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		<title>Hell Hath No Fury Like a Pre-Teen Scorned</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 23:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penelope</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boundaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[choices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hell hath no fury like pre-teen scorned]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear C, Remember how I was just telling you over tea this afternoon that my new philosophy in life is to only make choices that make my life LESS hellish, not more? It all so seemed simple, didn&#8217;t it? When weighing up two competing options, one of which would result in disappointment or inconvenience to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Re: Hell Hath No Fury Like a Pre-Teen Scorned</title>
		<link>http://www.desperateindc.com/domestic-bliss/re-hell-hath-no-fury-like-a-pre-teen-scorned/</link>
		<comments>http://www.desperateindc.com/domestic-bliss/re-hell-hath-no-fury-like-a-pre-teen-scorned/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cherie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Bliss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technologically Speaking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Darling P, I was fully prepared to lecture you about establishing good boundaries with your children and not allowing their petty manipulations to sway your good judgment in matters they cannot fully understand.  Which, unless I&#8217;ve missed an important detail in your saga, is exactly what you should do.  My situation, however, is entirely different [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Blissed?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cherie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family Values]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dearest P, I&#39;m certain it&#39;s only been 24 hours since you made your hasty exit to London for the month long vacation only Europeans seem able to justify, but I really need your immediate opinion on a matter at home.&#0160; You most certainly know my firm belief that people who speak glowingly about children and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Re: Summer Blissed</title>
		<link>http://www.desperateindc.com/family-values/re-summer-blissed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cherie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family Values]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dear C, Wonderful to hear how the green shoots of economic regrowth are sprouting up in the Village in my absence, especially since the talk here in London is all doom and gloom these days, and that&#39;s not just when the locals are discussing the weather. May I be the first to place an order [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Real Mother in My House</title>
		<link>http://www.desperateindc.com/family-values/the-real-mother-in-my-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 May 2006 13:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cherie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family Values]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[P, As the mother-in-law was visiting this weekend, I took the opportunity to take her to lunch today for her Mother&#8217;s Day gift.&#160; I think the real present was my sincere expression of gratitude for helping her son become the man I love today&#8211;or most days, anyway.&#160; What I failed to mention are the times [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Re: The Real Mother in My House</title>
		<link>http://www.desperateindc.com/family-values/re-the-real-mother-in-my-house/</link>
		<comments>http://www.desperateindc.com/family-values/re-the-real-mother-in-my-house/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 May 2006 22:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cherie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family Values]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dear C, Funny, &#8216;cos the first time I met your mother-in-law, I thought she actually was hubby in a leisure suit and a tan&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.Seriously though, while the Spartans may have approved of your hard-knocks school of parenting, I&#8217;m afraid I can&#8217;t. Ingenious though it may be to teach your youngest to fend for herself by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snip Snip Clip Clip</title>
		<link>http://www.desperateindc.com/family-values/snip-snip-clip-clip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2006 22:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cherie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family Values]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[P, As it&#8217;s clear that hubby and I have far exceeded the natural limits of human tolerance and mangement capacity with four cherubs, I&#8217;m considering asking hubby to go under the knife to end his future reproductive capacity.&#160; Although there are certainly methods I can use to avoid childbirth in the future (only some of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Re: Snip, Snip, Clip, Clip</title>
		<link>http://www.desperateindc.com/family-values/re-snip-snip-clip-clip/</link>
		<comments>http://www.desperateindc.com/family-values/re-snip-snip-clip-clip/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2006 22:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cherie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family Values]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[C, While I agree that you and hubby have done more than enough to re-populate the world, when it comes to my emasculating the oldballandchain, I suddenly find myself uncharacteristically reluctant to go for the snip.&#160; Not that I am in any way condoning your internist&#8217;s point of view vis a vis preserving a man&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Most Startling Discovery</title>
		<link>http://www.desperateindc.com/family-values/a-most-startling-discovery/</link>
		<comments>http://www.desperateindc.com/family-values/a-most-startling-discovery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2006 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cherie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family Values]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[P, Returned home from exercise this a.m. to a remarkable scene: three children, a baby and a husband saluting me at the door.&#160; I promptly saluted back and released the olders to their father&#8217;s care for transport to school and took the youngers in hand for whatever it is we spend our day doing until [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Re: A Most Startling Discovery</title>
		<link>http://www.desperateindc.com/family-values/re-a-most-startling-discovery/</link>
		<comments>http://www.desperateindc.com/family-values/re-a-most-startling-discovery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2006 12:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cherie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family Values]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dear C (aka Il Duce), Wish I could have witnessed the charming little scene outside your front door this morning. Next time, perhaps, you could order them to parade around the block, with a pause outside our house for a twenty-one gun salute? It may be the most effective way to wake my own children [...]]]></description>
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