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		<title>Son, You Make Me Proud</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Son, I don&#8217;t think I have told you how proud of you I am lately.  You are a remarkable toddler who is extremely smart and resilient.   Your ability to learn things quickly puts a smile on the face of your mother and myself.   Also you pick your self right up after you have fallen [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=therookiedad.com&#038;blog=18986400&#038;post=3042&#038;subd=therookiedad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In This Time of Tragedy, I See Hope</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kid, You will never know what happened just a day ago in Boston.  You will hear about it every year the Boston Marathon ran through the streets.   I will do my best to not dwell on what happened.  Something tells me that you were aware something was happening, I spent more time with you, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=therookiedad.com&#038;blog=18986400&#038;post=3034&#038;subd=therookiedad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<link>http://therookiedad.com/2013/04/08/oh-im-sorry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Son, it has been a while since I shared a story with you. You have been learning so quickly that is difficult to keep up. Yesterday though you just did something so dang cute that I have to share this memory! You ran up to Anna (our new puppy) as she was sleeping against the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=therookiedad.com&#038;blog=18986400&#038;post=3029&#038;subd=therookiedad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Been Tough</title>
		<link>http://therookiedad.com/2013/01/14/its-been-tough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 03:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It may look on the outside that I do not feel for you son.  It may seem that I am hiding a lot of my emotions  It may look like I am not being a good dad but this whole tough love deal was tougher than imagined. We did not realize last week that you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=therookiedad.com&#038;blog=18986400&#038;post=3013&#038;subd=therookiedad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tough Love</title>
		<link>http://therookiedad.com/2013/01/04/tough-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Son, it is time for some tough love. We are a week into the third round of the toddler bed.   Before your mother and me did not have the energy to fully invest ourselves into getting you to stay asleep in your room.  You would come crawl into bed with us, kicking me in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=therookiedad.com&#038;blog=18986400&#038;post=3005&#038;subd=therookiedad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Love You, Son</title>
		<link>http://therookiedad.com/2012/12/17/i-love-you-son/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[William, this is one of the few times I will address you by name.  But I want you to know this&#8230; I Love You! While what happened to the 7 to 8-year-old children in Newtown, Connecticut is tragic, it will not keep me from letting you grow up.  I can&#8217;t protect you forever.  You always want to hold [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=therookiedad.com&#038;blog=18986400&#038;post=2999&#038;subd=therookiedad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Always Believe</title>
		<link>http://therookiedad.com/2012/12/10/always-believe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Son, this piece of advice that I am going to give you is something that I wish I had done when I was younger, yet I know that later it will come back to bite me in the butt. Santa is real. You have just started recognizing who this strange man is.  You know that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=therookiedad.com&#038;blog=18986400&#038;post=2995&#038;subd=therookiedad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Travel Tips</title>
		<link>http://therookiedad.com/2012/11/20/travel-tips/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Son, I dread the holidays.  Well OK, you got me, I love the holidays.  I just hate the holiday travel.  At this time you probably don&#8217;t know why.  I know that you probably hate being strapped into your car seat for hours on end as we go and see family, get used it.  Once you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=therookiedad.com&#038;blog=18986400&#038;post=2986&#038;subd=therookiedad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Parental Advice</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 13:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Son, I am going to give you some advice.  I know that you will not completely understand what I am talking about until you are 40.  Some advice that your grandparents have given me, I still haven&#8217;t learned. This piece of advice though I don&#8217;t want you to wait 5 years upon entering the real [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=therookiedad.com&#038;blog=18986400&#038;post=2982&#038;subd=therookiedad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Science of the &#8220;No&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 13:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Son, you are developing an attitude.  I realize that you are two and that my bad attempts at rationalizing with you are futile.  I know that telling you if you eat atleast 3 bites of your meal will lead to getting to watch the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving will never really mean anything to you.  More [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=therookiedad.com&#038;blog=18986400&#038;post=2975&#038;subd=therookiedad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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