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		<title>Relationship advice to give smart girls</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a confession.  I really don&#8217;t know how to raise smart teenaged girls. I have been filled with no small amount of anxiety over my daughters&#8217; future fates &#8211; the burning questions I have is:  Will my daughters find &#8230; <a href="http://raisingsmartgirls.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/relationship-advice-to-give-smart-girls/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raisingsmartgirls.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3187728&amp;post=5482&amp;subd=raisingsmartgirls&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What I&#8217;ve learned &#8211; Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(For part I &#8211; please see this post &#8211; What I&#8217;ve learned-Part I) I must say, resourceful or not, motherhood knocked me on my ass. I can look back now with compassion for myself. Due to my own very difficult &#8230; <a href="http://raisingsmartgirls.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/what-ive-learned-part-ii/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raisingsmartgirls.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3187728&amp;post=5462&amp;subd=raisingsmartgirls&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What I&#8217;ve learned &#8211; Part I</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Due to an obnoxiously long word count, I decided to make this a two-parter] When I started this job almost 10 years ago, I was extremely unprepared for mothering. I&#8217;d like you talk about my own mother for a moment, &#8230; <a href="http://raisingsmartgirls.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/what-ive-learned/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raisingsmartgirls.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3187728&amp;post=5453&amp;subd=raisingsmartgirls&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An interview with author Susan Casey on Kids Inventing!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was contacted not to long ago by the Provato marketing firm that an author was interested in being interviewed for the Raising Smart Girls blog.  I was both honored and very, very pleased when I found out about what &#8230; <a href="http://raisingsmartgirls.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/an-interview-with-author-susan-casey-on-kids-inventing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raisingsmartgirls.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3187728&amp;post=5443&amp;subd=raisingsmartgirls&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Surprise&#8230;we have an interview&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://raisingsmartgirls.wordpress.com/2011/10/28/surprise-we-have-an-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just have to thank all of you  who may have thought of us and wished us well in that last post. A week after posting, Mr. RSG got contacted from a recruiter who had seen his resume on Monster.com.  &#8230; <a href="http://raisingsmartgirls.wordpress.com/2011/10/28/surprise-we-have-an-interview/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raisingsmartgirls.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3187728&amp;post=5437&amp;subd=raisingsmartgirls&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Joblessness woes &#8211; in which I start freaking out</title>
		<link>http://raisingsmartgirls.wordpress.com/2011/10/16/joblessness-woes-in-which-i-start-freaking-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 15:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have been bitten by the jobless bug over here in the RSG household. Mr. RSG was laid off from his panic attack-inducing job as a mechanical engineer last October.  His severance was pretty decent:  8  weeks pay plus his &#8230; <a href="http://raisingsmartgirls.wordpress.com/2011/10/16/joblessness-woes-in-which-i-start-freaking-out/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raisingsmartgirls.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3187728&amp;post=5428&amp;subd=raisingsmartgirls&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s okay to be weird &#8211; raising independent thinkers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two of my daughters have come to me in recent weeks in tears telling me that they are upset because &#8220;I&#8217;m weird, mommy.&#8221; I would ask them, &#8220;why are you weird?&#8221; And they would reply, &#8220;I am weird because&#8230;&#8221; and &#8230; <a href="http://raisingsmartgirls.wordpress.com/2011/10/05/its-okay-to-be-weird-raising-independent-thinkers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raisingsmartgirls.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3187728&amp;post=5407&amp;subd=raisingsmartgirls&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blast from the past&#8230;and gifted chat</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 00:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since the Borders closed down, I&#8217;ve been spending more time at the library.  I am now officially glad I am. Today, I ran into an old friend of mine, someone I dated and worked with almost 20 years ago.  &#8230; <a href="http://raisingsmartgirls.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/blast-from-the-past-and-gifted-chat/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raisingsmartgirls.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3187728&amp;post=5391&amp;subd=raisingsmartgirls&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part and parcel with my middle daughter&#8217;s high sensitivity comes emotional storms, great highs and devastating lows. I have always worried about this child, most often because she&#8217;s a lot like me. Like me,  she intelligently (and sometimes frustratingly) questions &#8230; <a href="http://raisingsmartgirls.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/how-to-help-our-kids-with-depression-and-sadness/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raisingsmartgirls.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3187728&amp;post=5381&amp;subd=raisingsmartgirls&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Research project on raising gifted children.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished participating in an online research survey project from a clinical psychology Ph.D student in Australia who is conducting research on what it&#8217;s like to be a parent with one or more gifted children.  I thought I&#8217;d pass &#8230; <a href="http://raisingsmartgirls.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/research-project-on-raising-gifted-children/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raisingsmartgirls.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3187728&amp;post=5362&amp;subd=raisingsmartgirls&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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