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		<title>Stuff Wrestling Moms Say&#8211; Part I</title>
		<link>http://wrestlingmom.net/2012/02/10/stuff-wrestling-moms-say-part-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Weldon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are like me, you have been hooting and hollering about all the new viral "S---" different people say. I thought it was about time to give wrestling moms our due. I have so much material stay tuned for Part II.]]></description>
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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>Caryn Brooks: Sam Brooks wins bronze; Mom almost misses it!</title>
		<link>http://wrestlingmom.net/2011/08/31/caryn-brooks-sam-brooks-wins-bronze-mom-almost-misses-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 19:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Weldon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing could be worse than sitting in the stands all day or even just an evening only to miss your son or daughter’s six minutes, right? Well I have discovered what could be worse – traveling overseas to watch your son wrestle and missing it!
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		<title>Guest Essay by Caryn Brooks: &#8220;You deserve it&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://wrestlingmom.net/2011/07/10/guest-essay-by-caryn-brooks-you-deserve-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2011 14:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Weldon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As wrestling parents we all make hard choices. My children, especially Sam, have been given amazing opportunities because of wrestling. I would like to be there as they take advantage of those things, but it’s not always possible. ]]></description>
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		<title>Planning for next year&#8217;s team state wrestling championship</title>
		<link>http://wrestlingmom.net/2011/06/29/planning-for-next-years-team-state-wrestling-championship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Weldon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speaking of off-season work ethic, Coach Mike Powell is in San Diego with some of the team training with the Vista wrestlers for a week of twice a day wrestling practices. Colin is there and working hard. The Vista wrestlers come to Oak Park in two weeks to train here. 

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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>Coaching &amp; Parenting: Knowing What To Say When and How</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 01:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Weldon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have taught all my boys to read, ride a bicycle, drive a car, heck, even eat with a fork, make a bed or a sandwich, fold clothes and study for tests, plus 10,000 other life skills they need to know to be able to get from Monday to Tuesday and from kindergarten through college. But it is Coach Powell they listen to. He's tough when he needs to be. Kind when it counts. A mother is not a coach and maybe it would be weird if we both delivered the same messages the same way. But we both want the same results. ]]></description>
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