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		<title>What to Expect When You&#8217;re Expecting to be a Teenager</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 05:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barmy Rootstock (IBMP)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What we have: What I wish we had: Dad, I don’t want to be thirteen. Why not? I don’t want to be a teenager. Really? I thought that’s what tweens looked forward to. I’m scared. Oh. Well, why are you scared? Cause teenagers have bad judgment and do bad things. I don’t want to be [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ivebecomemyparents.com&#038;blog=21113888&#038;post=2841&#038;subd=ivebecomemydad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 09:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barmy Rootstock (IBMP)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wonder if it’s too late to have The Talk with my dad. We never really did have that talk, and I know he’s had sex at least 3 times, so it could be interesting to get his perspective on it all. I only say this, because when I was your age, son, I never [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ivebecomemyparents.com&#038;blog=21113888&#038;post=2831&#038;subd=ivebecomemydad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Making sense of terrible tween logic</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 07:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barmy Rootstock (IBMP)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Son, you have the best parents ever. All the other parents are just mumbling under their breath, “I can’t wait until Billy has kids of his own, then he’ll understand. Then it’ll be payback time!” I, on the other hand, am giving you the tools you’ll need to make sense of your Terrible Tween and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ivebecomemyparents.com&#038;blog=21113888&#038;post=2816&#038;subd=ivebecomemydad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Please dad, I promise I won&#8217;t run over any hookers</title>
		<link>http://ivebecomemyparents.com/2013/03/21/please-dad-i-promise-i-wont-run-over-any-hookers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 23:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barmy Rootstock (IBMP)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You started by crashing your Hot Wheels but that wasn’t enough. You discovered Minecraft and quickly realized that you could build entire cities out of TNT and blow them up. That was cool, but just not the same as crashing cars. You discovered cheesy car crash games for your iPod and had to download every [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ivebecomemyparents.com&#038;blog=21113888&#038;post=2803&#038;subd=ivebecomemydad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When did dances get this complicated?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 06:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barmy Rootstock (IBMP)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s great to be back! If you’ve just joined us (thank you, by the way), the Editor in Chief, Executive Editor, Head Writer, Creative Director, Best Boy and the entire Pencil Sharpening Team here at IBMP took a break from the Interwebs for a few weeks. Upon returning, I was pleased to see the universe [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ivebecomemyparents.com&#038;blog=21113888&#038;post=2789&#038;subd=ivebecomemydad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>While I&#8217;m away: a puberty post from the past</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barmy Rootstock (IBMP)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; Hello, and thank you for contacting I&#8217;ve Become My Parents. We are not available to write a post right now. Your post-reading is important to us. Please stay on the blog and a post will be with you just as soon as one becomes available&#8230;. Ding chucka chucka ding dingity ding thwapata bing thwapata [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ivebecomemyparents.com&#038;blog=21113888&#038;post=2780&#038;subd=ivebecomemydad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Human anatomy, the dessert stomach and yaks. Trust me, it&#8217;ll make sense when you read it.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 07:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barmy Rootstock (IBMP)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DINNER  n. -  the smallest amount of food that must be eaten in order to qualify for dessert. I’m sorry, son, but dinner is a necessary evil if you want dessert. It&#8217;s like suffering through Aunt Hattie’s lipstick-kiss before you can open the gift she brought you. Or bathing. Although both of those things only [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ivebecomemyparents.com&#038;blog=21113888&#038;post=2767&#038;subd=ivebecomemydad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One-liners from the Twittersphere: funny tweets I couldn&#8217;t let die</title>
		<link>http://ivebecomemyparents.com/2013/01/29/one-liners-from-the-twittersphere-funny-tweets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barmy Rootstock (IBMP)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Those of you that have been kicking around this place for awhile know that I also waste my time over on Twitter. Twitter started as a way to tell the world what you had for breakfast or what coffee shop you&#8217;re sitting in, and other really important stuff like that. Some people still use [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ivebecomemyparents.com&#038;blog=21113888&#038;post=2722&#038;subd=ivebecomemydad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>How Disney made me a liar</title>
