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		<title>It’s quiet without the Men-Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been a quiet week on the Man-Child front.  They headed off last week for five nights at a school rowing camp on the Tambo River.  It coincided with the hottest week of our summer so far  &#8211; just as well they were on water.  No doubt the next hottest one will be when the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=motherofamanchild.com&amp;blog=11685877&amp;post=773&amp;subd=motherofamanchild&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Parent-Child Power Struggle</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mother of a Man-Child</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://motherofamanchild.wordpress.com/?p=764</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There comes a point when you realise that it’s a lost cause. That whatever you say will be ignored, and that you are powerless as a parent to control your child anymore. Now in an ideal world, that would be when they are 18 years old, and fair enough too, since legally they are an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=motherofamanchild.com&amp;blog=11685877&amp;post=764&amp;subd=motherofamanchild&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Post-Script to Home Alone</title>
		<link>http://motherofamanchild.com/2012/01/13/post-script-to-home-alone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mother of a Man-Child</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I admit it.  Perhaps the men-children are more mature than I thought?  After leaving them at home alone last weekend, unsupervised for 48 hours, it appears that nothing untoward took place, and our house remains unscathed.  Maybe, just maybe, the boys can be trusted more than I have given them credit for?  Then again, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=motherofamanchild.com&amp;blog=11685877&amp;post=758&amp;subd=motherofamanchild&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Men-Children alone in the house for a weekend?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 06:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year to all my readers.  I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas.  Well the Griswold Family have just returned from a great short holiday in Sydney.  We did all the tourist icons with the kids &#8211; Harbour Bridge, Opera House, The Rocks, Darling Harbour, Westfield Eye Tower, Bondi Beach, Manly Beach and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=motherofamanchild.com&amp;blog=11685877&amp;post=751&amp;subd=motherofamanchild&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mother of a Man-Child’s Top 10 Posts</title>
		<link>http://motherofamanchild.com/2011/12/23/mother-of-a-man-childs-top-10-posts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 06:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mother of a Man-Child</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://motherofamanchild.com/?p=741</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As I post this week, I am celebrating a small milestone – 100 posts by Mother of a Man-Child.  Every Friday, for almost two years now, I have shared a little story about our life with the Men-Children (and not to be forgotten Sister of a Man-Child). It all began with this story (All In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=motherofamanchild.com&amp;blog=11685877&amp;post=741&amp;subd=motherofamanchild&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From Boys to Bogans?</title>
		<link>http://motherofamanchild.com/2011/12/16/from-boys-to-bogans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 06:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mother of a Man-Child</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In what can only be described as a worrying trend, I think my men-children are showing Bogan tendencies.  The only comfort I can take in this is that they are not alone.  In fact they are joining a growing number of their school friends with body piercings and a “ratty” hairstyle which seems to be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=motherofamanchild.com&amp;blog=11685877&amp;post=734&amp;subd=motherofamanchild&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The results are in!</title>
		<link>http://motherofamanchild.com/2011/12/09/the-results-are-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 06:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mother of a Man-Child</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exams are done.  School is out.  By the time this post is published the men-children will have completed Year 9 and the school reports will be in an envelope on their way home to us.  Time for a stiff drink! Actually following the exam results, which we received earlier this week, it has to be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=motherofamanchild.com&amp;blog=11685877&amp;post=729&amp;subd=motherofamanchild&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We survived another school year (not without incident)</title>
		<link>http://motherofamanchild.com/2011/12/02/we-survived-another-school-year-not-without-incident/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 06:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mother of a Man-Child</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For all parents, the end of the school year is looming.  In no time the kids will all be on holidays for about two months (we workers can only wish), wondering what to do with themselves, and bleeding the parental ATM dry. We survived the end of year exams, although the results are not in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=motherofamanchild.com&amp;blog=11685877&amp;post=719&amp;subd=motherofamanchild&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting the Technology Tsunami</title>
		<link>http://motherofamanchild.com/2011/11/25/fighting-the-technology-tsunami/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 06:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mother of a Man-Child</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Technology – can’t live with it, can’t live without!  Smartphones, iPads, laptops, smart TV’s&#8230;&#8230;the digital revolution is amazing and literally engulfing us all like a giant tsunami.  Of course the digital natives don’t know any different.  And even though I work in the digital space every day, I was more than a little surprised when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=motherofamanchild.com&amp;blog=11685877&amp;post=712&amp;subd=motherofamanchild&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Teenage Torture Techniques</title>
		<link>http://motherofamanchild.com/2011/11/18/teenage-torture-techniques/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 06:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mother of a Man-Child</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before you worry that we are monster parents who are torturing our men-children, it’s quite the opposite.  We are regular victims of “Teenage Torture”, a tried and true technique used by adolescents to wear down their parents when a decision is not considered favourable. We all know that as a parent one of our key [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=motherofamanchild.com&amp;blog=11685877&amp;post=703&amp;subd=motherofamanchild&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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