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		<title>The Perfect Parent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can see her from across the school parking lot, laughing and tossing her exquisitely coiffed hair as she unloads her well-adjusted, joyful kids from the car. She has a seemingly endless supply of energy and enthusiasm, and she’s bending down now to give her child emotional support. She always does this, I can tell. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What did you think of the Alfie Kohn talk?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let us know what you thought of the first Parenting Matters Lecture with Alfie Kohn.  Thanks!
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		<link>http://www.echoparenting.org/what-did-you-think-of-the-alfie-kohn-talk.html</link>
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		<title>Alfie Kohn: My Hero &#8211; An Excerpt from Jennifer Lehr</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;During the second part of the talk he laid out eight guidelines of Work With Parenting.
Before listing and describing them, Kohn explained that he wasn’t there to tell us what to do or say to your kids. He doesn’t know us and he doesn’t know our kids. It would be as presumptuous as it would be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.echoparenting.org/alfie-kohn-my-hero-an-excerpt-from-jennifer-lehr.html</link>
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		<title>Spanking Debate Strikes Out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No, you shouldn’t. Yes, you should.

First newsletter of the new year, and here we go again, debating spanking. The Los Angeles Times printed this article just over a week ago, and then some letters of response, including one by Barbara Schwarz, a graduate of our Parent Educator Certification Program (go Barbara!)

If you’re a regular reader of this newsletter, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.echoparenting.org/spanking-debate-strikes-out.html</link>
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		<title>Holiday Stress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m not the first to suggest that the holiday season might produce, for some people, a teeny weeny little bit of stress. Shopping, cooking, eating, parties, activities, crowds, school vacations, financial stress, etc. Fortunately, this time of year also presents many opportunities to get together with family. Yay! Family! That’ll be so very soothing for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dead Cats: Curiosity and Raising Kids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most people stop looking when they find the proverbial needle in the haystack. I would continue looking to see if there were other needles.
 -Albert Einstein
Today my five year old son wanted chocolate for breakfast. If I had given it to him, I’ll admit that it wouldn’t have been the first time. But we’ve had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.echoparenting.org/dead-cats-curiosity-and-raising-kids.html</link>
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		<title>Couples Co-Parenting Workshop in the South Bay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s face it, being a parent puts a lot of stress on our relationships. We manage to make it through a challenging moment with our children, and we turn around and scream at our partners. Co-parenting can be a real challenge, especially if we are trying to be conscious about how we raise our children.
This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.echoparenting.org/couples-training.html</link>
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		<title>Echo Parenting Celebration &amp; Thanksgiving</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you were at the party on Saturday Night, these photos of you look great! If you weren’t there, click and have a vicarious experience of the warm, wonderful event. In the spirit of the season, I’d like to express many thanks to all who attended, bought raffle tickets, volunteered, danced their butts off to DJ [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.echoparenting.org/echo-parenting-celebration-thanksgiving.html</link>
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		<title>Raising Teens and Tweens Master Class in Echo Park</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not an easy age to be, teens bodies go through hormonal changes that can be confusing to navigate, and their social environments can be complex as well.

Raising teenagers and preteens can be very challenging. It&#8217;s  sometimes difficult to give love and support to our kids as they  experience this period of development.
This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.echoparenting.org/raising-teens-and-tweens-in-echo-park.html</link>
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		<title>Echo Response to Texas Judge&#8217;s Beating</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By now, you’ve probably heard the uproar about the young disabled woman in Texas who posted the video she secretly took of her father beating her. It’s an incredibly disturbing video of a 16 year old girl being viciously whipped with a belt, reportedly for downloading pirated music on the internet. It’s a frightening and painful [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.echoparenting.org/echo-response-to-texas-judges-beating.html</link>
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