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		<title>Kids, Food and Bodies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Harding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the New Jersey Moms Blog today, my friend Suzi mentioned her struggle to accept her body and not pass along body image issues to her very awesome daughters. (She also mentioned SP. Thanks, lady!) That made me think it&#8217;s time to recycle a question we&#8217;ve put to the Shapelings before: How the hell do &#8230; <span class="more-link"><a href="http://kateharding.net/2008/10/20/kids-food-and-bodies/">Continue reading &#187;</a></span><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateharding.net&#038;blog=920046&#038;post=2049&#038;subd=kateharding&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So Many Kinds of Wrong</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Harding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, lots of people have been writing about (and e-mailing about) this new study that claims pregnant women who eat more calories are more likely to have boys. And the fun part is, everyone&#8217;s pissed off about it for different reasons. Whee! Liss takes down the unexamined assumption at the heart of it: that &#8220;How &#8230; <span class="more-link"><a href="http://kateharding.net/2008/04/24/so-many-kinds-of-wrong/">Continue reading &#187;</a></span><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateharding.net&#038;blog=920046&#038;post=1398&#038;subd=kateharding&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Open for Discussion: Fat Kids</title>
		<link>http://kateharding.net/2008/01/02/open-for-discussion-fat-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Harding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In comments on the Fat People are Big Fat Liars post, an interesting side discussion has cropped up about how parents deal with advocating for their fat (or thin) kids. I wanted to move it up here, because I know there are a lot of Shapelings who are parents, or aspire to be parents, or &#8230; <span class="more-link"><a href="http://kateharding.net/2008/01/02/open-for-discussion-fat-kids/">Continue reading &#187;</a></span><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateharding.net&#038;blog=920046&#038;post=1191&#038;subd=kateharding&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Evolution Will Totally Make Us Prettier. Except for the Goblins.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Harding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the second time in a week, I find myself wondering if the BBC is seriously just fucking with us. Just when you thought evolutionary theorists were the reasonable ones, along comes Oliver Curry of the London School of Economics to tell us that H.G. Wells was right &#8212; somewhere down the line, the human &#8230; <span class="more-link"><a href="http://kateharding.net/2007/10/25/evolution-will-totally-make-us-prettier-except-for-the-goblins/">Continue reading &#187;</a></span><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateharding.net&#038;blog=920046&#038;post=1071&#038;subd=kateharding&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Mom Update</title>
		<link>http://kateharding.net/2007/08/24/bad-mom-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Harding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Solomon, as I was writing this. (Note blurred motion in tail area.) So, I started a whole long post about cooking this morning, which I will probably go back to next week (since it&#8217;s more than half-finished, and that&#8217;s the kind of thing I like to have handy on vacay). Today, I need to tell &#8230; <span class="more-link"><a href="http://kateharding.net/2007/08/24/bad-mom-update/">Continue reading &#187;</a></span><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateharding.net&#038;blog=920046&#038;post=935&#038;subd=kateharding&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Nappies and Wiener Dogs and Depression</title>
		<link>http://kateharding.net/2007/05/26/on-nappies-and-wiener-dogs-and-depression/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2007 14:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day, I had two thoughts in a row. (I know, can you believe it?) 1. Oh my god, today was the best day ever! It was warm and breezy, and I got a green tea lemonade and went down to the beach with a book and saw a tiny wiener dog puppy! COULD &#8230; <span class="more-link"><a href="http://kateharding.net/2007/05/26/on-nappies-and-wiener-dogs-and-depression/">Continue reading &#187;</a></span><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateharding.net&#038;blog=920046&#038;post=738&#038;subd=kateharding&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More Rambling about Body Image, Yoga, and My Shitty Childhood</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Harding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Cynical Girl for sharing the new Dove ad (er, Dove &#8220;film&#8221;), &#8220;Evolution,&#8221; which I&#8217;ve watched about half a dozen times now. (The part that kills me is when they retouch the photo to make her eyes bigger; I pretty much expected everything else, but it never occurred to me that they do that. &#8230; <span class="more-link"><a href="http://kateharding.net/2006/10/19/more-rambling-about-body-image-yoga-and-my-shitty-childhood/">Continue reading &#187;</a></span><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateharding.net&#038;blog=920046&#038;post=443&#038;subd=kateharding&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Remind Me to Start Going to Taste of Heaven Every Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2006 08:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Harding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My new favorite blog: Control Your Kids. I&#8217;m way late in weighing in on the Taste of Heaven controversy, but oh well. The bug remains up my ass, because of crap like this: &#8220;The looks I would get when I went in there made me so nervous that I would try to buy the food &#8230; <span class="more-link"><a href="http://kateharding.net/2006/03/01/remind-me-to-start-going-to-taste-of-heaven-every-day/">Continue reading &#187;</a></span><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateharding.net&#038;blog=920046&#038;post=218&#038;subd=kateharding&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Beige Butterfly Ponders Procreation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2005 06:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my first ballet (or, uh, “ballet”) class, when I was three, the teachers once told us that our dancing task for the day was to become butterflies. “What color butterfly do you want to be?” they asked each of us. “PINK!” said every other three-year-old there. “Beige,” said Little Kate. That’s basically all you &#8230; <span class="more-link"><a href="http://kateharding.net/2005/12/06/a-beige-butterfly-ponders-procreation/">Continue reading &#187;</a></span><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateharding.net&#038;blog=920046&#038;post=137&#038;subd=kateharding&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It Deepens Like a Coastal Shelf</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2005 13:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reason number 80 kabillion why I should not have children: some days, I can barely tolerate the transition from sleeping to waking, and I will totally take out my displeasure on anyone who happens to be around for it. Most often these days, that would be the dogs. And for the last two days, my &#8230; <span class="more-link"><a href="http://kateharding.net/2005/10/20/it-deepens-like-a-coastal-shelf/">Continue reading &#187;</a></span><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateharding.net&#038;blog=920046&#038;post=81&#038;subd=kateharding&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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