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		<title>Fun Stuff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Need ideas of fun things to do with your kids? Here are a few suggestions.
Experiments
 Try freezing different things
Does a mitten freeze as well as an orange?
What is the difference between those two frozen objects?
Can you freeze a stone? How about dirt?
Collect seeds from fruits and put in a pot
Watch what happens with time and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fafutoys.com/blog/2010/08/16/fun-stuff-2/</link>
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		<title>Bring On the Learning Revolution!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Roughly one month ago, I wrote a post about empowering our kids to nurture their talents. In that post I wrote about how our educational system is mass producing workers instead of helping the kids find their inner passions and ambitions for life. Last night, as I was doing my TED round of the week, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fafutoys.com/blog/2010/07/27/bring-on-the-learning-revolution/</link>
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		<title>Adventures</title>
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The other day I visited a friend who&#8217;s son had just turned five. As I couldn&#8217;t make it to his birthday party, she started telling me about his high expectations for birthday presents. His list of preferences included a Phoenix who cries magic tears, a magic wand, a cape that makes you invisible, and a silver [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fafutoys.com/blog/2010/07/14/adventures/</link>
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		<title>Dancing Like Nobody&#8217;s Watching</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dancing Like Nobody‘s Watching
I love to dance. I mean, who doesn‘t? It‘s such a great way of releasing energy but getting filled with new energy. It‘s a way of expressing emotions and getting filled with emotions. It‘s an art form and exercise at the same time.
It always amazes me how shy some people are to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fafutoys.com/blog/2010/06/30/dancing-like-nobodys-watching/</link>
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		<title>Empowering Kids to Nurture Their Talents</title>
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My son recently turned six and is starting school next fall. After visiting his school and talking to other parents about their kids schools, I have formed a strong opinion about the school system.
The Production of Workers 
Today&#8217;s school system is built on the old idea that you need to program kids to become teachers, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fafutoys.com/blog/2010/06/23/203/</link>
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		<title>Boxing Up Babies &#8211; Methods Destroying Tomorrows Society?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My younger son turned 6 a few months ago. He takes after his parents and is a bit rough around the edges and not easely boxable. He loves to challenge him self and others, change the rules and experience life. Because of all this he has gotten extra attention this winter from school staff and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fafutoys.com/blog/2010/06/22/boxing-up-babies-methods-destroying-tomorrows-society/</link>
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		<title>Inspired Development :)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are always throwing around new ideas and working on product development. Making inventive toys is challenging and fun at the same time. We need to combine theories of children&#8217;s development, environmental ideology and our fundamental elements, surprise, humor and challenge. How can we do better and where do we start?
We have a happy industrial designer, Adalheidur Thorolfsdottir, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fafutoys.com/blog/2010/05/19/inspiried-development/</link>
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		<title>World Fair Trade Day Recap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These are busy times at fafu.
Last Saturday was World Fair Trade Day, which we celebrated downtown Reykjavik with a lot of happy drummers and passers-by. The whole summer will be filled with events to raise awareness about Fair Trade in Iceland, so for those of you who live in Iceland, check out our Facebook page [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fafutoys.com/blog/2010/05/10/world-fair-trade-day-recap/</link>
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		<title>2010 World Fair Trade day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Next Saturday, May 8th, will be the 2010 World Fair Trade day.

Iceland is sadly not doing as well as it could in fair trading. Certified products are avalible in few stores and companies using fair trade for production are very few.

But what does that mean? That we can only do better!

WFT day 2010 in Reykjavik is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fafutoys.com/blog/2010/05/05/2010-world-fair-trade-day/</link>
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		<title>Earth Weekend 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend, I had high expectations for myself as last week was Earth Day 2010. As life goes, plans changed so I didn´t manage to to half of the things I wanted to. My son and I took our bikes and headed down to the grocery store to buy the necessities for the home. When [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fafutoys.com/blog/2010/04/30/156/</link>
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