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		<title>COMING SOON – review of a new spelling program</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dan, the creator of Spell Quizzer has authorized me to host a give away of his new program.  YAY for all of you!
Now that school is in full swing, I will be testing the program out on my kids to see how it all works and letting you know all about it.  I am pretty [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parentingandeducation.wordpress.com&blog=3025160&post=120&subd=parentingandeducation&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Back to School – Everything you REALLY need to start school</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting ready to start school again.  Due to some family issues, we actually took the whole summer off this year.  But everybody is ready to go now!
Every time I walk into the local big blue box store (yeah, you know which one I&#8217;m talking about) I am greeted with the huge back to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parentingandeducation.wordpress.com&blog=3025160&post=116&subd=parentingandeducation&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Change in eating habits makes learning environments more effective</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>onecrazykat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just came across an article of a charter school in Wisconsin that recently participated in an experiment.  Central Alternative High School in Appleton, Wisconsin is a charter school for students with behavioral issues.  Like most alternative schools, Central Alternative was plagued with problems.  Then, in 1997 Natural Ovens of Manitowoc, WI [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parentingandeducation.wordpress.com&blog=3025160&post=113&subd=parentingandeducation&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Summer-Time School</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 13:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://parentingandeducation.wordpress.com/?p=110</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Peering out of my rain-lashed window with the cool breeze blowing in through the back door, I wonder how I can call it summer time.  Yet, it is almost June, band is finished for the season, and it is time to start planning for the next round of school projects.
We have had a good [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parentingandeducation.wordpress.com&blog=3025160&post=110&subd=parentingandeducation&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Band season is over.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 20:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>onecrazykat</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://parentingandeducation.wordpress.com/?p=108</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pork Chop has been going to the public school just to attend band classes for the past two years.  The poor guy was a real champ jumping through all the silly little obstacles the public school dished out to him.  But then&#8230;  he REALLY wanted to be in band.  Oh, he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parentingandeducation.wordpress.com&blog=3025160&post=108&subd=parentingandeducation&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Home Schooling How-To’s</title>
		<link>http://parentingandeducation.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/home-schooling-how-tos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 16:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>onecrazykat</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://parentingandeducation.wordpress.com/?p=104</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I can get really frustrated with home schooling.  And it&#8217;s not what you think.  Home schooling itself is easy for me.  I don&#8217;t have problems with teaching or disciplining or creating ideas or projects.  That&#8217;s easy for me.  What I find frustrating is connecting with other families who home [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parentingandeducation.wordpress.com&blog=3025160&post=104&subd=parentingandeducation&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A New Kind of School</title>
		<link>http://parentingandeducation.wordpress.com/2009/03/27/a-new-kind-of-school/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>onecrazykat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My husband and I are about to realize a life-long dream.  Our school is almost ready to open (scheduled for fall 2009 if all goes according to plan).  Yay!  This is a culmination of everything we have been working on since we started training to be teachers.  It&#8217;s a totally different kind of school.
It&#8217;s essentially [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parentingandeducation.wordpress.com&blog=3025160&post=100&subd=parentingandeducation&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Easter Break – catching up on some updates</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>onecrazykat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pork Chop had his solo and ensemble competition last weekend.  He scored 1st place on his clarinet duet, 1st place superior on his Pep ensemble, and 1st place on his clarinet solo.  The only thing they said he really needed to work on was RELAX.  So that&#8217;s a good thing.  I am really proud of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parentingandeducation.wordpress.com&blog=3025160&post=99&subd=parentingandeducation&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A New Direction – The Quest to Find Your Passion</title>
		<link>http://parentingandeducation.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/a-new-direction-the-quest-to-find-your-passion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>onecrazykat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With our move to a more unschooled approach we are encountering some difficulties with our oldest child.  Pork Chop is weeks away from becoming a full blown teenager.  Unlike the other children he has been in and out of public school; and when he was home schooled, it was very structured &#8211; almost like regular [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parentingandeducation.wordpress.com&blog=3025160&post=98&subd=parentingandeducation&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Call to Brilliance</title>
		<link>http://parentingandeducation.wordpress.com/2008/03/15/the-call-to-brilliance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>onecrazykat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My husband and I take education very seriously.  Both trained public school teachers we quit the profession because of some undefined discontent with the system and an inability to affect any change.  Now in a somewhat rocky financial situation, friends, family, and total strangers keep prodding us to return to public school or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parentingandeducation.wordpress.com&blog=3025160&post=97&subd=parentingandeducation&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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