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<description><![CDATA[Sheila Wray Gregoire is a professional speaker and the author of four books, including To Love, Honor and Vacuum: When you feel more like a maid than a wife and a mother. She also writes a syndicated parenting column published in a dozen newspapers every week. A passionate advocate for marriage, Sheila loves speaking to women's retreats and women's conferences on how to improve our marriages, build great families, and transform our communities. Together with her husband, she speaks at marriage conferences around North America. Specifically, she's carved out a niche for herself talking about sexual intimacy in a Christian ... ]]></description>
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<title>Exercise With Your Kids! Fun Ideas to Get You Moving</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:29:21 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Spring is here, and with it comes the chance to stop this yearly hibernation and actually get some exercise and some vitamin D! But there's a problem. How do you get exercise with toddlers in tow? They have really short legs! Anything you do together is bound to slow you down, or to be so easy that you don't get in shape. Here are some great ideas to get all of you moving together--even with small ones!]]></description>
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<title>Stop the Marriage Drift - Inexpensive Ways to Spend Time Together As a Couple</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 15:48:46 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Marriage drift can happen to any couple. You start out in love, blissfully excited to be together. And then real life kicks in. You get lazy. Jobs and kids demand your time and attention. And soon the relationship that was once so central in your life has drifted. You've grown apart. Learn to spot the danger signs, and find inexpensive ways to keep your relationship strong, even in the busy years!]]></description>
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<title>Kids and Personality - Teaching Kids Real Life &quot;Life Lessons&quot;</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 10:24:32 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Often our best personality traits are mirror images of our worst! We're highly motivated and try hard, but that also makes us stubborn! When it comes to parenting, we need to study our children's personalities, and create life lessons to help channel the negative into the positive. Learn how here!]]></description>
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<title>Kids and Clutter - How to Teach Kids to Clean Up After Themselves</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 15:18:32 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the most frustrating things as a mother is getting kids to clean up after themselves! You're forever finding toys everywhere, clothes everywhere, crafts everywhere, and food and dishes everywhere. So what do you do? If you're like most moms, you make them clean up every now and then. But on the whole you just get frustrated, and every now and then you blow a gasket. There is a better way. Learn the three tricks that will get your kids cleaning, your house gleaming, and you smiling!]]></description>
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<title>Building Your Husband Up Rather Than Battering Him Down - How Wives Can Watch Their Words</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 15:14:17 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Many of us women marry the potential inside our husbands. We don't marry our husbands. We see what he can become if only he could see the light and be more like--ME! One reason that marriages can run into trouble stems from women's attitudes. And women, perhaps more than men, are inclined to want to "improve" our husbands. Learn how we may unconsciously be undermining our husbands as we try to "help" them, and see how you can improve your marriage just by learning to speak differently!]]></description>
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<title>Libido Boosters For Christian Women - How to Awaken Love!</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:33:57 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you wonder what all the fuss with sex is about? Many women don't have the libidos their husbands do, let alone the libidos everyone seems to have on the movie screen, and they just can't figure out why sex is supposed to be so great. It seems designed for men, and it's a big rip off. Learn how to awaken your hidden libido, and take your marriage to new heights of real emotional, physical, and spiritual intimacy!]]></description>
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<title>Cleaning Fast 'n Furious - How to Get Housework Done Quickly!</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:04:21 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Few of us love housework, but most of us do want to live in a house where we don't have to fear catching a communicable disease. So let's figure out how to clean faster, so we can spend time on the things that we really care about! Lots of practical tips to help women organize their homes!]]></description>
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<title>Training to Distraction - Why Providing Structure is Key to Raising Kids Who Can Pay Attention</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:54:58 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Is ADD a real problem? For many, it definitely is. But for far more, I think we have just simply lost sight that children need structure and discipline far more than they need toys and gadgets. And until they get that structure back, we're going to have more and more kids who can't pay attention. See how our society, and our family life, has contributed to children's distraction problems, and learn what you can do about it!]]></description>
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<title>Is Parenting Well Really Impossible? Why Our Culture's Negativity is All Wrong</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:24:30 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Scanning women's magazines and books, it seems that every article has to do with all the difficulties women face being a mom. And instead of the theme, "sometimes it's hard to be a mom, but you can do it!", we're now stopping the sentence after "it's hard." But is parenting really that difficult? It is, if you're focused on the wrong thing. Learn how to stop trying to do everything and concentrate on just being there for your kids!]]></description>