		<link>http://ivebecomemyparents.com/2013/01/18/how-disney-made-me-a-liar/</link>
		<comments>http://ivebecomemyparents.com/2013/01/18/how-disney-made-me-a-liar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 21:24:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barmy Rootstock (IBMP)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The floor under the seats of the local movie theater where I grew up was really quite remarkable. Decades of non-diet soda coated the concrete with a thick layer of sweet syrup. It was like flypaper that caught only popcorn and blobs of gum.  I know this because I spent a lot of time under [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ivebecomemyparents.com&#038;blog=21113888&#038;post=2702&#038;subd=ivebecomemydad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Because I said so</title>
		<link>http://ivebecomemyparents.com/2013/01/08/because-i-said-so/</link>
		<comments>http://ivebecomemyparents.com/2013/01/08/because-i-said-so/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barmy Rootstock (IBMP)</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ivebecomemyparents.com/?p=2678</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Son, you used to use the word “why” constantly: “Why is the sky blue?” “Why do dogs lick their weewees?” “Why are you sleeping on the couch again?” You had an insatiable curiosity. Now, “Why?” is reserved for use only after I ask you to do something. For example: “Cheeky, please clean your room,” “Why?” [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ivebecomemyparents.com&#038;blog=21113888&#038;post=2678&#038;subd=ivebecomemydad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>35</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Why I may never pass on my parental wisdom</title>
		<link>http://ivebecomemyparents.com/2012/12/29/why-i-may-not-pass-on-parental-wisdom/</link>
		<comments>http://ivebecomemyparents.com/2012/12/29/why-i-may-not-pass-on-parental-wisdom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2012 20:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barmy Rootstock (IBMP)</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cartoons]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Son, if you’re going to grow up to be just like me, then you’re destined to be a cynic.  You’ll question every motive, assume all facts are suspect until proven otherwise, and treat all salesmen like all they really want is to separate you from your money (Actually, the last one’s not cynicism, that’s just [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ivebecomemyparents.com&#038;blog=21113888&#038;post=2665&#038;subd=ivebecomemydad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>A monopoly on giving</title>
		<link>http://ivebecomemyparents.com/2012/12/17/a-monopoly-on-giving/</link>
		<comments>http://ivebecomemyparents.com/2012/12/17/a-monopoly-on-giving/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 23:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barmy Rootstock (IBMP)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Son, if you want stuff for Channukah, you’ve got to get rid of some of the things you don’t use anymore. But I use everything. Everything? Yeah, everything. This busted baby toy? You mean to tell me you use this? I was just about to. And this thing? It goes with my Chutes and Ladders [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ivebecomemyparents.com&#038;blog=21113888&#038;post=2628&#038;subd=ivebecomemydad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Someday it&#8217;ll be worth something</title>
		<link>http://ivebecomemyparents.com/2012/12/10/someday-itll-be-worth-something/</link>
		<comments>http://ivebecomemyparents.com/2012/12/10/someday-itll-be-worth-something/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 08:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barmy Rootstock (IBMP)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Me: Hey son, welcome home! Mom and I just worked our butts off to make you your favorite dinner! Tadaaaa!—it’s home-made mac and cheese with turkey chili! You: Oh. Me: Oh? Whadya mean, “oh”? You:  I hate home-made mac and cheese, and last time I ate your turkey chili I almost threw up all over [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ivebecomemyparents.com&#038;blog=21113888&#038;post=2598&#038;subd=ivebecomemydad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>What it means when a girl punches you in the face</title>
		<link>http://ivebecomemyparents.com/2012/11/30/when-a-girl-punches-you/</link>
		<comments>http://ivebecomemyparents.com/2012/11/30/when-a-girl-punches-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:26:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barmy Rootstock (IBMP)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, listen up, son. We don’t have a lot of time to deal with this. Your testicles are dangerously close to injecting copious amounts of testosterone into your blood stream and you’ve unfortunately got the girl sense that I had at your age. Which is to say you have none at all. Once that chemical gets [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ivebecomemyparents.com&#038;blog=21113888&#038;post=2570&#038;subd=ivebecomemydad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Keeping your kids safe on Black Friday</title>
