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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we asked in regard to loyalty &#8211; What if some one was being mean to another student?  What would you do?  Virtually all students said they would ask them to stop, take the target away from the mean person or tell a teacher.  Unfortunately research shows that not to be true.  Most children will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making the Break</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:16:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a great photo of a student who is testing for his yellow belt making a great board break.  This part of the test is not about just the physical ability and technique &#8211; but more about breaking through the fear one person may have in anything that they may have ahead of them. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James K. is Supporting Childhood Cancer Research</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:25:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Balanced Life Skills student is a HERO one more time.  Jimmy K. is supporting childhood cancer research by agreeing to have his hair shaved on March 11.  It would be great to support him and St. Baldricks for this good work.  This is the second time that Jimmy has participated in this event.  It is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life Skills: Loyalty to our Community</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Van Deuren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we asked an interesting question to our students about loyalty in the classroom and their schools.  What if you saw someone writing in a library book or on the walls in your school?  What would you do?  The comments went from telling them to stop it, asking them to stop and then be more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life Skills: Loyalty in the Family</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Van Deuren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We first learn about loyalty from our family.  Our family is the closest relationships we will ever have, and so we can understand that if there is a breakdown in the relationships, a break of loyalty, that we can be affected for a very long time &#8211; not knowing who we can trust.  Our children [...]]]></description>
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		<title>100 Day Challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have started a 100 Day Challenge.  This challenge is to get me focused on some very bold and innovative projects as well as making improvements in my own training.  If you would like to follow what I do over the next 100 days here is the link to Mr. Joe&#8217;s 100 Day Challenge.]]></description>
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		<title>Life Skills: Loyalty &#8211; How To Be Loyal To Our Values</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Life Skills: Loyalty &#8211; The Definition</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Van Deuren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each month we define and discuss a word of character development and life skill with all of our students. This month the word is Loyalty and will be defined this way. Young students: Loyalty means: “I am true to my friends, family and school” Older students: Loyalty means: Faithful and committed to a person, place, group [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fast Food: Should We or Our Children EVER Eat This?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Van Deuren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This photo and comment is from a  friend of mine that I believe says a great deal about what we eat and allow our children to eat. What does this picture tell you? My doctor has had this &#8220;processed food&#8221; on her counter ever since 2010 and 2011 respectively. I asked her why she had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eating Healthy in the New Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Van Deuren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Want to eat more healthy?  Try some of these suggestions of things to eliminate from your diet or at least severely reduce to almost never eating. &#160; 1. Soda &#8211; yes that includes &#8220;diet&#8221; soda too.  Too much sugar and chemicals.  Artificial sweeteners are chemicals too that still fakes your body into releasing insulin [...]]]></description>
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