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		<title>Giving Good Instructions to Children</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Does getting your child to do something feel like an impossible task? One of the reasons may be the way in which you are asking. Children are not necessarily receptive to the types of verbal instruction that we use with our spouse, colleagues or other adults. Instructions for children must be given in a way [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.achildsacademy.com/2012/01/02/giving-good-instructions-to-children/</link>
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		<title>Child Care Challenges &#8211; Biting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How to manage biting behavior in children Christine Koh, Care.com contributing writer Parents dread being the parent of the classroom or play group biter, but it happens and is a common developmental phase for many children. Here are some pointers to help parents and caregivers work through the challenge of biting. Remember that the behavior [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.achildsacademy.com/2012/01/02/child-care-challenges-biting/</link>
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		<title>20 Healthy New Year’s Resolutions for Kids!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following New Year tips are from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). For additional re-sources from the American Academy of Pediatrics visit their website at www.aap.org. Preschoolers I will clean up my toys and put them where they belong. I will brush my teeth twice a day, and wash my hands after going to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.achildsacademy.com/2012/01/02/20-healthy-new-years-resolutions-for-kids/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Dismiss Early Education as Just Cute; It&#8217;s Critical</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Picture an arborist puzzled by an ailing tree. He has tried giving it more water. He has protected it from blight. Why won&#8217;t it grow? If the tree stands for public education, the arborist is today&#8217;s education reformer. Ideas continue to pour forth on how to help students, fix schools and revamp No Child Left [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.achildsacademy.com/2011/11/02/dont-dismiss-early-education-as-just-cute-its-critical/</link>
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		<title>ACA Halloween Slideshow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our kids looked so cute! We loved seeing everyone dressed up and having fun so we thought we would put this slideshow together for our Family&#8217;s to enjoy!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.achildsacademy.com/2011/11/01/aca-halloween-slideshow/</link>
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		<title>Ed Policies Ignore Science on How/When Kids Learn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our education system starts at age 5, pays little attention to children’s development and achievement until third grade, and is strewn with remedial programs to get older children back on track. Meanwhile, studies keep pouring forth that highlight the importance of children’s earliest years – birth to age 8 – in developing the mental capacity [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.achildsacademy.com/2011/10/30/ed-policies-ignore-science-on-howwhen-kids-learn/</link>
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		<title>Are Children&#8217;s Ebooks Any Good?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do digital books help young kids learn to read,or are they mostly fun and games? When Julie Hume, a reading specialist in University City, MO, first saw the potential of a children’s ebook, it was larger than life. The book was projected on a smartboard at the front of a classroom, with huge, easily readable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.achildsacademy.com/2011/10/28/are-childrens-ebooks-any-good/</link>
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		<title>Your Kid’s Brain, SpongeBob-ed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Mindless TV is Too Hard to Follow SpongeBob SquarePants is not the sharpest sponge in the ocean, despite his angularity. In fact it’s his amiable cluelessness that probably endears him to a large segment of American TV viewers, who appear to be sustaining a robust market for T-shirts and toddler sippy cups blaring out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.achildsacademy.com/2011/10/25/your-kid%e2%80%99s-brain-spongebob-ed/</link>
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		<title>Child Care in Race to the Top</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Will the New Federal Competition Foster Innovation and Bring More Attention to the Needs of Parents and Children? In May, President Obama announced a $500 million federal grant competition to improve early childhood education in America. This competition, modeled on the Race to the Top program that spotlighted the need for public school reform, has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.achildsacademy.com/2011/10/22/child-care-in-race-to-the-top/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Missing in Early Education and Child Care?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Thursday, the Early Education Initiative is co-hosting an event with the Workforce and Family Program at New America to shine a spotlight on the need for change in child care and early education. More than 11 million American children spend time in non-parental care each day. Millions of families rely on some aspect of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.achildsacademy.com/2011/10/19/whats-missing-in-early-education-and-child-care/</link>
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