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		<title>Introducing Your Kids to the Mosh Pit</title>
		<link>http://therainracer.wordpress.com/2010/12/03/introducing-your-kids-to-the-mosh-pit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 19:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My oldest son&#8217;s first concert technically was 13 years ago before he was born.  My wife was about eight months pregnant when we went to a Green Day show in Washington, D.C.  The waves of fast-paced punk music reverberated off my wife&#8217;s belly, creating a mosh pit effect in the womb.  For thirteen years I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=therainracer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8671649&amp;post=1004&amp;subd=therainracer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Revamped Strategy</title>
		<link>http://therainracer.wordpress.com/2010/11/24/interrogating-a-stubborn-child/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 05:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rain Racer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not so long ago my fifth-grade child turned in a sloppy book report and brought home a poor grade.  I started in with a lecture on taking pride in your work and soon enough I had worked into a lather about taking your time, checking your work and that sloppy work was unacceptable.  As I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=therainracer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8671649&amp;post=995&amp;subd=therainracer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Parents Shouldn&#8217;t Fear Facebook</title>
		<link>http://therainracer.wordpress.com/2010/10/29/why-parents-shouldnt-fear-facebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 04:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a spat of news reports about cyber-bullying leading to teenage suicide, I suspect that some parents who allowed their children to join Facebook might feel pangs of regret. Not me, and here’s why: Many parents worry that social networking exposes pre-teens to foul and hurtful language, taunting, and general filth.  Those parents are correct.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=therainracer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8671649&amp;post=988&amp;subd=therainracer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Effort at School in the Age of Texting and Facebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My wife and I have high expectations for our three elementary school-aged children, but we have told them repeatedly that we do not expect straight A&#8217;s.  That may sound like a contradiction, but it is not.  If we see good effort then we anticipate that good grades will flow naturally.  And if their best isn&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=therainracer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8671649&amp;post=984&amp;subd=therainracer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Youth Football Not Really About Football</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rain Racer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have spent four years watching 8- and 9-year-olds put on pads and hit each other, sometimes all too gently for the coach&#8217;s liking.  I also have met plenty of Dads at the practice field who have big dreams for their children.  I have concluded that many a parent has misunderstood what pee wee football [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=therainracer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8671649&amp;post=974&amp;subd=therainracer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Witness to a Shoplifting</title>
		<link>http://therainracer.wordpress.com/2010/09/03/witness-to-a-shoplifting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rain Racer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago while wandering around the shopping mall, my 12-year-old son and I watched a 14-year-old kid get caught stealing.  I think it was a good thing for my son to see. No lecture from Dad about morals, right-and-wrong, and doing the right thing has the impact of witnessing an actual event and its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=therainracer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8671649&amp;post=958&amp;subd=therainracer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Son Asks Father: Are We Atheists?</title>
		<link>http://therainracer.wordpress.com/2010/09/03/son-asks-father-are-we-atheists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last winter my 12-year-old son and I went out for a jog to prepare for an upcoming wrestling tournament. These training runs are also excellent opportunities for us to talk about the state of things; school, sports, friends, life. One time he asked me, &#8220;Daddy, are we atheists?&#8221;  I think my son had noticed long [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=therainracer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8671649&amp;post=960&amp;subd=therainracer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Parenting Advice for &#8220;Primitive Minds&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://therainracer.wordpress.com/2010/09/01/parenting-advice-for-primitive-minds/</link>
		<comments>http://therainracer.wordpress.com/2010/09/01/parenting-advice-for-primitive-minds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rain Racer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The This American Life radio show this week features an absorbing story about two parents who raised a tight-knit family while on the run from the law for more than a decade.&#160; They lived in a treehouse, on a cramped boat, and raised six kids that today are grown, have families of their own, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=therainracer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8671649&amp;post=963&amp;subd=therainracer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good parents and bad kids</title>
		<link>http://therainracer.wordpress.com/2010/07/14/good-parents-and-bad-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rain Racer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a good piece in the New York Times about what psychologists say about the link between how you parent and how your children turn out.  The article quotes a parent as saying they &#8220;love&#8221; their son but because of all the heartache and defiance he exhibits, they don&#8217;t &#8220;like&#8221; him.  Sad but probably [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=therainracer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8671649&amp;post=955&amp;subd=therainracer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Gulf oil spill story in USA Today</title>
		<link>http://therainracer.wordpress.com/2010/06/29/the-gulf-oil-spill-story-in-usa-today/</link>
		<comments>http://therainracer.wordpress.com/2010/06/29/the-gulf-oil-spill-story-in-usa-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 04:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rain Racer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the link to the story I wrote for the USA Today about our trip to the Gulf. Filed under: Daddyhood<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=therainracer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8671649&amp;post=953&amp;subd=therainracer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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