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Reading On The Road - On Living By Learning

By livingbylearning 304 days ago from http://www.onlivingbylearning.com

Road trips are a great opportunity to have open-ended discussions about books. If you have the time, and a super-long road trip, consider listening to an audio-book and then talking about your selection.

On a recent road trip, we listened to Animal Farm and talked about questioning authority. This article describes how to

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Top 10 Tips for Deschooling

By livingbylearning 314 days ago from http://justenough.wordpress.com

10 straightforward and practical tips for homeschoolers. Anyone thinking of transitioning to homeschoolinging should read this list. These are also important considerations for experienced homeschoolers.

For example, I'm learning to mind tip #2: "Let go of our grip on fear. Fear is a natural emotion. It tells us things. But if we let it

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Do you trust the Internet? - On Living By Learning

By livingbylearning 316 days ago from http://www.onlivingbylearning.com

A woman, whom I respect and admire, called to ask me to erase her email from my address book. She feared that sharing her email address would make her vulnerable to spam and identity theft. I suspect that she feared my blog would somehow contaminate her email address.

Bloggers are told that they should encourage non-geeks to subscribe t

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On Living By Learning

By livingbylearning 322 days ago from http://onlivingbylearning.com

Spreading joy with Girl Scout cookies should be sufficient reason to participate in the cookie sales program, but there is so much more behind the sweet facade.

Selling cookies, Girl Scouts raise funds for their activities, travel, and service projects. At the same time, they develop important entrepreneurial skills.

This year, Girl Sc

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» Armchair Shopping Hero On Living By Learning

By livingbylearning 339 days ago from http://www.onlivingbylearning.com

How can you maintain your tranquility when Christmas is only five days away?

Save your money and sanity, and be an armchair shopping hero.

Find the hottest games and get them delivered to your home. Couch Potatoes, this one is for you.

Avoid another Screaming Banshee Holiday, and let your fingers do the shopping.

Don't forget, t

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Living By Learning: Learning About Global Literacy

By livingbylearning 346 days ago from http://onlivingbylearning.blogspot.com

Two recent books - Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time and Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children - eloquently describe how determined volunteers are working to make the right to read and learn a global reality, despite the staggering number

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Living By Learning: Crossing the NaNoWrimo Finish Line - Leaping, Limping, and Cheating

By livingbylearning 358 days ago from http://onlivingbylearning.blogspot.com

My kids have both completed NaNoWrimo. The have both succeeded in writing a novel in one month; one leaped, one limped across the finish line. I have just one more day to reach the 50,000 word finish line, and I am cheating across the finish line.

Why am I cheating in NaNoWrimo? To set a good example for my kids?

Okay, it's probably

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Living By Learning: Avoid One-Use Wonders This Holiday Season!

By livingbylearning 363 days ago from http://onlivingbylearning.blogspot.com

This holiday season don't waste your money on "hot" toys for kids that will sit unused after one use. Living By Learning reviews some of the popular toys this season that are sure to be one-use wonders. It also offers a list of holiday gifts that your kids will still be using next year. There are even a few popular items that truly are

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Living By Learning: Learning About Hunger

By livingbylearning 372 days ago from http://onlivingbylearning.blogspot.com

Nearly 40 million Americans live in households that can't afford regular meals. As we get ready to celebrate Thanksgiving, children can learn about hunger and what they can do about it. This article describes what one youth group is doing about hunger in their community and provides a compilation of links so that you can learn more about t

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Living By Learning: Do You See Mommy Cliques?

By livingbylearning 378 days ago from http://onlivingbylearning.blogspot.com

Do mommy cliques exist in your school community? Or, do you just think that Queen Bee Moms and King Pin Dads are running the show? This essay discusses how appearances can be misleading in a school community. Often, it is the parents who have limi

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Living By Learning: Why do I homeschool?

By livingbylearning 379 days ago from http://onlivingbylearning.blogspot.com

This article looks at why one family is choosing to homeschool. In the past, most homeschoolers made this choice for religious reasons. Now, parents are choosing homeschool for educational reasons. Increasingly, parents are choosing to homeschool

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Living By Learning: Living By Learning About Writing

By livingbylearning 383 days ago from http://onlivingbylearning.blogspot.com

Living By Learning About Writing lists books and online resources that can help you improve your writing. It includes books and online resources on writer's reference material, writing, young writers, and writer's websites. Living By Learning is

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