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		<title>Creating Family Traditions: Teny Gross shares his ideas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 11:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anisa Raoof</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[alternatives to participating in traditional holidays and commercialism:

• Set limits and establish a sense of proportion. Holidays always evolve, and are a mix of traditions (Christian holidays for example are a mix with Roman traditions). Our kids write letters to Santa and know that they will get 1 gift from Santa only and a few from us.  (Luckily for the kids, their grandmothers do not always comply.)
• We get our Christmas tree on the weekend of our anniversary to share this special time with the kids.  We buy the tree that we think no one else will pick.  We choose the one that is crooked or homely so it has a home for the holiday.
• We do not give presents for Channuka.  We celebrate the Jewish traditions in a noncommercial way.]]></description>
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		<title>Creating Family Traditions: Wendy Lawton&#8217;s Top 10 List</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 11:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anisa Raoof</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[traditions: tips / resources

    Search your soul, your heart, and your memory bank for what is cherished. What values, ideas, and moments are most important to you? Make a list. Build traditions around the top of that list.
    Traditions should be unique to you. Lather, rinse and repeat Step One.
    Involve your family. What traditions do they want to continue, tweak, add? ‘Cause they’re, um, on this train, too.]]></description>
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		<title>Creating Family Traditions: A few of my favorites</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anisa Raoof</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We celebrate, discuss and honor many religions and cultural celebrations in our home. We decorate a Christmas tree, light Hanukkah candles, attend a Seder annually at a friend's home, and when my father fasted for Ramadan, we made a paper chain to symbolize how many days were left in his fast. Our kids are growing up knowing that people have different beliefs, religions, and traditions.]]></description>
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		<title>Creating Family Tradtions: Beth Curtin&#8217;s tips + resources</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anisa Raoof</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[recipe: Christmas Roll Cookies
2 cups flour
1/4 t. salt
3/4 cup butter
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 large egg
1 t. vanilla

Preheat oven to 325.  Combine flour and salt with a wire whisk. Cream butter and sugar with electric mixer on medium speed...]]></description>
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		<title>Handmade Holidays</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 03:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Hood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I like to make things; I always have. Through the years, my skills have grown, which certainly makes giving a handmade gift easier. But I sought to give handmade gifts long before I could sew or knit. I think back to student Christmases, or the years I worked for a non-profit, when my budget fell far short of my gift-giving list. I framed my own photographs to give to family. I baked homemade bread and packaged it with delicious organic butter. I made fudge. I worked, in other words, with the talents I had.]]></description>
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		<title>Parenting Simply: Rhythm</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 04:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison Abramson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I welcome Allison Abramson as a new contributing write to Kidoinfo. A certified Simplicity Parenting© Group Leader, Allison is helping Rhode Island families slow down, and make space for the simple joys of childhood.  In her monthly column, Allison will share ways we can reduce the chaos in our daily lives by making small, do-able changes at home that will strengthen family connections and create more time for fun!  She lives in Providence with her husband and two little girls, where she blogs about their journey toward a Peaceful Life.]]></description>
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		<title>Hair Grows Back. Kids Don&#8217;t.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Contributor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, September 21st, my daughters, Grace and Fiona, are going to shave my head. Their mom’s bald head won’t be a new sight for them. I shaved with the inaugural team of the 46 Mommas Shave for the Brave in LA last September in an effort to raise awareness of pediatric cancer and help fund a cure.  We continue to work toward our $1 million goal and 46 new Mommas – all moms of kids with cancer – will come together this year in DC at Union Station and go bald.]]></description>
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		<title>My Battle With Mesothelioma</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 02:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Contributor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the true story of Heather Von St. James - courageous mother, wife and survivor of mesothelioma cancer. She hopes by sharing her experience she will connect and support others battling a severe illness. - Anisa

A short three and a half months after giving birth to my beautiful baby girl, I received the devastating diagnosis of malignant pleural mesothelioma — a rare disease that is almost always caused by asbestos exposure — affects the lung’s protective lining in the chest cavity.

Symptoms include, but are not limited to shortness of breath, coughing, pain, fever, night sweats, and unexplained weight loss. My symptoms where shortness of breath, fatigue and drastic weight loss. ]]></description>
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		<title>Honored to be featured alongside other remarkable women in the East Side Monthly May 2011 issue.</title>
		<link>http://kidoinfo.com/ri/honored-to-be-featured-alongside-other-remarkable-women-in-the-east-side-monthly-may-2011-issue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 10:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anisa Raoof</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cover story of ESM&#8217;s May 2011 issue is “Mom Power” and features me alongside six other amazing super moms living on the East Side of Providence making a difference in their community; Carrie Cook, Grace Welch, Cade Tompkins, Wendy Lawton, Alice Boss Altman, and Allison Spooner. This article is the first in what publisher, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet a Parent: Meet Catherine Carr Kelly</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 10:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anisa Raoof</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today meet Catherine Carr Kelly, Executive Director, of Central Square Theater, Co-Founding Director of I WAS THERE Project, mom and panelist from the upcoming Kidoinfo Conversation, Raising Community Minded Kids. Please join the conversation on Wednesday, May 25th at AS220 in Downtown Providence. Click here for details.

Kidoinfo: Where were you born?
Catherine Carr Kelly (CCK): North Andover, MA]]></description>
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