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		<title>If you don&#8217;t like the answer, the question is wrong.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Why would I do that?&#8221; When you question yourself about something you did, and you don&#8217;t like the answer, the question is wrong. Do these answers sound familiar: &#8220;Because I was stupid,&#8221; &#8220;Because I was selfish,&#8221; Because I was irresponsible&#8230;&#8221;?  You probably learned  answers like those when you were a child. You didn&#8217;t like them, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bigger, Better, Faster</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 22:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What to do for the child who always has to be better than his/her siblings? Needing to be &#8220;better than&#8221; is another version of a child&#8217;s need to win. Dr. Lawrence Cohen, author of Playful Parenting and co-author of The Art of Roughhousing, provides a playful yet effective way to fill this need in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overcoming Homework Hurdles</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 02:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy Blackard</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.languageoflistening.com/?p=6847</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Growing up as a Language of Listening® kid has often given me a different perspective from my peers. Now, as an adult working in childcare, this different perspective is more obvious and useful than ever.  I am proud to say, much like my mother, Sandy Blackard, the kids seen as problematic by others are the ones who endear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Driver or Being Driven?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 21:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just had the strangest moment while driving. I saw a car tailgating a van as it turned onto a main road. My first reaction was, &#8220;Bad driver!&#8221; because driving that close scares me, but that thought was suddenly and unexpectedly replaced with a STRENGTH. Given that the car kept the exact same distance from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bold. Me?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2012 22:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Would you consider someone who prefers merry-go-rounds to roller coasters, bold? That was me &#8211; not bold. It took Eva, master life coach, to wake me up. Now I know what it feels like to have someone point out a STRENGTH you didn&#8217;t know you had. I&#8217;ve always thought that being nice or cautious holds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restaurant Outburst Reversed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2012 20:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You can&#8217;t go back in until you settle down!&#8221; Who hasn&#8217;t had to remove their child from a store or restaurant at one time or another? Most of us know what that is like. I happened upon such a scene last night at the downtown Austin holiday stroll apparently just after a mom had removed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teasing &amp; Name-calling</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 06:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.languageoflistening.com/?p=6119</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When name calling is done to tease or be hurtful, the dynamics are different than with a friend who chooses an unacceptable term of endearment as discussed in What&#8217;s in a Name. Suggesting your child say what she wants to be called, which can be helpful in the case of a friend, might only give [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help Is All Around</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 21:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Riding in an ambulance with lights flashing, sirens blaring, whizzing past the cars on the highway sounds like great fun to a child. For me it was embarrassing. Thank goodness my ride was the result of a false alarm, and that the outcome of a battery of tests shows that I am at very low [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s in a Name?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2012 04:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.languageoflistening.com/?p=6080</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A rose by any other name&#8230;&#8221; doesn&#8217;t actually work for children. Names matter. If you were ever called a name you didn&#8217;t like, you know what I mean. Language of Listening team member, Kimberly Maeder shared this CAN DO moment that helped her daughter, age 5, stand up for herself. When my daughter said, &#8220;I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Spending and Eating = Wasting</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2012 19:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately, I&#8217;ve been tackling my beliefs about money and was stunned by the simplicity of this one, and it&#8217;s link to eating. Who am I about spending? I try not to, feel guilty when I do, and come up with endless justifications for each dollar spent or saved. No, it&#8217;s actually worse than that&#8230;each penny! [...]]]></description>
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