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		<title>Read with animation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 04:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I ran across a book review in a newspaper. The book being reviewed was &#8220;Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children will Change Their Lives Forever,&#8221; by Mem Fox. It was the headline of the column that caught my attention &#8212; Dads and books make a powerful combination.
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		<title>First Kiss</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life is full of firsts and some of the most memorable for teens revolve around relationships. First boyfriends, holding hands and other little things become life-long memories that stand almost as measuring sticks for everything that comes after. Even if they aren&#8217;t monumental in the long run, they usually linger like a sort of keepsake [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aesopsdaughters.wordpress.com&blog=3791557&post=24&subd=aesopsdaughters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When to date?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi, it’s Susan again. I would like to discuss teenage dating. Why? Cuz I&#8217;m interested in a guy that is a little older than me but my parents have a problem with me dating at my age. 
So, what is an appropriate dating age? Does it revolve around the age or the maturity level of your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aesopsdaughters.wordpress.com&blog=3791557&post=23&subd=aesopsdaughters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cormac McCarthy&#8217;s &#8220;The Road&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently read Cormac McCarthy&#8217;s 2006 novel &#8220;The Road,&#8221; which won the Pulitzer Price for Fiction. There are no daughters in the story, but some of the dynamics seemed appropriate to this blog.
They story is about a father and son traveling across a post-apocalyptic landscape. They are on the road that leads from the horrible [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aesopsdaughters.wordpress.com&blog=3791557&post=22&subd=aesopsdaughters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WALL-E</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lucy and I went to see WALL-E the other night. It was highly rated at Rottentomatoes and seemed the kind of film we would both enjoy.
There were lots of things to like about &#8220;WALL-E,&#8221; not the least of which is the little robot himself. Wall-E is the last of his kind, a Waste Allocator Load [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aesopsdaughters.wordpress.com&blog=3791557&post=21&subd=aesopsdaughters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Father&#8217;s Day with the Prince</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The day before Father&#8217;s Day the girls and I went to see &#8220;Prince Caspian.&#8221; This was my gift to me, because they were leaving the next day to visit friends in Virginia. My Dad&#8217;s Day would be spent largely alone.
So we joined a church group taking in the latest adaptation of the CS Lewis Narnia [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aesopsdaughters.wordpress.com&blog=3791557&post=20&subd=aesopsdaughters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Becoming father</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I never liked children. Noisy, troublesome, messy, monsters. As a younger man I stood amazed in grocery stores, malls, almost any public place. Who would bring these nasty, hateful little creatures into the world to whine, cry, scream, fight with their siblings, disobey their parents, be rude to their elders and on and on and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aesopsdaughters.wordpress.com&blog=3791557&post=18&subd=aesopsdaughters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fun on field day</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lucy, my younger daughter, recently had field day at school. Field Day, for those who don&#8217;t recall, is that late spring school day when everyone gets to go outside and participate in athletic events. What great fun to get out of the stuffy school building and run around in the sun.
Well, it isn&#8217;t all fun, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aesopsdaughters.wordpress.com&blog=3791557&post=13&subd=aesopsdaughters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Memories of The Talk</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago my younger daughter came home chuckling about The Talk. She thought it rather funny in material and presentation, especially in light of how we typically talk about those issues. My older daughter explained that the district now has several versions of that special event. Once in elementary, once in middle school and then finally in high school. The elementary version my youngest just attended deals predominantly with (for her) the female system and things like having a period. It struck me that my kids are now getting the talk from various sources; home, school, church, media (a lot of TV is passively presenting a rather warped version of The Talk almost all of the time). Later I'll let my kids weigh in with their perspectives of that "right of passage" and I certainly want to look at the potentially competing sources of this information. But most immediately this sparked some memories for me.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aesopsdaughters.wordpress.com&blog=3791557&post=10&subd=aesopsdaughters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A tale of two daughters</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 03:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The great story-teller Aesop told a fable of two daughters. One married a farmer, the other married a tile maker. Dad visited the first daughter who said the only thing she needed to make her happiness more complete was a lot more rain. Second, Dad dropped in to see his other daughter. She told him the only thing she needed to make her happiness more complete was no rain at all. For what was poor Dad to wish?

Why repeat this story? It provides the title for this blog. What does it mean? A few things. The story is about the difficulties of human nature and how not everyone can have what they want. I have two daughters whose wants are sometimes at odds. Sometimes I get stuck in between. My two girls will sometimes post here and at others they will offer their opinions on things I post (I'll share their names later). Sometimes we will write about stuff we like (individually or together). It may be nothing deeper than a book or a movie. Sometimes we will write about items that interest and concern us. Almost always our posts will be informed by the complex and important relationships between fathers and daughters.

Maybe the stuff we write about won't be of interest to anyone but us. That's fine. Writing is a form of communication. Honest communication is usually helpful. What dad wouldn't want to talk more with his daughters?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aesopsdaughters.wordpress.com&blog=3791557&post=8&subd=aesopsdaughters&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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