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	<title>Gremlin's Fireside Chat &#187; Children</title>
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		<title>The Force</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Daughter is just four years old (16th Jan) and she has just made me roar with laughter. I have just put her to bed and after reading a story and giving her a hug and kiss I was getting up when she said &#8211; &#8220;Dad &#8230;. Dad &#8230;.. May the force be with you&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How did she do it&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The bright, cheerful bundle of love and joy that is my daughter Maeve surprised me this evening. Some evenings I let my daughter watch videos on my HTC Desire smart-phone and this evening was one of those days. You can imagine my surprise that when I started the usual &#8220;time for you to go to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Haircut</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 19:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This evening my little curly red-headed daughter aged 3 and a half was given a haircut by her mom. Maeve&#8217;s does not really have a big or thick head of red curls yet; But after 3 years some parts have grown longer and faster than others &#8211; mostly down the middle so she looks like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cultural Differences &#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 18:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maeve my three year old daughter must be beginning to understand that all people are not the same (colour, language etc). I have a habit &#8211; good or bad &#8211; of trying to say hello and goodbye in the language of the person I am talking to. Maeve must have pickup up on this and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wisdom of a child</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 21:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My three year old wonderful daughter just made me laugh &#8211; She wanted something of mine which is not suitable for children so I said &#8220;Maeve &#8211; not until you are older&#8221;. &#8220;OK dad&#8221; she said. Five minutes later she came back &#8220;Dad, I&#8217;m older now&#8221;. You cannot fault the logic.
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		<title>Updates and Progress</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 22:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its been four months since my last post ! and not a lot things have happened and a lot of things have changed. Confused? Well its official Ireland is well in the dumpster at the moment &#8211; well what do you expect with a Fianna Fail government and their &#8220;whats in it for me and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Nativity Play</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 19:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maeve&#8217;s creches nativity play was today &#8211; and Maeve had the plum part of &#8220;mary&#8221;. The best I ever got at the Nativity was one of the three kings with the &#8220;Joseph&#8221; part going to my arch Nemesis Paul Russell and as you can tell that after 40 years it still rankles me somewhat. Needless [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Third Party Empathy and Emotional Understanding</title>
		<link>http://www.garyleeson.com/index.php/2010/12/11/third-party-empathy-and-emotional-understanding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2010 15:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its a rather wordy title but accurate in light of events. Maeve and I had a &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; (Cartoon series) evening whilst her mom was out attending her companies Christmas party. We both like the series &#8211; but for different reasons probably &#8211; but I was interested to note Maeve emotional state and reactions to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maeve makes her first meal</title>
		<link>http://www.garyleeson.com/index.php/2010/12/09/maeve-makes-her-first-meal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 14:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I went into the kitchen to find Maeve  buttering up a slice of bread &#8211; something which she does from time to time &#8211; what surprised me was she then opened a container of peanuts and sprinkled some on the buttered bread followed by another slice of bread. Very pleased with herself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tools, English and other progressions</title>
		<link>http://www.garyleeson.com/index.php/2010/10/26/tools-english-and-other-progressions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 20:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I said before Maeve is over the chicken-pox and back in the creche. Her progress never ceases to amaze me &#8211; she now knows phrases such as &#8220;Thats my Favourite&#8221;, &#8220;Daddies iPhone&#8221; (which is wrong since I have a fab HTC desire), &#8220;In five minutes&#8221; (as in &#8220;I will do it in 5 minutes&#8221;) [...]]]></description>
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