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	<description>Managing your babysitting co-op just got easier</description>
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		<title>Top 10 baby names</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For boys

William
Jack
Lachlan
Cooper
Thomas
Joshua
Oliver
Noah
Riley
Ethan

For girls

Isabella
Chloe
Charlotte
Mia
Oliva
Emily
Ella
Sienna
Sophie
Amelia

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		<link>http://blog.babysittinggroup.com/2010/01/top-10-baby-names/</link>
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		<title>Michigan trys to ban babysitting co-op&#8217;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently Michigan tried to stop a mother from babysitting for her neighbors by enforcing a state law that prevents you from providing more than four weeks babysitting each calendar year unless your a licensed day-care provider. The mother wasn&#8217;t being paid to provide babysitting and the parents often exchanged babysitting at night. If you&#8217;re in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.babysittinggroup.com/2009/10/michigan-trys-to-ban-babysitting-co-ops/</link>
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		<title>Is it time to re-issue your tokens?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If your co-op is using tokens to keep track of babysitting then it might be time to re-issue them. Over time tokens are lost and you might find there are less in circulation than you expect. When the number of tokens in circulation falls too low the co-op will enter a recession.
To work out if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.babysittinggroup.com/2009/08/is-it-time-to-re-issue-your-tokens/</link>
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		<title>Stories from the front line</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are two posts I recently came across from parents who have just hosted their babysitting co-op. Sounds like a great time was had by all.
Free babysitting&#8230;well, sort of
Babysitting Co Op &#38; best husband in the World
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		<link>http://blog.babysittinggroup.com/2009/08/stories-from-the-front-line/</link>
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		<title>Moving the blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I get closer to launching the main site and application I&#8217;ve decided to move the blog to it&#8217;s own site. Effectively immediately you&#8217;ll find this blog at http://blog.babysittinggroup.com/
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		<link>http://blog.babysittinggroup.com/2009/08/moving-the-blog/</link>
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		<title>Starting a babysitting co-op</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve already made a number of posts about starting a babysitting co-op. Recently I stubmled upon an article by Debbie Simmonds which adds a few additional items to consider.

Size of the group
Membership requirements
Guidelines for handling emergencies
Sick children
Late pickups

If you have any other suggestions for starting a co-op then let me know. I&#8217;ll try to incorporate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.babysittinggroup.com/2009/08/starting-a-babysitting-co-op/</link>
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		<title>Stroller group to babysitting co-op</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not all  babysitting co-op&#8217;s start out as something you plan. I found an article on NWAnews.com about a mall stroller group which is also an unofficial babysitting co-op. It just shows that co-op&#8217;s can grow naturally out of the people you already know.
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		<link>http://blog.babysittinggroup.com/2009/07/stroller-group-to-babysitting-co-op/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s about the children too</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most parents think about babysitting co-ops from their point of view (cheap babysitting). While reading this post I was reminded of something my aunt once told me about how all of the children in their co-op were friends and continued to be friends long after they were old enough to look after themselves.
Even if you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.babysittinggroup.com/2009/07/its-about-the-children-too/</link>
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		<title>About me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some readers of this site may be wondering who I am and why I decided to create BabysittingGroup.com.
So who am I? My name is Rich and I live in Sydney, Australia. For the last 13 years I&#8217;ve been developing web applications for other people. While I still have a day job working for someone else [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.babysittinggroup.com/2009/05/about-me/</link>
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		<title>Roster co-op model</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So far I&#8217;ve only written about babysitting co-op&#8217;s using a points model but this isn&#8217;t the only model available. If you have a smaller group, 3-5 families, then there is an alternate co-op model that uses a roster instead of points.
Everyone in the co-op agrees on a day/time that babysitting is provided. For example, Friday [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.babysittinggroup.com/2009/05/roster-co-op-model/</link>
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