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I would love more friends to keep me accountable for exercising every day and staying away from my no-no foods. :)

I would love to give and receive as much support as possible. Feel free to add me!

Sounds delicious and filling, but I do not have much time to prepare breakfast in the morning. My 1-year-old daughter, who is up at clockwork at 6am, eats her breakfast within 10 minutes and immediately wants to play or sit on my lap. Then I have to get the kids ready to go to daycare. But, thanks anyway!

I don't have any ready answers for how to transform the public American education system, just the very beginnings of an approach. I do know that NCLB needs to go. My mother, who teaches 1st grade in an urban school district, and my father, who teaches high school English and German in a rural school district, despise it…

My point is that we need to focus on all children in our community, not just on our own. Especially those children who are economically disadvantaged, from broken homes, whose parents are uninvolved, who are "outside the norm" in some way. By making our public schools better (because not every child can go to private…

As I was reading these posts and reflecting on the entire home school vs. private school vs. public school debate, I was struck (not for the first time) by the emphasis on the individual, not on the entire community, in many of the posts. This emphasis is, of course, endemic to American culture. While my children go to a…

2 hard-boiled eggs A bowl of Cinnamon Life cereal A glass of cranberry blueberry blackberry juice