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<title>Too Busy Syndrome - How to Slow Down and Do Less to Preserve Your Sanity!</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:24:06 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Busyness causes grumpiness. When you get grumpy, chances are you yell a lot more, and only notice the things that annoy you. That's no way to create a healthy family life! Learn how to stop busyness, and prioritize family once again.]]></description>
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<title>The Homework Crunch - Keeping Your Family Together When Homework is Driving You All Insane</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:04:09 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Has homework taken over your family's life? Is it making your children grumpy, you grumpy, and everyone fed up? Learn why it's gotten so bad, and see what you can do to still make your family evenings fun!]]></description>
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<title>The Problem With Stuff - Why Having a Decluttering Plan Brings Peace Home</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:52:03 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A cluttered home is emotionally exhausting. You constantly feel like you should clean, but you have no idea where to start. Maybe you can't close your closet door because of all the unfinished craft projects which you're keeping out of guilt, so that the executor of your estate may have a chance to finish that pillow. Or maybe you don't have room for your grandmother's heirloom brush and mirror set because your husband's trophies from that sixth grade softball tournament are lining the top of your dresser, along with VISA statements from 7 years ago, last year's birthday cards, and slips of phone numbers you didn't want to forget for people you can no longer remember. This article helps those of us who are organizationally challenged feel motivated to get the clutter under control!]]></description>
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<title>The Curse of Busy-Ness - Learning How to Put First Things First</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:44:32 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The answer to that age-old question, "How are you?" has traditionally been "I'm fine." Over the last few years, though, a new answer has supplanted the old one. It's now in vogue to say, "I'm just so busy!", before rattling off all the things on our plate and lamenting about how exhausted we are. The problem is that busy-ness causes us to become distracted from what's really important. Let's learn how to take our families back to basics--and focus on our true priorities!]]></description>
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<title>Saving Dinner - Prioritizing Family Meal Time</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:43:39 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Families used to eat dinner together; and not just once or twice a week, but all the time.  Today we eat McDonald's drive through on our way to errands, if we're lucky. One recent study from the University of Minnesota found that most families eat together only three times a week, and those meals take far less time than they did even twenty years ago. We sit down, we inhale, we get up. Learn why family meals are important for family life, and how to prioritize them once again.]]></description>
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<title>Replenishing Your Batteries - Finding the Energy to Be There For Your Husband</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:43:44 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We women have an easy time throwing our energy into our kids and our responsibilities. We'll try to get the housework done, try to give our kids some play time, try to make it out to kids' night at church where we're leading the crafts, get ready to go to the PTA meeting, drive everyone to soccer, and make a big birthday dinner for our mother-in-law. But what do we have left at the end of the day for our husbands? Learn how to structure your day so you have time and energy to give to him. ]]></description>
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<title>What is Clean Enough? Deciding How Much Housework is Enough</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:39:12 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Nothing is ever truly clean enough when your kids are little. You just finish vacuuming and find out that a toddler has been following you while eating crackers. And is laundry ever all done? But with a simple system you can keep things under control, and keep your sanity at the same time, without takin too much time! Make your home presentable enough that you feel comfortable, but not so perfect that you're constantly worried about it. Find out how.]]></description>
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<title>The Balancing Act - How to Productively Work at Home With Toddlers Underfoot</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:53:18 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[You're home with your kids because you value mothering. You want to nurture them, care for them, and love them. But you also need to work from home. Maybe you're a writer, or an internet marketer, or a top eBay seller. How do you balance them both? With care, dedication, and discipline, you can thrive in both your business and your mothering! Learn how here.]]></description>
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<title>Surviving the Winter Blues - A Family Prescription</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:08:09 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[By the middle of winter most of us desperately need a trip south. It's dark, it's cold, and life looks bleak. Learn the five keys to bringing sunshine back into your family, including planning family times, putting first things first, and getting organized!]]></description>
