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		<title>Playing to Their Strengths:                              Teaching Children with Down Syndrome</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is a short tutorial directed at my son&#8217;s teachers; a love letter of sorts, if you will. He is 3, and in a preschool for exceptional children within our local elementary school. I think these ideas apply broadly though, to all professionals and all parents whose children have Down syndrome or other cognitive disorders. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=modernmessy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15967888&amp;post=190&amp;subd=modernmessy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wish I May, Wish I Might</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you have a child with Down syndrome, you have lots of dreams and goals for your little one. Some of them are simple &#8212; or I should say, they sound simple to most people &#8212; dreaming of the day he will walk, or say your name, or sleep in a bed instead of a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=modernmessy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15967888&amp;post=185&amp;subd=modernmessy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>He Came Bearing Whimsy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this season of tallying up, starting fresh and counting one&#8217;s blessings, I am grateful for many things: my loyal readers, a healthy family, a funny husband, loving parents and friends, a comfortable house and Carolina sunshine. But in particular, I am also grateful for my son&#8217;s outlook on life. You see, he is a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=modernmessy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15967888&amp;post=170&amp;subd=modernmessy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Belated New Year!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you for being a reader of Thoroughly Modern Messy and sharing our journey. If you are new to the site, welcome, and please come back and visit often! (You can click &#8220;Follow&#8221; in the bottom right corner so you don&#8217;t miss any posts &#8212; we&#8217;ve got some good ones in store).  Become a fan [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=modernmessy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15967888&amp;post=177&amp;subd=modernmessy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Away She Goes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that I&#8217;ve had a little time to think about it, I&#8217;ve figured out what bothers me most about the First Day of School. It&#8217;s the doors. The doors to the classrooms. They are so narrow, and there are no windows on the walls either. You take your oldest child, whom you have raised for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=modernmessy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15967888&amp;post=165&amp;subd=modernmessy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Special Homecoming Awaits</title>
		<link>http://modernmessy.wordpress.com/2011/08/18/a-special-homecoming-awaits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 01:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back I posted about the Maddex family, who are active in the Down syndrome community here in Charlotte and are in the process of adopting a boy with Down syndrome from the Ukraine, their fourth child (and second with Down syndrome). Well, they have made it to the grand finale in their adoption [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=modernmessy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15967888&amp;post=158&amp;subd=modernmessy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Up, Down and All Around</title>
		<link>http://modernmessy.wordpress.com/2011/08/07/up-down-and-all-around/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 17:54:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joy and grief. Clarity and confusion. Ease and difficulty. Twin emotions that came with the birth of our beautiful, amazing twins nearly three years ago. One, a girl, snuggly and often crying, but simple to figure out. The other a boy, born with Down syndrome, squirmy and quiet, hard to hold, host to some odd [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=modernmessy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15967888&amp;post=144&amp;subd=modernmessy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s So Hard About That?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 19:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes having a child with special needs means doing things the hard way. By that I mean the painstaking way. Our son with Down syndrome is two and a half, and I don&#8217;t bring the stroller anymore when we leave the house. I stopped probably right when he began learning to walk, shortly after his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=modernmessy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15967888&amp;post=136&amp;subd=modernmessy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fields of Dreams</title>
		<link>http://modernmessy.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/fields-of-dreams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 11:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across this amazing headline online the other day: &#8220;Down syndrome football player scores touchdown in Washington game.&#8221; Wow! Was all I could think.  That is truly news. I have to read that story and watch the video. But it wasn&#8217;t exactly what I thought. It&#8217;s still lovely and amazing, but….for me it raised [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=modernmessy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15967888&amp;post=126&amp;subd=modernmessy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Check Out My New Page!</title>
		<link>http://modernmessy.wordpress.com/2011/04/02/check-out-my-new-page/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 04:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve added a new page to the Modern Messy blog. Called &#8220;Danil&#8217;s Page,&#8221; it is helping to spread the word about a family here in Charlotte who have a son with Down syndrome and are adopting another, Danil, from the Ukraine. He&#8217;s really cute and their cause is a very worthy one. I will do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=modernmessy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15967888&amp;post=114&amp;subd=modernmessy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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