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	<title>Educating Archie</title>
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	<description>The trials and tribulations of raising and educating a profoundly gifted girl.</description>
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		<title>Another meeting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yet another meeting with a school.
Today’s meeting was started with “we’d like to get Archie tested again – just so we have an accurate picture.”
Bam – first thing off the bat.&#160; Translated by Archie and myself as “we don’t believe the results from 2007”.
It was all negative.&#160; If Archie does this then they’ll extend her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://educatingarchie.com/?p=81</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s good news week!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote to our wonderful psych the other day to give her an update on where we’re at with Archie and she wrote back with 
“well - looks like the roller coaster is speeding along there!Why can it never be easy? I guess to stretch the analogy - we ride the crests with exhilaration and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://educatingarchie.com/?p=80</link>
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		<title>By Archie&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thank you, all of you, for your wonderful comments, calls, and emails.&#160; I’ve really appreciated and was quite overwhelmed.
Archie got told by the teacher yesterday that she “just has to work harder on her hand writing as it’s the messiest in the class.”
Go the positive motivation techniques love.
The big thing is the pressure of time.&#160; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://educatingarchie.com/?p=79</link>
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		<title>Hanging in there &#8230; just.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Archie was off school for 3 days again last week.&#160; She complained of a sore tooth on Tuesday night so I had a look and here’s a horrid big abscess.&#160; Off to the local dentists on Wednesday.&#160; The Bulgarian butcher says “we’ll knock her out and rip 6 teeth out”.&#160; I don’t understand why her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://educatingarchie.com/?p=78</link>
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		<title>An undiscovered talent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You know how I wrote that post the other day about listening?&#160; Well, it works.
Archie, as you know, has been having piano lessons for about a term and a half now.&#160; She’s doing really well.&#160; There’s a few challenges – she reads the music once and plays it by memory from that point on.&#160; Her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://educatingarchie.com/?p=77</link>
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		<title>Invisible</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Archie’s doing a lot of telling me what she knows I want to hear.&#160; Sadly, it appears that very little of it is the true state of affairs.
She’s being pulled out for a maths group with a handful of other kids.&#160; She was telling me about this the other day and said she’d been working [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://educatingarchie.com/?p=76</link>
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		<title>Back from the wilderness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well I’m back!  My hard disk decided to teach me to back up my data on Saturday morning – the hard way…by dying.
So hubby and I have spent the past 5 days recovering the data and then rebuilding my laptop with a new hard drive.  It’s been a fairly stressful time as I’d been stupid [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://educatingarchie.com/?p=74</link>
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		<title>Extricating Archie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Archie’s school bell goes at 14:55 and she normally comes straight out.&#160; Yesterday I sat and waited patiently for her.&#160; And waited.&#160; And waited some more.&#160; By 10 past she still wasn’t out and the playground was almost empty.&#160; Seeing as we were now going to be late to get TeenQueen I figured I’d better [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://educatingarchie.com/?p=56</link>
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		<title>A new teacher</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Archie’s new teacher started yesterday.&#160; The jury is still out as to whether Archie is going to like her or not but she seemed relatively pleased with the start yesterday.&#160; She apparently doesn’t take any rubbish from the kids so it will be nice to see some discipline put back into the class.&#160; She’s also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://educatingarchie.com/?p=53</link>
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		<title>A busy weekend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Where did that weekend go?&#160; It seems like we hardly have the time to take a breath before we’re launched full throttle into the next week!
We achieved heaps of things on the weekend.&#160; Saturday morning was given over to cleaning up after a week of laziness.&#160; Our initial plan had been to meet with our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://educatingarchie.com/?p=52</link>
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