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	<title>Helping Children in Campbell River...</title>
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	<description>...THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT AND FOLLOWING OUR BLOG.</description>
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		<title>Invest in Your Child&#8217;s Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Parents have a huge financial burden these days when it comes time for their children to go onto higher education. Unless you are proactive in saving and investing, you may find yourself unprepared for the high cost of college tuition.]]></description>
		<link>http://helpingchildren.ezabu.com/2010/03/12/invest-in-your-childs-future/</link>
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		<title>Investing in Education Before Age 5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is widely accepted that once children turn the magic age of five that education becomes a public responsibility. Hardly anyone complains about public spending on education.]]></description>
		<link>http://helpingchildren.ezabu.com/2010/03/04/investing-in-education-before-age-5/</link>
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		<title>Today’s Children:   The First to Spend Much of Childhood in Out-of-Home-Care</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More than any other time in history: a majority of Canada’s children are growing up in child care settings.  Like other of the world’s richest countries, Canada is engaged in a unprecedented child care transition.   ]]></description>
		<link>http://helpingchildren.ezabu.com/2010/03/04/today%e2%80%99s-children-the-first-to-spend-much-of-childhood-in-out-of-home-care/</link>
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		<title>Family Friendly &#8211; What&#8217;s in it for your business?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Figuring out the return on investment for a business that is family friendly is a tricky issue. Why does early childhood development factor into a business model at all?

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		<link>http://helpingchildren.ezabu.com/2010/02/24/family-friendly-whats-in-it-for-your-business/</link>
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		<title>Be a Great Role Model!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We all hope that children have good, strong role models who possess the kind of qualities that make our sons and daughters want to be (and become) better people. While there is some variation in every parent’s definition of what it means to be a good person, the following 7 characteristics of a positive role model remain constant.]]></description>
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		<title>Children and Taxes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you’re preparing to have children, likely the last thing on your mind is, “How does this affect my taxes?”   What you may not know is that while having children increases costs in your household,]]></description>
		<link>http://helpingchildren.ezabu.com/2010/02/15/children-and-taxes-2/</link>
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		<title>Early signs of a reading difficulty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Parents are often the first to suspect their child has a reading problem. An expert alerts parents to some of the earliest indicators of a reading difficulty...what should you look for?]]></description>
		<link>http://helpingchildren.ezabu.com/2010/02/10/early-signs-of-a-reading-difficulty/</link>
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		<title>Coping with frightening events</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is no easy way to talk to children about the nightmarish events and threatening stories they see in the media almost every day. Yet it is one of the most important things we can do as caring adults.]]></description>
		<link>http://helpingchildren.ezabu.com/2010/02/03/coping-with-frightening-events/</link>
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		<title>Helping your child understand Haiti’s devastation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Parents often don't give children a chance to talk. In situations like this, kids feel helpless, which can lead to feeling very overwhelmed by the situation. Parents need to combat these feelings of helplessness by having conversations with their kids about the devastation in Haiti.]]></description>
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		<title>It is your life you are developing.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Your life, and the lives of your children, will prosper to the degree you can openly structure self-directed learning and keep it pleasurable. This is the educational importance of the Internet - you can discover and test thousands of ways to learn, and find what suits you best.]]></description>
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