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<title>Teach Your Kids to Pray - The Five Finger Method</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:18:48 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We want to raise kids who know how to pray, but often children's prayers are selfish and simplistic, like "God, help me to have fun tomorrow." Teach your children to pray using the five-finger method, and get out of that rut!]]></description>
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<title>Prepare For the Best - Building Optimism in Your Children</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:15:39 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Pessimism and optimism are character traits that our children are born with. But that doesn't mean that we have to accept them! Learn how to steer your pessimistic child towards optimism, and brighten up your whole family!]]></description>
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<title>Preventing the 5:30 Panic - How Menu Planning Makes Life So Much Smoother!</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:34:18 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Without a doubt, the worst place to be at 5:30 p.m. on a weeknight is standing in line at the grocery store with kids. They're cranky, you're cranky, everybody's hungry, and all around you are people in the same position. The only way out is to plan your meals earlier. Find out how--and enjoy the humorous pitfalls that can occur as you make the transition from haphazard to organized!]]></description>
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<title>The Perfect Trap - Why the Perfect Home Isn't Perfect, It's Comfortable!</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:22:58 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I love having a neat home. But we can go so overboard on this need to have perfect homes that we  forget what homes are really about. In the end, relationships matter. Dust bunnies don't. Learn how to create a comfortable home, rather than a perfect house, where everyone will feel welcome!]]></description>
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<title>Other Peoples' Kids - Let's Take Back the Playground!</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:26:32 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When my youngest was about eight months old, I took my two girls swimming. All was fine until Mr. Obnoxious Six-Year-Old entered the scene. He ran around the pool, leaving toddlers spluttering in his wake, so he could splash babies in the face.]]></description>
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<title>Raising Independent Children - Teaching Teens to Cook</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:09:58 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We don't want our children living in our basements forever. But if they have few life skills, they also have few incentives for moving out. Learn how to start planning for your children's independence by teaching them to cook--while they're young!]]></description>
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<title>Teaching Teens to Cook - Easy Recipes to Introduce Kids to the Kitchen</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:18:16 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Teaching kids to cook puts them on the road to independence and social success! Children can start at age 11, adding one recipe per year after that. Here are five easy, inexpensive recipes to get them started on the right track!]]></description>
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<title>Of Crumbs and Clutter - How Decluttering Children's Toys Leads to Sanity - And a Few Tears!</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:51:12 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Kids are messy, and we shouldn't pretend otherwise. But that doesn't mean we have to live in chaos! Decluttering the car--and the toys--helps all of us breathe a little easier, even if it does lead to some tears from the little ones!]]></description>
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<title>Musical Torture - How Music Lessons Build Character in Kids, But Also in Parents!</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:20:34 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When I hear the words "music" and "torture" together, the two year debacle when my daughter Rebecca and I took violin lessons comes to mind. I'm not sure who was tortured more-the two of us who had to play, or those who had to listen. But perhaps the greatest form of torture is the one from which we still wake up screaming in the middle of the night, twenty years down the road: having to perform in front of a crowd. ]]></description>
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<title>Boys Will Be Boys - Boys Are Different, and Schools Need to Acknowledge It</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 08:45:56 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I used to think that all children were blank slates, with everything, from their gender identities to their personalities, still to be written. Then I had kids. Boys and girls are different, but the school system does not acknowledge that. It stresses "feminine" traits, like cooperation, at the expense of more "masculine" ones, like competition. No wonder boys are disconnecting from education!]]></description>
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<title>When Cool Shouldn't Rule - Steering Your Teens Towards Helpful Peers</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:21:12 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Kids are simple to figure out. They don't want to eat fish; they do want ice cream. They want TV, Xboxes and the Internet; they don't want Shakespeare. And they want cool friends; they don't want geeks.]]></description>
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<title>How to Be an Encourager - Brightening Someone's Day Makes Yours Brighter, Too!</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:49:34 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There are some days when I've just about had it. Recently, when baby-sitting a friend's two preschoolers, I realized how much one can forget in the six short years since both of my girls have been out of diapers.]]></description>
