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		<title>Final Rules</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mama Tortoise</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear readers, The time has come for me to close up Tortoise on the Loose. The irony is that I simply don’t have the time. Or, more correctly, I need to use my energy and time on paid writing, creative writing and my studies. This doesn’t mean that I am abandoning the philosophy of slowing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tortoiseontheloose.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11320178&amp;post=1009&amp;subd=tortoiseontheloose&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Halloween Might Injure or Kill Your Kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 03:35:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mama Tortoise</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[fear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Halloween]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before you let your kids out of the house this Halloween, have you considered that they are more likely to be hit by a vehicle than at any other time of the year? Or have you seen the reports warning parents about the flammability of Halloween costumes? Oh, then we have to take into account [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tortoiseontheloose.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11320178&amp;post=1002&amp;subd=tortoiseontheloose&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons in Friendship</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mama Tortoise</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lessons Learned]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinking about slow parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[friendship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It has been so long since I’ve managed to scrounge together some time for a blog post. With the Bear starting school in September, we have been barely keeping our heads above water with the amount of commitments we’ve had. There are the ordinary ones such as school and work. Then there are the social [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tortoiseontheloose.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11320178&amp;post=997&amp;subd=tortoiseontheloose&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Garden Review – Best and Worst Gardening Decisions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 20:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mama Tortoise</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[slow food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vegetable gardening]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The garden is officially done. We’ve brought in all the veggies and our pantry and freezer is packed. It’s funny how finishing a project makes you reflect on how you could have done things differently. Here are the best and worst gardening decisions we made this year. Best decisions we made this season - Nasturtiums. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tortoiseontheloose.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11320178&amp;post=993&amp;subd=tortoiseontheloose&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Busy Life of Ernestine Buckmeister (Book Review)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mama Tortoise</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[children's books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hyper-parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linda Lodding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Institute of Play]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[play]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suzanne Beaky]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By: Linda Ravin Lodding Illustrated by: Suzanne Beaky Published October 2011 by Flashlight Press We’ve reached an interesting turning point in children’s literature when the message of a kid’s book is aimed at both parents and children. The Busy Life of Ernestine Buckmeister by Linda Lodding captures the essence of the over-scheduled child in a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tortoiseontheloose.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11320178&amp;post=988&amp;subd=tortoiseontheloose&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finding our Groove</title>
		<link>http://tortoiseontheloose.wordpress.com/2011/09/17/finding-our-grove/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 23:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mama Tortoise</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thinking about slow parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[back to school]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slow Family Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[slow living]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I feel like a bit of an imposter. As much as we try to slow things down, life just seems to speed up. It’s the end of a full week of having the Bear in Kindergarten. Banana also started ‘school’ this week at a community-based childcare centre. She will only be going one day [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tortoiseontheloose.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11320178&amp;post=980&amp;subd=tortoiseontheloose&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Harvest Season Begins – Dilled Zucchini Anyone?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mama Tortoise</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recipes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[canning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farmer's market]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s a beautiful September week and the perfect time to focus on veggies. We’ve already been snacking on carrots and potatoes from the garden. Then there are all the tomatoes that [I thought] I over-planted in the spring. Even though we ended up with 15 plants, I’ve been thrilled to have an over-abundance of tomatoes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tortoiseontheloose.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11320178&amp;post=970&amp;subd=tortoiseontheloose&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>School Schmool</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 04:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mama Tortoise</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thinking about slow parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[helicopter parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home schooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hyper-parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public school]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Idle Parent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Hodgkinson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waiting for Superman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I’m all for homeschooling, just let me know which ‘home’ I should drop my children off at. Today was the Bear’s first day of public school. Although, according to Tom Hodgkinson of The Idle Parent, homeschooling would be preferable. There are many homeschooling parents out there who are advocates of bypassing the system in order [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tortoiseontheloose.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11320178&amp;post=964&amp;subd=tortoiseontheloose&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Show What You Grow</title>
		<link>http://tortoiseontheloose.wordpress.com/2011/08/26/show-what-you-grow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 03:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mama Tortoise</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children's Activities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edmonton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edmonton Horticultural Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fort Edmonton Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gardening with children]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking for a family activity this weekend? You might want to check out the Show What You Grow event at Fort Edmonton Park. This event is put on by the Edmonton Horticultural Society to celebrate the end of the growing season. This is a great way to get inspired about local food and see what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tortoiseontheloose.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11320178&amp;post=959&amp;subd=tortoiseontheloose&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Benefits of a Little Suffering</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mama Tortoise</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lessons Learned]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[camping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hiking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[resilience theory]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bear needed to go to the bathroom. It was our second last day in the mountains and we were far from any sort of conventional bathroom. Not a problem. She set off for the nearest tree. I watched her hold onto branches for support then look around for leaves to use as pseudo toilet [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tortoiseontheloose.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11320178&amp;post=953&amp;subd=tortoiseontheloose&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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