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		<title>10 Life Lessons I Learned Watching Wrestling</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Weldon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's Friday night and I am in a Coralville, Iowa hotel room, a little weary from the four-hour drive from Chicago west on 88 and then even west-er on 80, past texting truck drivers and horizontal snow winds, miles of empty ice-dusted fields and about 1,000 signs for Subway. I just finished putting six turkey, cheese and spinach sandwiches I made this morning and about a gallon of Vitamin Water in the small humming refrigerator for Colin to eat tomorrow after the weigh-ins for the Iowa City West quad against Apple Valley and Marmion.]]></description>
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		<title>Winning is Best</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Weldon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know we are all supposed to be above this kind of thing. We are not gloat. We are in it for the challenge and the discipline of the sport. But oh my, it is one of the 10 best feelings in the world when your son has his hand raised in victory in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caryn Brooks: You Know You&#8217;re A Wrestling Mom (or Dad) When&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://wrestlingmom.net/2011/12/28/caryn-brooks-you-know-youre-a-wrestling-mom-or-dad-when/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Weldon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know you're a wrestling parent when: Beyonce sings about all the “single ladies” and you hear “all the single legs” and wonder why Beyonce has a song out about wrestling?...The smell of wrestling shoes brings back memories of matches rather than makes you sick to your stomach (ok, it might make you sick to your stomach as well)...You know more about rashes than your doctor.]]></description>
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		<title>Nowhere else I&#8217;d rather be: Gearing up for Colin&#8217;s final high school wrestling season</title>
		<link>http://wrestlingmom.net/2011/11/16/nowhere-id-rather-be-gearing-up-for-colins-final-high-school-wrestling-season/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Weldon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the stands every wrestling season since 2004 I have had plenty of anxiety attacks about what work I needed to do once I got home, what I needed to get accomplished for the house or for life, how to keep all the pins juggling in the air. But it was always worth it to go, spend most of the day in a gym wearing the orange and the blue just to see what splendor my sons could create. And it was splendid, even if the gym smelled bad and the other parents were sometimes hostile and some kids cried when they lost. 
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		<title>It&#8217;s Father&#8217;s Day at Every House</title>
		<link>http://wrestlingmom.net/2011/06/19/its-fathers-day-at-every-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 21:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Weldon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The truth is many men need to step up to their responsibilities. It is not a class issue, a race issue or even a generational issue.  It is a human rights issue. 
Today my oldest son forwarded me an email from the head of a much bigger household. Barack Obama, himself raised by a single mother in the absence of a father, writing from the White House. 


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		<title>One Wrestling Mom&#8217;s Idea of Fun: Essay by Caryn Brooks</title>
		<link>http://wrestlingmom.net/2011/06/12/one-wrestling-moms-idea-of-fun-essay-by-caryn-brooks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 01:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Weldon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s Saturday night and I have the rare opportunity to do whatever I want. My three sons are all young adults and elsewhere at this point in their lives. You might think I’d pull out that romance novel I’ve been looking forward to (yes, I know they are trashy, but I love them) or put on a chick flick I haven’t been able to watch.
But no, I have a better guilty pleasure in mind, wrestling. ]]></description>
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		<title>Mother&#8217;s Day and Everyday: Choosy Mothers Have to Choose</title>
		<link>http://wrestlingmom.net/2011/05/07/mothers-day-and-everyday-choosy-mothers-have-to-choose/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2011 15:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Weldon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a few years when the boys were small I went out to eat on Mother's Day with them, paid the hefty brunch prices and basked in the boys' adoration, even if they did keep asking the waiter to refill the bread basket so many times he was deeply annoyed. I felt as a single [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WIN WIN so so on wrestling</title>
		<link>http://wrestlingmom.net/2011/04/12/win-win-so-so-on-wrestling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Weldon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's all fine and dandy and true-feeling from the bad coaches and kids who are horrible in practice to the skinny kid, Stemler, who is terrified of wrestling, to the entire team on the bus en route to their own pinning crucifixions. We also loved the brief scene with all the wrestlers piling up the stairs and out of the Flaherty basement in a blur of muscular adolescence. And Kyle's tatoos. A lot of wrestlers have tattoos. 
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		<title>Battle Hymn of the Huskies Moms</title>
		<link>http://wrestlingmom.net/2011/01/20/battle-hymn-of-the-huskies-moms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Weldon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have read a lot of comments about the new book, "Battle Hymn of The Tiger Mother." And this is what I think.  It takes a big parent to admit her reach is limited. It takes a realistic mother to understand that it is not optimal to have your influence over your child be so enormous that it shapes everything the child does or hopes to become. I do my best. I strongly suggest. I mandate. I insist. But I do not believe parenting is meant to be a battle. And the battle hymn we sing as parents should be a song that is inspirational, uplifting and not just noise in the background. ]]></description>
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		<title>We all want our hand in the air</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2010 01:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Weldon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Colin has been doing well so far this season, 6-2; had some tough matches, won most, lost a few. I saw them all. And I was screaming like a maniac at every win. I like to win. I like my sons to win. Of course it isn't everything. But it's pretty nice when it happens, [...]]]></description>
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