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<title>Is Marriage Really 50-50? Figuring Out How to Share in a Marriage</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:24:44 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you remember old marriage ceremonies which used to include that quaint line: "all my worldly goods to thee I endow?" How does that realistically work in a marriage? Can we share 50/50? Or is there a better way? Learn how!]]></description>
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<title>Arrested Moral Development - Teaching Our Kids to Do What's Right, and Not Just Avoid Punishment</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:55:16 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We try to teach our kids to do what's right. But we don't just want them to avoid getting into trouble. We want the to grow and mature so that they do what's right because it's ingrained. In this humorous article, learn how to help your kids develop real morals!]]></description>
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<title>A Trip to the Library - Libraries Help the Love of Reading Schools Often Squeeze Out!</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:54:40 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What do you do when the school wants to teach your child to read by sending home silly, boring books? And your child starts hating the sight of the written word? You go the library where the real adventure is!]]></description>
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<title>The Christmas Shuffle - When Driving Around at Christmas Drives You Around the Bend!</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:53:35 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Demographic trends show that Christmas all too often involves walking on eggshells. Today, nearly half of families with children have at least one set of divorced grandparents, compared with one fifth twenty years ago. In fact, it's more likely that children will have some divorced grandparents than divorced parents.  Not only do today's parents have to make Christmas fun for their kids, then, they also have to navigate complicated relationships with their own parents. ]]></description>
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<title>Tis the Season to Be CHRISTMAS!</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:47:19 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I am decorating my Christmas tree. I am trying to persuade my husband to hang our Christmas lights. I am shopping for Christmas presents. And I am doing my Christmas baking. I am not doing holiday baking. I am not erecting a Seasonal Tree. I am not buying Winter Presents, or Holiday gifts, or putting up Seasonal lights. They are Christmas lights, and I'm proud of it.]]></description>
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<title>The Christmas Pressure Cooker</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:44:08 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Has Christmas become a hassle? Too much to do, too many problems with family, too much stress? Learn how to get back to the basics, and relax more this year!]]></description>
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<title>Genetic Curse - How to Take the Bad Things We Inherited and Turn Them Into Something Positive!</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:40:42 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Our parents bequeath us many things, like hugs, smiles, love, and Christmas decorations we made when we were 7. But they also pass on a number of bad things. Maybe it's a tendency to gain weight just by looking at chocolate truffles, or a predisposition to alcoholism, health problems, or receding hairlines. Or perhaps it's a personality issue: you're too shy, too angry, too impulsive, too scared. Learn how to take the bad things and turn them into something good!]]></description>
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<title>Bringing a Breath of Fresh Air to Your Home - How Housework Can Help You Feel Better!</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:39:28 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Whenever I watch TV, I'm struck by how many ads there are for those plug-in air fresheners. Perhaps it's because I tend towards decorating shows rather than NHL games, but air fresheners are the product du jour. So do we really stink that badly? Have we lost the ability to clean our homes? Learn how to get more organized--and more sweet-smelling--in this humorous household article!]]></description>
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<title>Fighting the Good Fight - How to Fight So You Both Win</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:39:02 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Fighting is inevitable. It's not bad in and of itself. But we need to learn to do it right! This practical article discusses the three main types of conflict in a marriage, and gives practical advice on how to fight--right!]]></description>
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<title>Coffee, Anyone? Building Community Once Again</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:37:02 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We may live in a world full of busy people, and still feel alone because we don't really know anyone! This practical, heartwarming article helps you think differently about your neighborhood and your social contacts, so that we can start building community once again. Especially over the coffee pot!]]></description>
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<title>Defeating Distraction - How Focusing Can Help Us Get Something Done!</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:24:41 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I'm organizationally challenged. Look around my house and it's easy to find things on which to pin that chaos cloud that hovers over me: junk mail; two children who can't be in a room without making a mess; all the hobbies we have that require fourteen times as much space as we ourselves occupy. But if I'm honest, the biggest obstacle is me. It's not that I make huge messes; I generally don't. Instead, it's that when I decide that today I'm going to tackle something-whether it's cleaning a bathroom, doing the dishes, or changing all the sheets-it takes four times as long as it should because I get distracted.]]></description>
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