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		<title>Why do Boys Fail?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Why do Boys Fail?&#8217; was the subject of our July discussion.
The forum was introduced by Jo Sedley, a primary school teacher.
She looked at why there is such an obsession with boys failing at school and critically examining the proposed solutions to this-from good role models to  attempting to foster &#8217;self-esteem&#8217;.
Recommended reading:
Help Your Boys Succeed: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sure Start</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 12:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We met on Thursday 27th May 2010 in Central London to discuss SureStart.
In all the discussions around the general election there is one thing all commentators and parties have agreed on &#8211; that is that Sure Start is a good thing. This forum will look at why is Sure Start so feted; and what will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summary of the parties&#8217; policies on families</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a useful summary put together by Civitas:
www.civitas.org.uk/pubs/familyoverview.php
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		<title>The book bag-should it be defended?</title>
		<link>http://www.parentswithattitude.com/parentsforum/the-book-bag-should-it-be-defended/ </link>
		<comments>http://www.parentswithattitude.com/parentsforum/the-book-bag-should-it-be-defended/ #comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The book bag]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.parentswithattitude.com/parentsforum/?p=256</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was at a conference recently and a debate started about the book bag. For those of you who don&#8217;t have children at primary school in the UK a book bag is a bag in which children bring home their reading books from school. As well as books the bag contains a document which the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Next Parents&#8217; Forum: Are young girls being sexualized?</title>
		<link>http://www.parentswithattitude.com/parentsforum/next-parents-forum-are-young-girls-being-sexualized/ </link>
		<comments>http://www.parentswithattitude.com/parentsforum/next-parents-forum-are-young-girls-being-sexualized/ #comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Panics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.parentswithattitude.com/parentsforum/?p=250</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[March 2010 7pm
In our seemingly ceaseless appetite to problematise teenagers, the latest discussion is the sexualisation of children. Cameron and Balls are fighting it out as to who identified this issue first, and who can introduce the most regulations against advertisers.
This forum critically examines are children being sexualized? What does this mean? What is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Next meeting: why the family has become the pre-election topic</title>
		<link>http://www.parentswithattitude.com/parentsforum/family-has-become-the-pre-election-topic/ </link>
		<comments>http://www.parentswithattitude.com/parentsforum/family-has-become-the-pre-election-topic/ #comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[February 25, 2010
Angus Kennedy will be introducing why the family has become the pre election topic debate. With Labour publishing its Green Paper on the family in January (with a particular emphasis on the roles of fathers) and David Cameron announcing that the Tory party will mend Broken Britain.
There are news articles on this topic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sarah&#8217;s Law</title>
		<link>http://www.parentswithattitude.com/parentsforum/sarahs-law/ </link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[child protection policy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is something so profoundly upsetting and depressing about the implementation of Sarah&#8217;s law.
10 years ago Sarah Payne was abducted and murdered by a convicted sex offender. It was a crime of opportunity-Sarah was playing in a field, and her abductor happened to be driving by and seized the child. It is every parent&#8217;s worst [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parenting-the theme for the general election?</title>
		<link>http://www.parentswithattitude.com/parentsforum/parenting-the-theme-for-the-general-election/ </link>
		<comments>http://www.parentswithattitude.com/parentsforum/parenting-the-theme-for-the-general-election/ #comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[General Election]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.parentswithattitude.com/parentsforum/?p=233</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Tories do seem to be making the family a main plank of the election build up. David Cameron was at Demos yesterday declaring that &#8220;What matters most to a child&#8217;s life chances is not the wealth of their upbringing but the warmth of their parenting.&#8221; Presumably Cameron&#8217;s life chances were not enhanced by being educated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marriage Allowance</title>
		<link>http://www.parentswithattitude.com/parentsforum/marriage-allowance/ </link>
		<comments>http://www.parentswithattitude.com/parentsforum/marriage-allowance/ #comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Marriage allowance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.parentswithattitude.com/parentsforum/?p=230</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Has anyone been following the whole saga about will the Tories give married couple tax breaks? In one way I don&#8217;t get the whole thing. Presumably what it means is that tax breaks apply to a situation whereby one of the spouses goes to work and the other one stays at home; so the working [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The British Family on tv</title>
		<link>http://www.parentswithattitude.com/parentsforum/the-british-family/ </link>
		<comments>http://www.parentswithattitude.com/parentsforum/the-british-family/ #comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[TV shows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child safety]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[killjoys]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The British Family looks to be an interesting 4-part series presented by Kirsty Young. On BBC2 at 9pm from Monday 11 January 2010.
Here&#8217;s the promo: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00q08ft
And here&#8217;s a piece about the background to the series: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8441207.stm
]]></description>
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