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5 Things I learned I can live without

By Crystal Cha | Published: January 12, 2011

In our consumerist society, we fixate on getting things, and often forget that everything has a limit – there is a limit to how much money, time, and energy we have to spend. Instead of figuring out what else we need to get, it would probably do most of us good to think about what [...]

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Why I Want My Kids To Be Bored In School

By Contributor | Published: August 1, 2010
leaping free

When I was a young child there was a chart on our freezer. It looked a lot like a Shoots-n-Ladders board and had magnets shaped like cars. The idea was that for each pre-reading or reading step completed the child would get to move a car forward a space. Sadly for the children, there were [...]

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