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		<title>4 Reasons to Admit You&#8217;re Not Perfect to Your Children</title>
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No one is perfect. We know this; our kids know this. Then why is it that we cringe even at the thought of admitting this to our children? One of the biggest reasons is that we are afraid of undermining our own authority. But when we don&#8217;t share the truth with our children, even about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chaostoconnection.com/blog/?p=881</link>
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		<title>Connect with your Teens through Television</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As someone who follows the television industry and is very up-to-date on what is on the air, I’m usually pretty good at knowing what TV shows I’ll like and which ones are just not for me. However, there are times when my teenage sons have tried to talk me into watching one of their favorite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Choking Game on the Rise &#8211; Not a Game. Know the Signs.</title>
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Recently reported on the Today Show, the Choking Game is a dangerous and growing activity among youth and young adults, especially among middle schoolers.
What is it? As written on www.ChokingGame.net: &#8220;The Choking Game is played in both in groups and by a lone child. The object of the &#8216;game&#8217; is asphyxiation, as in,  to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chaostoconnection.com/blog/?p=858</link>
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		<title>NYC Mama Discovers New Adventures in Parenting through Chaos to Connection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NYCity Mama, aka Carol Cain, blogs about her family-travels adventures as a New York City mom with three kids. In her recent post, &#8220;Adventures in Parenting: From Chaos to Connection,&#8221; Carol shares some of her personal story about her own parents, struggles with parenting, and the impact Chaos to Connection had on her.
Carol writes, &#8220;I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chaostoconnection.com/blog/?p=855</link>
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		<title>10 Ways to Connect with Kids . . . When You&#8217;re Just Too Tired</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, my wife and I had an evening at home with our two kids, and the kids were pulling out all the stops to get us to connect with them &#8211; fighting with each other, grabbing each others&#8217; toys, begging us to play, crying. It was obvious that they wanted to do something with us, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chaostoconnection.com/blog/?p=849</link>
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		<title>Son vs. iPhone &#8211; A Reminder about Awareness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was in New York last week and met with two wonderful women, Carol Cain and Issa Mas, two like minded parenting bloggers. I was telling them a story about me and my son that illustrates a main concept in Chaos to Connection. The concept is the idea of a message in a bottle, what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Tips to Ease Parents&#8217; Fear of Teen Webspeak</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We often hear concerns from parents about the &#8220;secret language&#8221; teens use on their technology, so-called webspeak used as shorthand in texting and instant messaging (IM&#8217;ing). Like many things, this language is another area for parents to learn and connect with their teen. To ease parents&#8217; fears, we offer these 5 tips from experts:
1. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chaostoconnection.com/blog/?p=832</link>
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		<title>The Importance of Letting Kids Have Their Feelings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When my son, Alex, was 11, he played Little League Baseball and made the All-Star team.  This is a team that plays in the State Tournament at the end of the season.  It’s quite an honor, and Alex was thrilled.  You see, he loved baseball. He was a pitcher.
So Alex was pretty excited to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chaostoconnection.com/blog/?p=828</link>
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		<title>Chaos to Connection on Role Mommy Radio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Role Mommy is an online community and events company created to inspire, entertain and inform today&#8217;s busy moms. The mission of Role Mommy is simple, helping your children realize their hopes and dreams doesn&#8217;t mean you have to give up on your own.
This week, Role Mommy reviewed Chaos to Connection: 9 Heart-Centered Essentials for Parenting Your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chaostoconnection.com/blog/?p=820</link>
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		<title>The Slob: How to Handle the Messy Teenager</title>
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So your teenage son is a slob.  He is always leaving stuff all over the house.  Clothes, baseball bag, dishes, wallet, you name it.  Then he sits and watches TV in the family room.
And it drives you crazy. It really makes you mad!  In fact, you start to take offense to it.  You take [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chaostoconnection.com/blog/?p=816</link>
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