		<link>http://ivebecomemyparents.com/2012/11/23/keeping-your-kids-safe-on-black-friday/</link>
		<comments>http://ivebecomemyparents.com/2012/11/23/keeping-your-kids-safe-on-black-friday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2012 08:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barmy Rootstock (IBMP)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Black Friday! I hope those that do Thanksgiving enjoyed it and had much to be thankful for. Since it&#8217;s a holiday weekend for many IBMP readers, I thought I&#8217;d keep it simple today and give you a new cartoon in honor of Black Friday&#8211;the holiday that manages, in one day, to achieve a level [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ivebecomemyparents.com&#038;blog=21113888&#038;post=2487&#038;subd=ivebecomemydad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BREAKING: Grim Reaper announces sweeping changes to Hell-bound transport system</title>
		<link>http://ivebecomemyparents.com/2012/11/19/breaking-grim-reaper-announces-sweeping-changes-to-hell-bound-transport-system/</link>
		<comments>http://ivebecomemyparents.com/2012/11/19/breaking-grim-reaper-announces-sweeping-changes-to-hell-bound-transport-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barmy Rootstock (IBMP)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of the I&#8217;ve Become My Parents book project, I&#8217;ve been going back and creating cartoons for older posts.  I was working on this cartoon for one of my earliest posts, called Hell in a Handbasket, and started thinking about what might happen if the impact of the global economic crisis were to extend as far [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ivebecomemyparents.com&#038;blog=21113888&#038;post=2479&#038;subd=ivebecomemydad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In case you missed yesterday&#8217;s cartoon</title>
		<link>http://ivebecomemyparents.com/2012/11/15/in-case-you-missed-yesterdays-cartoon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 19:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barmy Rootstock (IBMP)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Girls: the only thing keeping boys from thinking they know everything. Happy Thursday! Yesterday, I guest posted over at Sex, Lies and Bacon. Many of you popped over there. For those that may not have, I thought I&#8217;d post the cartoon here today. It sums up my grasp of the female psyche when I was a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ivebecomemyparents.com&#038;blog=21113888&#038;post=2470&#038;subd=ivebecomemydad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brand-new cartoon and a fave post from the past featured on Sex, Lies and Bacon!</title>
		<link>http://ivebecomemyparents.com/2012/11/14/brand-new-cartoon-and-a-fave-post-from-the-past-featured-on-sex-lies-and-bacon/</link>
		<comments>http://ivebecomemyparents.com/2012/11/14/brand-new-cartoon-and-a-fave-post-from-the-past-featured-on-sex-lies-and-bacon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barmy Rootstock (IBMP)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I&#8217;ve Become My Parents is being featured over at Super Single Mom Melysa Shmitt&#8217;s digs: Sex, Lies and Bacon! To mark the occasion, I did a brand-new cartoon that, quite frankly, sums up what my teen dating life was like&#8211;and so does the post, one of my favorites from the early days of IBMP. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ivebecomemyparents.com&#038;blog=21113888&#038;post=2466&#038;subd=ivebecomemydad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unlocking the mysteries of your child&#8217;s brain</title>
		<link>http://ivebecomemyparents.com/2012/11/09/unlocking-the-mysteries-of-your-childs-brain/</link>
		<comments>http://ivebecomemyparents.com/2012/11/09/unlocking-the-mysteries-of-your-childs-brain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2012 07:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barmy Rootstock (IBMP)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last post, I took on Isaac Newton and his questionable grasp of physics. This time, it’s brain science. Why? It’s my job: I’m a blogger. That, and it makes me look smart. My son is now of the age where he has discovered that Dad isn’t the all-knowing source of endless wisdom he thought I was. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ivebecomemyparents.com&#038;blog=21113888&#038;post=2459&#038;subd=ivebecomemydad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Parenting: proof that Isaac Newton knew nothing about physics</title>
		<link>http://ivebecomemyparents.com/2012/11/03/parenting-proof-that-isaac-newton-knew-nothing-about-physics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2012 19:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barmy Rootstock (IBMP)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been a while since my last physics class but I remember learning about this guy named Isaac Newton. An apple once hit him on the head and he suddenly realized that if you let go of something, it will fall. It was a big deal because, before that, I guess nobody had noticed. Smart [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ivebecomemyparents.com&#038;blog=21113888&#038;post=2454&#038;subd=ivebecomemydad&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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