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	<title>Growing Food and Kids &#187; playing outside</title>
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		<title>Safety first</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Mann Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If yours is a family who loves to spend time outdoors, chances are you’ll be in the water from time to time. Our boys’ favorite days are the ones spent by a creek, lake, river, or pool. There are rocks to skip, fish to catch, diving boards to jump off of. 
But as much fun [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wednesday List: Ten ways to spend a spring day outside</title>
		<link>http://www.growingfoodandkids.com/2010/05/the-wednesday-list-ten-ways-to-spend-a-spring-day-outside/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 21:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Mann Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. Go on a picnic. 
2. Stage a relay race. 
3. Find a creek and catch crawfish or minnows. 
4. Hunt for snakes or frogs in your garden. 
5. Climb a tree. 
6. Read a book under a tree. 
7. Pick vegetables in the garden. 
8. Take a hike. 
9. Pick wildflowers and share them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A blog post haiku</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 02:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Mann Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Haiku Day in the WordCount Blogathon. Bloggers across the Internet are posting in the form of haiku today. Fun, fun! As you might remember from elementary school, a haiku is a poem focused on one thought that is expressed in 17 syllables (five syllables in the first line, seven in the second line, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nature: The Nice-Maker</title>
		<link>http://www.growingfoodandkids.com/2010/05/nature-the-nice-maker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 13:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Mann Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On the remaining Fridays of the WordCount Blogathon, I’m republishing popular posts from the past. This one originally appeared in October 2009. 
We parents knew that spending time outside did something positive for our kids (besides making them take a better nap). And now a new study shows that people who spend more time in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six great garden and outdoors blogs</title>
		<link>http://www.growingfoodandkids.com/2010/05/six-great-garden-and-outdoors-blogs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 14:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Mann Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[gardening with kids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[playing outside]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Backyard Mama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Children & Nature Network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Go Explore Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Loving Nature's Garden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slow Family Online]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I write about gardening and outdoor topics (for this blog and for other publications), I’m always interested in reading what others have to say about these subjects. And it’s no surprise that there are a ton of good blogs focused on gardening and exploring the outdoors with kids. Here are six good ones to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wednesday List: Ten things to find on a nature walk</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 14:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Mann Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My boys love to go for a walk in the woods, or just around the corner. And they have the most fun when we bring along a brown paper bag for each of them with a list of things to find and put in the bag. If you want to organize your own nature hike, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take your children to the park on May 22</title>
		<link>http://www.growingfoodandkids.com/2010/05/take-your-children-to-the-park-on-may-22/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 17:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Mann Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Saturday, May 22, has been declared “Take Your Children to the Park … and Leave Them There” Day by Lenore Skenazy, a mom and author of Free-Range Kids and owner of the blog of the same name. In the name of encouraging creativity and activity, Skenazy encourages parents of school-age children to let their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playing with poison</title>
		<link>http://www.growingfoodandkids.com/2010/05/playing-with-poison/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 13:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Mann Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kaiser Family Foundation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[poison oak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[urushiol oil]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the remaining Fridays in the WordCount Blogathon, I’m republishing some popular posts from the past. This one originally appeared in September 2009.
Our Big Boy was sent home early from preschool one day last week. He wasn’t sick. He wasn’t biting other kids. He just couldn’t stop scratching. He’d clawed his arms and legs to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tremendous Treehouses</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 21:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Mann Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Huntsville Botanical Garden]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most kids would give anything to have a sprawling tree house of their own in the backyard. But if they can’t, the next best thing is to play in someone else’s tree house. At the Huntsville Botanical Garden, the Tremendous Treehouses exhibit is just the place for kids to adopt a tree house for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five ways to make planting fun</title>
		<link>http://www.growingfoodandkids.com/2010/05/five-ways-to-make-planting-fun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 20:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Mann Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[playing outside]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Planting the garden has never been one of my favorite activities. But a few weeks ago, on a warm spring day, it was time to get most of our seeds in the ground. We were all itching to get outside in the sun, and instead of a dreaded chore, planting the garden turned into a [...]]]></description>
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