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		<title>School Zone Makes Math Easy</title>
		<link>http://www.theopinionatedparent.com/2011/11/16/school-zone-makes-math-easy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 06:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Help your child’s early math skills take off and soar! In superhero proportions, this 320-page workbook builds early math skills, while the award-winning Flash Action software teaches essential facts in a flash! Combining traditional pencil and paper learning with high-tech computer methods makes this dynamic duo a Super Value.&#8221; My son recently began working with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spark Up A Conversation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 05:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spark Story Starters are the newest addition to our car trips and family meal times, and we absolutely love them! Spark Your Imagination is a family-run, Canadian venture and Tamara Vukusic and her husband and two little boys came up with this deck of open-ended questions together to get them all talking and thinking outside [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hello, it&#8217;s Santa Speaking!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 04:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Waiting in line for half an hour at the mall to see a creepy Santa with hummus breath and then paying $15 for a crappy picture of my kids with him isn’t my idea of a great Christmas memory. What is my idea of a great Christmas memory? Santa phoning my children each year and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>rebecca plants plants ideas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2010 06:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t posted much about my OpenSky shop &#8211; partly because I&#8217;m ridiculously busy but mostly because I am just not a salesperson. I love to share the coolest of cool things with you but I don&#8217;t necessarily want to sell them myself. There are a few things, though, that I&#8217;m willling to toss into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Picture It!</title>
		<link>http://www.theopinionatedparent.com/2010/11/20/picture-it-picture-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2010 05:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am all for creative and open ended toys and activities. I am also an early years educator whose daily life focuses around literacy, so it goes without saying that I am THRILLED with Picture It Picture Books &#8211; the one and only book series that children illustrate themselves. Ontario authors Alicia Belvedere and Leanne [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Special Occasion Designs, by your very own special little girl!</title>
		<link>http://www.theopinionatedparent.com/2010/10/04/designed-by-you-special-occasion-fashions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 06:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many young girls have you met who dream of clothes, who live to shop. Fashion divas and little princesses alike are sure to love Creativity for Kids new &#8220;Designed by You Special Occasion Fashions&#8221; ($39.99 &#8211; ages 9-99). From ball gowns to wedding gowns, this kit has it all and everything your little lady [...]]]></description>
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		<title>thinkSMART</title>
		<link>http://www.theopinionatedparent.com/2010/09/04/thinksmart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 05:18:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you a Wii family? ThinkSMART family! for the Wii from Mentor InterActive is based on the ThinkSMART DS games offering a great variety of brain teacers, beaters, puzzlers &#038; mental challenges but adding the physical challenges for the whole family that we&#8217;ve all come to expect from the Wii. The ThinkSMART series is designed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can You Picture It?</title>
		<link>http://www.theopinionatedparent.com/2009/12/22/picture-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Picture It Picture Books is a super great Canadian company that I&#8217;m thrilled to share with you. Alicia and Leanne, a teacher and a lawyer respectively, have written three books (so far) which, as a mother and a teacher, I think are brilliant. They&#8217;re designed to aid in the development of imagination and hone the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creativity for Kids</title>
		<link>http://www.theopinionatedparent.com/2009/12/07/creativity-for-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My children both love crafts. It&#8217;s all crafts, all the time around here. From simple colouring &#038; playdough smushing to glueing random things on to other random things, they love it all. With going back to work, the craft projects I plan &#038; do with my children aren&#8217;t as intricate or as often as they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bonsai Barber &#8211; Win a great game or even a Wii!</title>
		<link>http://www.theopinionatedparent.com/2009/11/29/bonsai-barber/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wii rocks for so many reasons. Though we still don&#8217;t have much time to play it, we thoroughly enjoy the moments that we do, and it&#8217;s a great way to entertain the entire family when the weather&#8217;s crappy. We don&#8217;t have many games, but that may change since my recent discovery of Wiiware, a [...]]]></description>
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