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		<title>Eating Out With the Kids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love going out to eat.  For me it symbolizes relaxation, enjoyment, time to focus on the people you are with, and since I eat foods that I would not normally make at home because they are so decadent or too complex for my non-chef brain… indulgent. But when I go out to eat, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nicoleelyce.com/?p=292</link>
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		<title>Nurturing the Baby Self</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week we discussed The Secret of Parenting by Anthony E. Wolf, Ph.D.. Dr. Wolf discusses the baby self and the mature self.  The baby self is that part of us that wants what it wants when it wants it, which is NOW!  The mature self is the part of us that we show to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nicoleelyce.com/?p=286</link>
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		<title>The Secret of Parenting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine recently recommended The Secret of Parenting by Anthony E. Wolf, Ph.D.  She was searching for parenting techniques that don’t use punishment, and this book was recommended to her. While not the Holy Grail of parenting books, it gave me some interesting new concepts to think about and another tool in my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nicoleelyce.com/?p=279</link>
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		<title>Changing Parenting Roles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week’s topic in www.FiveMinuteLifeLessons.com was about personal hygiene.  As parents we know that it is ultimately up to us to make sure our children are clean and well groomed.  It is up to us to teach them good grooming techniques and try to instill them as habits. I have to admit that this is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nicoleelyce.com/?p=271</link>
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		<title>Manners with Our Children</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week in www.FiveMinuteLifeLessons.com we started talking about manners. Manners are society&#8217;s guidelines for polite, courteous interaction.  The purpose of manners is to make the other person feel acknowledged, cared for, and respected. Isn&#8217;t that how we want our children to feel? And what better way to learn manners than to seen them exhibited by your parents!  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nicoleelyce.com/?p=265</link>
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		<title>Building Rapport With Your Child</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week in www.FiveMinuteLifeLessons.com we talked about building rapport. You have a natural rapport with your child because you are in the same family.  But do you have any other common interests?  Having a natural rapport on a couple of different levels helps build strong relationships. Do you both like to knit, play basketball, camp, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nicoleelyce.com/?p=256</link>
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		<title>Which Do You Ask Your Kids?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I noticed that I am in the habit of asking closed-ended questions. Do you like this one? Did you have a good time? Is your homework done? All of these are closed-ended questions that require a yes or no response.  Closed-ended questions can also be questions that require a one or two word answer. What [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nicoleelyce.com/?p=251</link>
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		<title>Somebody&#8217;s Watching Me&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was thinking about the topic today, Rockwell’s “Somebody’s Watching Me” popped into my head. If you have kids at home then you know that someone is indeed watching you…all the time! We are most aware of this when they are around 3 or 4, and they repeat what we say at the most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nicoleelyce.com/?p=249</link>
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		<title>The Golden Rule&#8230;With Kids?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My son sums up the Golden Rule by saying: Treat others the way you want to be treated. I think that is a pretty good “sum up.” But when it comes to kids, especially our own, we can run into sticky territory.  I would like to say that I always treat my children the way [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nicoleelyce.com/?p=243</link>
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		<title>What Do They Really Need To Know? Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So the question on the table is… What skills and knowledge will the kids need in the real world? My husband and I have been going back and forth on this for a while. We both agree that having exposure to a wide range of math, science, history, and literature is a good thing. One [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nicoleelyce.com/?p=240</link>
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		<title>What Do They Really Need to Know?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been homeschooling my children for the last 8 years. We have studied history from ancient times to the present, biology, physics, chemistry, earth science, grammar, math, and many other subjects. We have been studying all of this in the name of education, an education that is supposed to get them ready for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nicoleelyce.com/?p=236</link>
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		<title>Really Listening</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People know when you are not really listening. Even subconsciously, they pick up on it. Some give up, but others keep trying. Have you ever been in a conversation where the other person just keeps talking? They may be saying the same thing over and over again or flit around from one subject to another. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nicoleelyce.com/?p=229</link>
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