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	<title>Motherhood, Marriage and Other Wild Rides</title>
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		<title>Top Ten Things I WON&#8217;T Give My Man This Christmas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shopping for my husband is nearly impossible. While other men would not be fit to appear in public had their wives not imposed a fashion intervention, my man is very particular about what he wears. The same goes for his penchant for software, hardware, music, video games, tools, boating or camping equipment, you name it. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rjlacko.wordpress.com&blog=1286238&post=1814&subd=rjlacko&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://rjlacko.wordpress.com/2009/12/22/top-ten-things-i-wont-give-my-man-this-christmas/</link>
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		<title>Saying good-bye with love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, we celebrated the life of my dear father-in-law, who was recently taken by Ideopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. At his funeral, my husband courageously gave the eulogy. With his permission, I&#8217;m posting his lovingly chosen words for family and friends who could not be there, and so that we can all pause to remember what an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rjlacko.wordpress.com&blog=1286238&post=1812&subd=rjlacko&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://rjlacko.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/saying-good-bye-with-love/</link>
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		<title>What the? Almost 1 in 5 people report injuries due to &#8220;gift wrap rage&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the years, we&#8217;ve all been warned of dangers lurking in holiday celebrations. For instance, poinsettias have long been accused of being poisonous. Snopes.com has confirmed they are actually rather innocuous. Certainly, glass ornaments can pose a potential threat to little ones, but the worst culprit for holiday hopsital visits lies within the the all-consuming rage experienced by would-be gift-recipients in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rjlacko.wordpress.com&blog=1286238&post=1810&subd=rjlacko&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://rjlacko.wordpress.com/2009/12/16/what-the-almost-1-in-5-people-report-injuries-due-to-gift-wrap-rage/</link>
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		<title>5 Ways to Teach Your Kids the True Spirit of the Holidays</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The holiday gift-giving season is an appropriate time to involve children in charitable giving and teach them why the old adage, “It is better to give than to receive,” is true.  Here, courtesy of the amazing people at World Vision, are five great ways for parents to lead by example and teach their children the true spirit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rjlacko.wordpress.com&blog=1286238&post=1803&subd=rjlacko&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://rjlacko.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/5-ways-to-teach-your-kids-the-true-spirit-of-the-holidays/</link>
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		<title>Baby&#8217;s language development starts in the womb</title>
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Surprisingly, the sound of a newborn&#8217;s cry varies from hospital to birthing center around the world. Two babies born at the same moment in two different countries will cry a melodic rendition of their parents&#8217; mother tongue, according to  a new study published by Current Biology. The findings suggest that infants begin picking up elements of what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rjlacko.wordpress.com&blog=1286238&post=1630&subd=rjlacko&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://rjlacko.wordpress.com/2009/12/05/babys-language-development-starts-in-the-womb/</link>
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		<title>The gifts of loaves and fishes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote this story for the December 2009 issue of San Clemente Presbyterian&#8217;s NewsBreak.
Shortly before the first Christmas, Joseph informed his betrothed, the very pregnant Mary, that she would be undertaking a lengthy trip, by donkey, over rough terrain. If you’ve ever traveled a long distance as—or with—a woman in her final days of gestation, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rjlacko.wordpress.com&blog=1286238&post=1799&subd=rjlacko&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://rjlacko.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/the-gifts-of-loaves-and-fishes/</link>
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		<title>Tips for Reducing Your Child&#8217;s Holiday Stress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We all want to enjoy the holidays&#8211;to take some much-needed downtime to reconnect with our favorite people, eat good food, and have a laugh while remembering old times. Even if we are master stress-busters, 100% committed to a lifestyle of nutrition, adequate sleep and physical exercise, and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rjlacko.wordpress.com&blog=1286238&post=1785&subd=rjlacko&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://rjlacko.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/tips-for-reducing-your-childs-holiday-stress/</link>
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		<title>Psychotherapy&#8211;not more money&#8211;increases happiness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Feeling down? Money tight? Wouldn&#8217;t it be wonderful if your lottery ticket was the big winner? Or, perhaps more realistically, you finally received a much-needed raise and were able pay back all your debt? Happiness at last. Right?
Research by the University of Warwick and the University of Manchester finds that psychological therapy could be 32 times more cost [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rjlacko.wordpress.com&blog=1286238&post=1792&subd=rjlacko&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://rjlacko.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/psychotherapy-not-more-money-increases-happiness/</link>
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		<title>Teens, sex, and family dinners: Parent/teen relationships count</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Concerned about your teen engaging in sex at a young age? A new Child Trends research brief, Parents Matter: The Role of Parents in Teens&#8217; Decisions about Sex, explores how your behavior and practices as a parent, and the qaulity of your relationship with your adolescent can make an impact on the probability of first sex [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rjlacko.wordpress.com&blog=1286238&post=1762&subd=rjlacko&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://rjlacko.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/teens-sex-and-family-dinners-parentteen-relationships-count/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s not to early to begin 10 New Year&#8217;s resolutions for weight &#8220;release&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The actor Freeman Michaels MA, who played Drake Belson on The Young and the Restless in the mid-1990s, is now a nationally known weight-release coach and seminar leader, and author of a new book about his successful approach, called Weight Release: A Liberating Journey (Morgan James Publishing, $16.95).
Before we take those first bites of turkey, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rjlacko.wordpress.com&blog=1286238&post=1782&subd=rjlacko&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://rjlacko.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/its-not-to-early-to-begin-10-new-years-resolutions-for-weight-release/</link>
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