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	<description>For those who live to loaf</description>
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		<title>Idling class moved to 28th September; now on idle parenting</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 10:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Hodgkinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had to move the first idling class of term to 28th September. Apologies to those who were looking forward to the Dr Johnson class next week. And my idling class will now be called &#8216;How to be an Idle Parent&#8217;, as this is a topic that has been requested by many readers and customers. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Less in Two Thousand and Ten</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Hodgkinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is my latest &#8220;idle parent&#8221; column for the Daily Telegraph. TH BACK TO SCHOOL, BACK TO WORK, back to the fields. In the old medieval calendar, Plough Monday, which was the first Monday after the Feast of the Epiphany or Twelfth Night, marked the end of the Christmas holidays. Those lucky medievals had enjoyed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>End Hard Work Now!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Hodgkinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[12 December 2008 NOW IS THE season to make resolutions and my advice is: don’t! Of all the depressing and spirit-sapping inventions of the Puritan Revolution, this idea of making resolutions to behave better in the future is one of the most futile and absurd. The usual one is “work harder”. Well, what a nonsense! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Think out of the box</title>
		<link>http://idler.co.uk/idleparent/think-out-of-the-box/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It may seem odd for an idle parent to recommend banning telly. &#8220;Free baby-sitting&#8221; is how the TV is often described by harried parents. You can sit the little ones in front of the screen and let them gape for an hour or two while you get on with those important jobs, such as cleaning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A doze a day keeps woes away</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a simple remedy for the exhausting hardships that life can throw at the idle parent. It&#8217;s not advertised on the television or in the papers, because it costs nothing and therefore no one makes money out of it. But indulging in it will without doubt improve your quality of life. I&#8217;m talking, of course, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let the Family Go Barefoot</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in the Telegraph. For syndication enquiries, please contact the Telegraph Syndication department. I&#8217;ve often thought that the life of an idle parent would be immeasurably improved if socks didn&#8217;t exist. Socks sow discord and spread consternation. Every family has sock problems. &#8220;Where are my socks? How come I never have any socks?&#8221; asks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why animals are a great friend to the idle parent</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Why have you got all these animals?&#8221; asks my mother when she visits our farm. For some inexplicable reason, she is not a fan of chickens wandering in the kitchen, dogs jumping up at her or cats on the sofa. &#8220;You can&#8217;t cope with your children,&#8221; she says. &#8220;Why add extra burdens?&#8221; We have 16 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buddha can you spare a paradigm</title>
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		<comments>http://idler.co.uk/idleparent/buddha-can-you-spare-a-paradigm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in the Telegraph. For syndication enquiries, please contact the Telegraph Syndication department. I hope you&#8217;ll forgive me a moment of idle parent smugness. But I think this story helps to prove that a life of pleasure can continue alongside child-rearing. I recently found myself at Castle Cary station in Somerset with three children [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Games We Invented</title>
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		<comments>http://idler.co.uk/idleparent/games-we-invented/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Idle Parent]]></category>

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		<title>Idle Parent Gallery</title>
		<link>http://idler.co.uk/idleparent/idle-parent-gallery/</link>
		<comments>http://idler.co.uk/idleparent/idle-parent-gallery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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