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		<title>Making Jabba the Hut Body Pillows and Finding Mental Balance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just read a blog post in which the author talked about how homeschooling is a lifestyle &#8211; it&#8217;s not a curriculum or set of courses; it&#8217;s your whole life experience. That has definitely proven true for me. I love exploring and learning with my kids, and though I had to alter some of my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gwynridenhour.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13989418&amp;post=1016&amp;subd=gwynridenhour&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Nurture Children&#8217;s Creativity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week at Career Day, one of the 6th grade participants turned a question to me. She said that after going to both of my kids&#8217; tables, it was clear to her that I was raising a couple of prodigies. How, she asked, did I as a parent know to nurture these gifts? This girl [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gwynridenhour.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13989418&amp;post=1006&amp;subd=gwynridenhour&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kids Video-Conferencing and More: Two Days and 12 Public Speaking Engagements, Day 2.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey! Welcome back for the report on Day 2 of the two-day public speaking frenzy for Ian and Eva. Day one was all about sharing passions in 15 minute presentations. During day two, Eva explored more in depth sharing. Let&#8217;s jump to it, shall we? Friday: Video-Conference with Sweetwater Elementary in Devils Lake, ND Thanks to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gwynridenhour.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13989418&amp;post=987&amp;subd=gwynridenhour&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two Days and 12 Public Speaking Engagements (and I Wasn&#8217;t the Speaker). Day 1.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last two days, Eva and Ian have been quite busy talking to students about following their passions. It&#8217;s been a wonderful experience, sharing dreams, meeting people, and honing public speaking skills. In this post, I&#8217;m going to report on Day 1. But the two days were so different from each other; I hope [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gwynridenhour.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13989418&amp;post=956&amp;subd=gwynridenhour&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rube Goldberg, Falling Pendulum, Take One Zillion</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know you&#8217;ve been dying to know how our falling pendulum project is going. Well, cats and kittens, I&#8217;m happy to report we worked on it all morning yesterday and called it success. First off, as discussed, we cut a new board and replaced the sweepy piece. The cool bit about the new straight zigzag [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gwynridenhour.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13989418&amp;post=943&amp;subd=gwynridenhour&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a several weeks of blogging frenzy on my part, I had to take a breather over the last few days and get my head back into my present-day at home. It&#8217;s been a nice week of pursuing projects and assignments, of tending to our immediate needs and looking forward to the next couple of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gwynridenhour.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13989418&amp;post=931&amp;subd=gwynridenhour&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you may remember, the kids and I are spending a large chunk of our school year building a Rube Goldberg machine. For those of you just joining us, I&#8217;ll give you the nutshell story so far (you can also click on the Rube Goldberg category at the end of this post, and it should [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gwynridenhour.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13989418&amp;post=903&amp;subd=gwynridenhour&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Let My Kids Have an Internet Presence</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Education and technology &#8211; it seems everywhere I look folks are talking about it. Should we do more, less? What about virtual schools? Interactive white boards? Cell phones? Facebook and Twitter? Should we let kids be out there on the &#8216;net? Should we post their pictures? Won&#8217;t they be kidnapped?? These are legitimate conversations, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gwynridenhour.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13989418&amp;post=880&amp;subd=gwynridenhour&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Altering the School Schedule to Meet Changing Needs</title>
		<link>http://gwynridenhour.wordpress.com/2012/02/03/altering-the-school-schedule-to-meet-changing-needs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the joys of home education is being in charge of your own reality. If something isn&#8217;t working &#8211; an approach, a text, the schedule &#8211; it&#8217;s my job to change it. We do this all the time, tweaking here and there, dropping something to pick up something else. Spring is coming, no matter [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gwynridenhour.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13989418&amp;post=873&amp;subd=gwynridenhour&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I woke up and felt deep down that the normal school day wasn&#8217;t meant to be. So I declared Creativity Day! And there was much rejoicing. I do this from time to time, especially when our hearts are committed to particular projects. Yesterday&#8217;s was a justified proclamation; the kids and I all have projects [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gwynridenhour.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13989418&amp;post=861&amp;subd=gwynridenhour&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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