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		<title>The Parenting Apocolypse</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://blog.elizabethhoward.net/2010/02/04/the-parenting-apocolypse/' addthis:title='The Parenting Apocolypse '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>Wow there is SO much &#8220;content&#8221; out there in the World (Wide Web) to inform, amuse, and berate today&#8217;s parent. I mean, don&#8217;t get me wrong. Some of it is actually useful. Such as the answers to basic questions like &#8220;Which end is up, again?&#8221;  &#8220;Will it ever stop pooping?&#8221; and the classic follow up, &#8220;Will the poop ever make it to the toilet bowl?&#8221; The BEST part about parenting website, blogs, advice columns and books is the one inherent truth in parenting: all parents simultaneously feel like a big fat failure in child raising while also believing that they are 100 percent right about their parenting method. So basically, reading parenting tips is like self-flagellation that has been outsourced. The breadth of knowledge we have available only leads me to believe we might actually be approaching the end of the world, led by a pack of rabid Moms who all insist that Their Child is &#8220;Gifted.&#8221; They will only shortly be followed by the Homeschoolers, Welfare Moms/Dads with More Than Four Kids, and Perpetual Playdaters. Is it spring yet? You might also like: The Happiest Terrorist (see new definition) It&#8217;s No Secret&#8230;<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" addthis:url='http://blog.elizabethhoward.net/2010/02/04/the-parenting-apocolypse/' addthis:title='The Parenting Apocolypse ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://blog.elizabethhoward.net/2010/02/04/the-parenting-apocolypse/' addthis:title='The Parenting Apocolypse '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div><p><img class="alignright" title="End of the World" src="http://konicki.com/blog2/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/end_world.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="313" />Wow there is SO much &#8220;content&#8221; out there in the World (Wide Web) to inform, amuse, and berate today&#8217;s parent.</p>
<p>I mean, don&#8217;t get me wrong. Some of it is actually useful. Such as the answers to basic questions like &#8220;Which end is up, again?&#8221;  &#8220;Will it ever stop pooping?&#8221; and the classic follow up, &#8220;Will the poop ever make it to the toilet bowl?&#8221;</p>
<p>The BEST part about parenting website, blogs, advice columns and books is the one inherent truth in parenting: all parents simultaneously feel like a big fat failure in child raising while also believing that they are 100 percent right about their parenting method.</p>
<p>So basically, reading parenting tips is like self-flagellation that has been outsourced.</p>
<p>The breadth of knowledge we have available only leads me to believe we might actually be approaching the end of the world, led by a pack of rabid Moms who all insist that Their Child is &#8220;Gifted.&#8221;</p>
<p>They will only shortly be followed by the Homeschoolers, Welfare Moms/Dads with More Than Four Kids, and Perpetual Playdaters.</p>
<p>Is it spring yet?</p>
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<li><a href='http://blog.elizabethhoward.net/2009/03/05/its-no-secret/' rel='bookmark' title='It&#8217;s No Secret&#8230;'>It&#8217;s No Secret&#8230;</a></li>
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