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					  <title>Families on a Mission</title> 
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					  <![CDATA[ Where do we begin if we want to make good citizens out of our young children? For parents of preschoolers, mere mention of this idea may seem absurdly lofty.  We're still mired in the minutiae of... ]]> 
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					 			 <pubDate>Tuesday, 09 February 2010</pubDate> 
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					  <title>Our Smallest Citizens</title> 
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					  <![CDATA[ Walk into a preschool or kindergarten classroom, and you are likely to see a poster of classroom rules up on the wall, printed boldly with colored markers, and decorated around the border with the... ]]> 
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					 			 <pubDate>Monday, 08 February 2010</pubDate> 
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					  <title>How Dolls and Tea Parties Are the Playtime Work of Childhood</title> 
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					  <![CDATA[ Babydolls and tea parties.  The very definition of preschool girl play, right?  Frothy pink and white porcelain (perhaps tin would be wiser), all set out for wide-eyed, long-lashed dollies.  It's... ]]> 
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					 			 <pubDate>Friday, 05 February 2010</pubDate> 
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					  <title>Who's Rockin' Out Now?</title> 
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					  <![CDATA[ As parents, we instinctively love to sing to our children, no matter how tone-deaf we may be. And they like nothing better than to listen, and join in when they have learned the tune. Much preschool... ]]> 
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					 			 <pubDate>Thursday, 04 February 2010</pubDate> 
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					  <title>Someone's in the Kitchen</title> 
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					  <![CDATA[ "Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah, someone's in the kitchen I kno-o-o-ow..." Looking for someone to be in the kitchen with you? We know the perfect sous-chef, pint-sized though he may be.... ]]> 
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					 			 <pubDate>Wednesday, 03 February 2010</pubDate> 
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					  <title>Fairy Tales Are Essential</title> 
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					  <![CDATA[ You don't need us to tell you that glittering princesses and their associated fairies, prince charmings, and evil foes are among the most common and intense of preschooler passions. And in a... ]]> 
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					 			 <pubDate>Tuesday, 02 February 2010</pubDate> 
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					  <title>Buggy for Bugs</title> 
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					  <![CDATA[ What is it about insects that fascinates small kids? Could it simply be the fact that ants and grasshoppers and ladybugs are so much smaller than they are? For persons who are accustomed to looking... ]]> 
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					 			 <pubDate>Monday, 01 February 2010</pubDate> 
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					  <title>Building Blocks</title> 
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					  <![CDATA[ In the hands of small children, building materials of all sorts are magic. They are emblematic, we often think, of that amazing alchemy of play, imagination and intense learning that goes in the... ]]> 
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					 			 <pubDate>Saturday, 30 January 2010</pubDate> 
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					  <title>A Passion for Trucks</title> 
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					  <![CDATA[ A truck-obsessed preschooler is not hard to spot. He (it's usually a he, though not always, by any means!) is the one pushing a toy truck around at the playground, at the beach, at grandma's house,... ]]> 
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					 			 <pubDate>Friday, 29 January 2010</pubDate> 
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					  <title>Ahoy, Mateys! Pirates Ashore!</title> 
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					  <![CDATA[                Pirates are the dinosaurs of this preschool generation. Yes, the dinos are still as big as ever (literally as well as figuratively), but pirates are all the rage these days, it seems.... ]]> 
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					 			 <pubDate>Thursday, 28 January 2010</pubDate> 
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