-ideas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.betterparentinginstitute.com/Better-Parenting/parenting-child-raising-skills/new-years-resolution-ideas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Vicki Panaccione</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[﻿Of all the new year’s resolution ideas out there, the one I like the most is the idea of taking responsibility for how this year will unfold. I believe that each year is a new chapter in the book of Opportunity. Now that the new year has begun…today, and every day, is a chance to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preventing Childhood Abductions</title>
		<link>http://www.betterparentinginstitute.com/Better-Parenting/parenting-child-raising-skills/preventing-childhood-abductions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.betterparentinginstitute.com/Better-Parenting/parenting-child-raising-skills/preventing-childhood-abductions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Vicki Panaccione</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.betterparentinginstitute.com/Better-Parenting/?p=2927</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Childhood abductions are being reported more and more on the evening news, and the terrifying prospect of abduction fills the minds of parents across the country. But it&#8217;s important to remember that the majority of children will pass through childhood safely. One of the challenges of being a parent is to teach your children to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gratitude is an Attitude</title>
		<link>http://www.betterparentinginstitute.com/Better-Parenting/parenting-child-raising-skills/gratitudeisanattitude/</link>
		<comments>http://www.betterparentinginstitute.com/Better-Parenting/parenting-child-raising-skills/gratitudeisanattitude/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 08:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Vicki Panaccione</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gratitude is an attitude&#8230;each and every day! You are a parent.  And no matter how tough it gets, or how hard it may be to raise your kids, at the end of the day you are still a parent.  Would you trade that for the world?  Sometimes it takes a day like Thanksgiving to compel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Stop School Bullying</title>
		<link>http://www.betterparentinginstitute.com/Better-Parenting/parenting-child-raising-skills/how-to-stop-school-bullying/</link>
		<comments>http://www.betterparentinginstitute.com/Better-Parenting/parenting-child-raising-skills/how-to-stop-school-bullying/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Vicki Panaccione</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to Stop School Bullying was the focus of a recent blog post on the parentalwisdom.com site. The author and founder of the site, my dear friend, Tina Nocera, has raised two kids and knows a thing or two about how to stop school bullying.   Here are her 3 simple tips: How to stop School [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smartphone Pictures Pose Privacy Risks</title>
		<link>http://www.betterparentinginstitute.com/Better-Parenting/parenting-child-raising-skills/smartphone-pictures-pose-privacy-risks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2011 18:54:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Vicki Panaccione</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.betterparentinginstitute.com/Better-Parenting/?p=2879</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[﻿Smartphone pictures you’ve e-mailed or uploaded could be leaking location information, and placing your children in potential danger! This is the scary information that this NBC news video about smartphone pictures reveals.﻿ UMKC computer science Professor Deep Medhi explained that when you send smartphone pictures, they leave a high-tech invisible trail using the same geo-tracking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help!  My son&#8217;s becoming an Internet Kid!</title>
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		<comments>http://www.betterparentinginstitute.com/Better-Parenting/parenting-child-raising-skills/help-my-sons-becoming-an-internet-kid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 13:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Vicki Panaccione</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Internet kid is the term I give to any child who is turning to the Internet more and more for social interaction, information and entertainment.  That sums up many of the kids of today.  But what to do when this reliance on the Internet becomes a substitution for parenting?  Here&#8217;s one mom&#8217;s dilemma and my advice [...]]]></description>
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