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		<title>The Importance of Receiving Help – and How to Ask for It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes the act of asking for help can be more difficult than just doing the task yourself. Military families are not strangers to adjusting family roles and taking on extra responsibilities, especially during times of deployment. Asking for help and allowing yourself to receive help can be two of the most challenging aspects of adjusting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://parentszone.org/2011/10/05/the-importance-of-receiving-help-%e2%80%93-and-how-to-ask-for-it/</link>
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		<title>Ideas for a Special Homecoming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The homecoming of your soldier is one of the most anticipated events you can imagine. It is more exciting than waiting for Christmas morning as a child. It can also be filled with a little apprehension as you wonder what it will be like to see him again, have him with you in the home, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://parentszone.org/2011/09/23/ideas-for-a-special-homecoming/</link>
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		<title>Help Your Kids Learn to Deal with Their Emotions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If as an adult you struggle with your soldier being deployed, try to imagine for a moment how your children feel about this confusing and stressful time. Or perhaps you were a military child yourself and you understand the angst that goes along with waiting for a deployment to end and wishing for a sense [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://parentszone.org/2011/09/12/help-your-kids-learn-to-deal-with-their-emotions/</link>
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		<title>Creative Ways to Connect Your Child and Your Soldier</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s never easy for children to be separated from their parents and loved ones, whether it is for military duty or something such as serious illness or injury. Keeping connections between close family members can be just a little bit easier by using a new twist on the traditional Flat Stanley project. Instead of just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://parentszone.org/2011/08/29/899/</link>
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		<title>Celebrating Thanksgiving and Birthdays During Deployment (Part 2!)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In America Thanksgiving is a time of gathering with family and reflecting on all we have in our lives. Even though your soldier might not be able to be present for the celebration, you can include him and help you and your children feel connected to him during this holiday season. Cornucopia of Blessings Take [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://parentszone.org/2011/08/17/celebrating-thanksgiving-and-birthdays-during-deployment/</link>
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		<title>Creative Ways to Celebrate Holidays During Your Soldier’s Deployment (Part 1!)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Holidays and birthdays are those special times when we try to gather with loved ones to celebrate and create memories. When those who are important to us are deployed abroad, keeping traditions and celebrating without them can be a sad reminder of the distance separating you from them. When there are young children involved, finding [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://parentszone.org/2011/08/05/creative-ways-to-celebrate-holidays-during-your-soldier%e2%80%99s-deployment-part-1/</link>
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		<title>Adjusting to Life After Your Soldier Returns from Deployment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You’ve waited months, perhaps more than a year, to welcome your soldier home. You’ve shopped for food to make his favorite meal, arranged for his parents to visit upon his return, and helped the kids make signs welcoming him home. But are you really ready for the return? Sometimes even after all of those sleeplessness [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://parentszone.org/2011/07/25/adjusting-to-life-after-your-soldier-returns-from-deployment/</link>
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		<title>The Company You Keep</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Surround Yourself with Positive People Who See Their Glass as Half-full A glass that is half-full is capable of sharing, providing, and giving. Optimism is not only something that can put smiles on faces, but it is something that can make families healthier and stronger. It is imperative that families surround themselves with others who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://parentszone.org/2011/07/16/the-company-you-keep/</link>
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		<title>Suicide prevention &#8211; for all.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine, who blogs at Gold Star Mom Speaks Out wrote this and graciously allowed me to post it here. When the military talks out loud about suicides in the military, it&#8217;s a good thing. This week in Washington DC 1,000 people are attending a four-day Suicide Prevention Conference sponsored by the Department [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://parentszone.org/2010/01/18/suicide-prevention-for-all/</link>
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		<title>The Bonds That Tie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over at PBS.org I have written a post about the meaningful bonds that are forged during military service&#8230; among soldiers&#8230; among wives&#8230; among parents&#8230; Throughout the course of our lifetimes, we make and break bonds with people. Some bonds are formed in friendship: schoolmates, neighbors, fellow workers. I have close friends from each of those [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://parentszone.org/2009/12/22/the-bonds-that-tie/</link>
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