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	<description>Let your kids go outside and play</description>
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		<title>Our Neighborhood Magician</title>
		<link>http://playborhood.com/2012/05/our-neighborhood-magician/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 20:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Lanza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have a magician in our neighborhood. His name is Hugh, The Magic Beard. Kids around here call him Huey. In most neighborhoods, people wouldn&#8217;t notice him, or if they did, they&#8217;d notice him for his long beard and sixties-hippy appearance. However, this is Northern California, home of the Grateful Dead. We&#8217;ve all seen many folks who look like Hugh around here. On the other hand, because my family and I have invested extra time in our neighborhood, we&#8217;ve gotten &#8230; <a href="http://playborhood.com/2012/05/our-neighborhood-magician/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Kids Don&#8217;t Want Privacy &#8211; They Want Playmates!</title>
		<link>http://playborhood.com/2012/05/kids-dont-want-privacy-they-want-playmates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 22:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Lanza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most children, particularly young ones, don&#8217;t care at all about privacy in their yards. Rather, they want to play, and when they reach a certain age, they&#8217;re very keen to find playmates to share in their play.  Most parents ignore this fact when they erect high bushes and fences for privacy. Melissa Wardy&#8217;s family in Janesville, Wisconsin, proves that letting the world see and hear you improves your family&#8217;s social life.  They live on a corner bordering two busy roads, &#8230; <a href="http://playborhood.com/2012/05/kids-dont-want-privacy-they-want-playmates/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Fake Baseball</title>
		<link>http://playborhood.com/2012/04/fake-baseball/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 06:50:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Lanza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My seven-year-old, Marco, plays fake baseball on an organized team.  That&#8217;s right.  In his league, the kids go through the motions like they&#8217;re playing real baseball, but they&#8217;re just faking.  There are nine players on each team, and there are four bases on the field, but these games have no outs, no runs, and no winner or loser.  Blahhhh&#8230; &#8220;Why can&#8217;t we have outs and runs?&#8221; asked Marco after his first game.  &#8220;I don&#8217;t like this.  It&#8217;s boring.&#8221; I don&#8217;t &#8230; <a href="http://playborhood.com/2012/04/fake-baseball/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Playborhood Book Marks the End of the Beginning&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://playborhood.com/2012/04/the-playborhood-book-marks-the-end-of-the-beginning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 05:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Lanza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So here it is. This is what I&#8217;ve worked on for five years on this blog, in my neighborhood, and in other neighborhoods throughout the US. It&#8217;s called Playborhood: Turn Your Neighborhood Into a Place for Play. Buy it at Amazon.com, or from a growing number of community bookstores like Keplers in my hometown of Menlo Park, California. Yes, it&#8217;s not perfect, but it&#8217;s pretty damned good. I&#8217;m proud. I&#8217;m happy. I really think, in the course of doing all &#8230; <a href="http://playborhood.com/2012/04/the-playborhood-book-marks-the-end-of-the-beginning/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Kids Want to Play Outside More Than Anything, If Given the Opportunity</title>
		<link>http://playborhood.com/2012/03/kids-want-to-play-outside-more-than-anything-if-given-the-opportunity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Lanza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are kids today different than they were decades ago, in Beaver Cleaver&#8217;s day? Do they not play outside on their own because they&#8217;d prefer to sit in front of a screen inside or participate in some adult-managed activity outside? From my experience in our Playborhood, I&#8217;d say, &#8220;Absolutely, positively not.&#8221; Kids want to play here with our kids. Bad. They ask their parents to take them here, or if they live close by, they just come over. Most days, you &#8230; <a href="http://playborhood.com/2012/03/kids-want-to-play-outside-more-than-anything-if-given-the-opportunity/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>My Kids Aren&#8217;t Impressed With Disneyworld.  I&#8217;m Impressed.</title>
		<link>http://playborhood.com/2012/02/my-kids-arent-impressed-with-disneyworld-im-impressed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 23:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Lanza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Marco (7) and Nico (4) weren&#8217;t very impressed with Disneyworld a couple of weeks ago. Instead, they can&#8217;t stop talking about our trip in May to Pittsburgh and Southern Indiana. Pittsburgh and Southern Indiana over Disneyworld? Are they crazy? I don&#8217;t think so. Actually, I&#8217;m quite pleased with their choice. You see, in Pittsburgh, they&#8217;ll play like mad with their cousins, who they see too rarely. In Southern Indiana, they&#8217;ll be part of a group hunting for and collecting &#8230; <a href="http://playborhood.com/2012/02/my-kids-arent-impressed-with-disneyworld-im-impressed/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>All Play is Not Equal</title>
		<link>http://playborhood.com/2012/02/all-play-is-not-equal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Lanza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re reading this article, you want kids to &#8220;play.&#8221; Furthermore, you want that play to be &#8220;unstructured,&#8221; or, as I prefer to say, &#8220;unsupervised.&#8221; Play researcher Stuart Brown says that it is, by definition, purposeless and all-consuming. Another play researcher, Peter Gray, writes, &#8220;activity oriented toward intrinsic goals, almost by definition, is play.&#8221; Let&#8217;s face it, folks, this is all pretty vague. The truth is that all play, even within those definitions, is not equal. Far from it. Certainly, &#8230; <a href="http://playborhood.com/2012/02/all-play-is-not-equal/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Jeremy Lin and Tim Tebow are Great Idols for Kids</title>
		<link>http://playborhood.com/2012/02/jeremy-lin-and-tim-tebow-are-great-idols-for-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Lanza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re blessed to have two fabulous &#8211; dare I say historic &#8211; idols for kids in professional sports right now. Jeremy Lin and Tim Tebow are gifts. Let&#8217;s use them. For me, as a kid growing up in Pittsburgh, it was Roberto Clemente. He played his heart out, he had his many unconventional habits (e.g. neck-twitching before each at-bat), he was the first Latino superstar in baseball, and he was extremely generous to the place of his impoverished upbringing &#8211; &#8230; <a href="http://playborhood.com/2012/02/jeremy-lin-and-tim-tebow-are-great-idols-for-kids/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;re Going to Get Louder, Folks!</title>
		<link>http://playborhood.com/2012/01/were-going-to-get-louder-folks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Lanza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Children’s ability to roam has basically been destroyed,&#8221; said Danah Boyd, a researcher on children&#8217;s use of social networking, in a New York Times article today. It&#8217;s typical of our society&#8217;s fatalistic attitude towards childhood. In general, that attitude says, &#8220;Yes, childhood isn&#8217;t as good as it used to be. Just get over it and move on.&#8221; This really pisses me off. No, I&#8217;m not ready to move on. I&#8217;m not ready to accept the prospect of my children having &#8230; <a href="http://playborhood.com/2012/01/were-going-to-get-louder-folks/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>No Plans? No Problem!</title>
		<link>http://playborhood.com/2012/01/no-plans-no-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Lanza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last couple of weekends, my family&#8217;s had a totally empty schedule &#8211; no sports games, birthday parties, play dates, etc. In fact, we didn&#8217;t even make a plan to go anywhere like a zoo or park. So, every morning, we woke up without anything in particular to do. When my wife was in charge, she came up with an idea of where to take our boys (7, 4, and 2) and she loaded them into the minivan. However, when &#8230; <a href="http://playborhood.com/2012/01/no-plans-no-problem/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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