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		<title>The perfect parent&#8217;s iPhone apps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once, in an era known as pre-2007, you could raise children without an iPhone. This is no longer possible, implies Time magazine, with this list of hot iPhone apps for &#8220;new moms.&#8221;

The &#8220;BabyCam&#8221; app, which tops the list, solves a timeless problem:
Getting your baby to smile for the camera long enough to take a perfect [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.perfectbabyhandbook.com/blog/2009/08/the-perfect-parents-iphone-apps/</link>
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		<title>Perfect babies, perfect parents, and FAILure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;My child must succeed! I will give her every opportunity to succeed! She will learn to write tricky words like &#8216;constitution&#8217;  in a lovely, calligraphic hand, but her vocabulary will never include &#8216;failure&#8217;!&#8221; It was such modest claims that inspired me to satirize competitive parenting in The Perfect Baby Handbook.
Now, it turns out, that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.perfectbabyhandbook.com/blog/2009/08/perfect-babies-perfect-parents-and-failure/</link>
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		<title>The mystery of the disappearing birthday present</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you seen this t-shirt? Say, blowing down a street in Brooklyn? Or on the back of mischievous, Size-5 thief? Or somewhere in my friend Ariel&#8217;s house?
If so, please grab it and forward immediately to Perfect Baby Handbook Worldwide Headquarters on Montague Street so I can restore it to Ariel&#8217;s son Austen, the birthday boy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.perfectbabyhandbook.com/blog/2009/08/the-mystery-of-the-disappearing-birthday-present/</link>
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		<title>Why your baby will grow up to be a Scary Information Glutton</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone loves a clairvoyant. Especially when she predicts the future with as much bluster and certainty as Penelope Trunk, who pens a syndicated business column called the &#8220;Brazen Careerist&#8221;—and focuses her forecasting on one&#8217;s own beloved child.
Trunk&#8217;s most recent projection, &#8220;What Generation Z will be like at work,&#8221; is irresistible. In a nutshell, it seems [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.perfectbabyhandbook.com/blog/2009/07/why-your-baby-will-grow-up-to-be-a-scary-information-glutton/</link>
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		<title>The hottest baby invention of 1945: The lab-rat crib!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cozy-looking, isn&#8217;t it? Conceived by Harvard behavioral psychologist, BF Skinner, for his second child, Deborah, this &#8220;crib&#8221; was born of the best intentions. Observing the heavy toll his wife&#8217;s parenting regimen took on her, Skinner set out to simplify it. Though not by pitching in himself&#8230;
He created this baby-sized room, known as the &#8220;Baby Tender,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.perfectbabyhandbook.com/blog/2009/07/the-hottest-baby-invention-of-1945-the-lab-rat-crib/</link>
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		<title>Family togetherness is a trend that makes you wear all-white and behave inappropriately</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t quite decided what your favorite parenting trends of 2009 are quite yet, please keep an open mind. Surfnetparents.com would like to suggest this one, &#8220;Nature Vacations&#8221;:

Note the caption: Apparently, the crazy fad that&#8217;s leading American families to conduct public orgies on dude ranch holidays while wearing &#8220;innocent&#8221; white clothing never dies.

I&#8217;m confused. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.perfectbabyhandbook.com/blog/2009/07/family-togetherness-is-a-trend-that-drives-you-insane/</link>
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		<title>The legend of the demonic, incompetent babysitter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;d somehow failed to notice that babysitters have a bad rep, this Salon.com interview with Miriam Forman-Brunell about her new social history, Babysitter: An American History, is a splendid reminder.
 Forman-Brunell is a woman who has clearly spent days watching and re-watching When a Stranger Calls, the 1979 horror movie that she says represents [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.perfectbabyhandbook.com/blog/2009/07/the-legend-of-the-demonic-incompetent-babysitter/</link>
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		<title>New York Times food critic comes out as a &#8220;baby bulimic&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Or, more precisely, a &#8220;toddler bulimic.&#8221; In this Sunday&#8217;s New York Times Magazine, esteemed restaurant critic Frank Bruni confesses, extensively and juicily that, from an early age, he was an insanely motivated eater.
And a violently needy one. By Bruni&#8217;s account, adapted from his forthcoming memoir Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater, if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.perfectbabyhandbook.com/blog/2009/07/new-york-times-food-critic-comes-out-as-a-baby-bulimic/</link>
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		<title>Every kid needs a Swiss Army Knife—or does she?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Delightfully stressful scenario: Some 9-year-old who&#8217;s already drowning in possessions invites your kid to his or her birthday. You need an appropriate gift, but what? My friend Julie thought she had it nailed: A Swiss Army Knife! Classic, cunning, status-y, and besides, didn&#8217;t Angelina Jolie buy Maddox one?
Big mistake: The birthday child&#8217;s mother reacted poorly. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.perfectbabyhandbook.com/blog/2009/07/every-kid-needs-a-swiss-army-knife/</link>
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		<title>Children at risk from Jon Gosselin&#8217;s &#8220;clothing designs&#8221;!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just when you thought Jon Gosselin, of &#8220;Jon &#38; Kate Plus 8&#8243; fame, couldn&#8217;t get any more loathsome, People magazine reported that he&#8217;d signed a new deal to design kids&#8217; clothing for the Ed Hardy label with help from his new girlfriend. This seemed unfathomable and was later refuted by the rigorous journalists at Entertainment [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.perfectbabyhandbook.com/blog/2009/07/children-at-risk-from-jon-gosselins-clothing-designs/</link>
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