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		<title>Her Kid Hurt Yours and She&#8217;s Doing Nothing!</title>
		<link>http://www.mymommymanners.com/blog/playgroups-and-play-dates/our-protective-instincts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 18:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Bully and the Victim:  What to do when it’s your kid]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A reader emailed me about a fight between her daughter and a friend that blew up to include the moms as well. The girls got into a squabble when one lied to the other. The girl who was lied to grew so upset that she put her hands around the other girls neck and started [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working with other moms to solve issues between kids</title>
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		<comments>http://www.mymommymanners.com/blog/playgroups-and-play-dates/working-with-other-moms-to-solve-issues-between-kids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Cohen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Playgroups and Play Dates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Your Child Hurt My Child]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An economics professor friend mentioned that membership is more valuable if others are excluded. It makes sense if you look at the greek system, wait lists for exclusive country clubs, limited edition gadgets or popular cliques among children (and moms). We always seem to want what we can’t have. My daughter has been dallying with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coveting your neighbor?  Just remember “No One Escapes”</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Cohen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Competition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Playgroups and Play Dates]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[   As we compete in the perfect parent Olympics, smugly congratulating ourselves on our child’s latest accomplishment or fretting over behavioral issues, it’s important to remember that much is outside of our control.  A tragic story in Sunday’s New York Times drove this point home.  A young family was posing for a picture in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making sure your kid wins</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Cohen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Competition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Playgroups and Play Dates]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We went away for Memorial Day weekend and met another nice couple with a child the same age as my older daughter. They taught her some fun card games at the beach which both girls seemed to enjoy playing, until my daughter started to figure out how to win. At this point, both her new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Competition Starts Early</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 14:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Cohen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Competition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Playgroups and Play Dates]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was at a party this weekend where the majority of the parents present were tutoring their kindergarteners. Let me say that again. TUTORING THEIR KINDERGARTENERS. Clearly I am the ultimate slacker mom as I am impressed that they do anything other than nap in kindergarten. The fact that my daughter is learning to read [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Braggarts</title>
		<link>http://www.mymommymanners.com/blog/playgroups-and-play-dates/competition/braggarts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 14:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Cohen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Competition]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My daughter taught herself to ride a bike sans training wheels yesterday and I couldn’t wait to yell it from the roof tops. I posted it on Facebook. I worked it into conversations, not just with good friends but random strangers. In short, I had become one of those mothers I despise – the one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schadenfreude</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Cohen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Competition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Playgroups and Play Dates]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Do you ever derive pleasure from the misfortunes of others? Like when your neighbor is not accepted to the private school that rejected you as well? Or when you discover that your friend’s kid melts down easier than yours? It’s awful to admit, but as parents, many of us take pleasure in other people’s pain. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playdate Ettiquette</title>
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		<comments>http://www.mymommymanners.com/blog/playgroups-and-play-dates/playdate-ettiquette/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 18:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Cohen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bad Play Date Etiquette]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Playgroups and Play Dates]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You’re on a play date at a park and your child picks up a stick and starts swinging it around. You are about to remind him that if he’s going to play with sticks, he needs to make sure that he is far away from other children so no one gets hurt, when the other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Dare You Hurt My Child!</title>
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		<comments>http://www.mymommymanners.com/blog/playgroups-and-play-dates/how-dare-you-hurt-my-child/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Cohen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Playgroups and Play Dates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Your Child Hurt My Child]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I never fully appreciated the “mama bear” instinct until the first time another kid pummeled my child in a Mommy and Me class. I recoiled in horror, immediately labeling the other child a terror and spending the rest of the class trying to keep a sizable physical space between him and my daughter. Other parents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stood up for a play date?</title>
		<link>http://www.mymommymanners.com/blog/playgroups-and-play-dates/stood-up-for-a-play-date/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mymommymanners.com/blog/playgroups-and-play-dates/stood-up-for-a-play-date/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Cohen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bad Play Date Etiquette]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Playgroups and Play Dates]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s holiday time and scheduling play dates can prove a sanity saver. So long as the other parent doesn’t flake on you. Our friend Carol had organized a play date with one of her daughter’s favorite preschool classmates. She thought she did everything right. She and the other mother exchanged emails a week in advance [...]]]></description>
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