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		<title>Friday Freewrite: Up, Up, and Away!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image by Jesse Millan If you soared over your neighborhood or town, what would you see? New to freewriting? Check out our online guide.]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s do some math</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are 180 days in the school year. There are 36 weeks. You have X number of children at writing age. If you were to do one passage of copywork per week per child, you would have this equation: 36 x X = ______ So if you have 3 children at writing age, the answer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love who you are</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you noticed how easy it is to wish away your chief personality features? Do you think to yourself, &#8220;I&#8217;m the wrong personality for my temperament&#8221;? You might wish for a clean, orderly home in your heart, but your personality style is relaxed Bohemian. Or you are the sort who keeps a ship-shape house, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What are they doing now: Jacob</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 04:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems the right time to do this expose on Jake as I just got off of Skype with him while he sits in Berlin with his younger brother. He shared some incredible news that I&#8217;ll save for the end of this post. Jacob is our middle child. He came into our lives, the easiest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An apologetic for teatime</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We joke that poetry teatimes are the &#8216;gateway drug&#8217; to Brave Writer. They&#8217;re the lure, the enticement, the shiznits of all we&#8217;re about. And they&#8217;re free—no product purchase necessary. You can read the details of *how* to hold a poetry teatime here. But let&#8217;s look at why it works and what it does in your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How you say it is everything</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I speak at conferences, I like to talk about how to gain the goodwill of your children as you embark on the revision process. Here&#8217;s a snippet of what I share. Remember when you went into labor (or if you adopted kids, remember the stories your mother and friends have told you)? Usually there&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Freewrite: Gossip</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image by zalouk webdesign Has anyone ever talked about you behind your back? Or have you done that to someone else? Write about it. New to freewriting? Check out our online guide.]]></description>
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		<title>Pick one thing</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image by andrechinn You can&#8217;t do ten things, and your homeschool won&#8217;t transform itself over night. What you want and what creates momentum is a series of deliberate, prepared choices that lead to a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction. You get there one thing at a time. Pick the subject, practice, habit, or attitude you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What are they doing now: Liam</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 04:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeannette Frantz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s featured Bogart is Liam! He&#8217;s my 18 yos, 4th child. Liam read the earliest of any of the five kids (age 6). I found out he knew how to read when he came into the bedroom one night and spelled, &#8220;Gap: g-a-p.&#8221; Apparently the source of this amazing revelation was the Gap shopping bag [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tuesday Teatime: Daffodils</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jeannette Frantz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Julie, Thank you for the inspiration to take our teatime to another level. My son was so keen on the idea that he baked scones for our first poetry tea, cut and arranged fresh flowers for the table, and even made up his own poetry during the session. Needless to say, I was a [...]]]></description>
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