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    <title> A Children&#039;s Book with Triple Parenting Power: &quot;Schmaltzy, In America, Even a Cat Can Have a Dream&quot;</title>
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    <published>2009-11-05T22:27:02-06:00</published>
    <updated>2009-11-05T22:27:02-06:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>EarnanAGradeToday</name>
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    <category term="Mommy &amp; Family" />
    <category term="Children 8-10" />
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Animal Fair Magazine calls him a "Feline Prodigy." The New York Post said he is a "Celebrity in His Own Right."&nbsp; The most famous piano playing cat in the world is named Schmaltzy. His wears fabulous bowties and tuxedos. He has a devoted girlfriend named Falafel, who is a long-haired Exotic. He has an international fan club on YouTube. Of course, he also has his own website at <a href="http://www.schmaltzy.com">www.schmaltzy.com.</a>&nbsp;</p>    ]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Animal Fair Magazine calls him a "Feline Prodigy." The New York Post said he is a "Celebrity in His Own Right."&nbsp; The most famous piano playing cat in the world is named Schmaltzy. His wears fabulous bowties and tuxedos. He has a devoted girlfriend named Falafel, who is a long-haired Exotic. He has an international fan club on YouTube. Of course, he also has his own website at <a href="http://www.schmaltzy.com">www.schmaltzy.com.</a>&nbsp;</p><p>He was once an abandoned kitten and was rescued by The North Shore Animal League in Port Washington, N.Y. (finds homes for 20,000 pets a year). Schmaltzy uses his celebrity clout to help homeless cats find loving homes.&nbsp; <a href="http://www.nsalamerica.org">TELL THEM SCHMALTZY SENT YOU.</a></p><p>Schmaltzy just released his children's book and it has, "Triple Parenting Power." The book does more than get kids reading. It gets kids writing and practicing their music lessons, just like Schmaltzy. There are twenty-five chapters and new vocabulary words before each chapter. It has four color photographs and illustrations.&nbsp; Children prefer real animals over stuffed animals and real stories over make-beleive stories. Your kids will read this book over and over again. <a href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Schmaltzy/Sharon-Esther-Lampert/e/9781885872388/?itm=1&amp;USRI=schmaltzy">"Schmaltzy, In America Even a Cat Have a Dream"</a> is the children's book of the year and won the Children's Bookworm Award.&nbsp;</p><p>The book was published by the most innovative education company in the country, <a href="http://web.me.com/princesskadimah/TreeofKnowledgePress.com/TREE_OF_KNOWLEDGE_PRESS.html">Tree of Knowledge Press.com. </a>Their cutting edge books empower teachers, parents, and students.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>    ]]></content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Sex on a Plate: Food As Foreplay, The Cookbook of Everlasting Love</title>
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    <published>2009-11-05T21:12:13-06:00</published>
    <updated>2009-11-05T21:12:13-06:00</updated>
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      <name>EarnanAGradeToday</name>
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    <category term="Cooking for Health" />
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>The cookbook of the year award will eventually go to, <a href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Sex-on-a-Plate/Sharon-Esther-Lampert/e/9781885872487/?itm=2&amp;usri=sex+ona+plate">"SEX ON A PLATE: FOOD AS FOREPLAY</a></p><p>for the scrumptious recipes, magnificent vintage photographs, immortal love notes, and erotic love poetry. This is a culinary collector's edition.&nbsp;</p>    ]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>The cookbook of the year award will eventually go to, <a href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Sex-on-a-Plate/Sharon-Esther-Lampert/e/9781885872487/?itm=2&amp;usri=sex+ona+plate">"SEX ON A PLATE: FOOD AS FOREPLAY</a></p><p>for the scrumptious recipes, magnificent vintage photographs, immortal love notes, and erotic love poetry. This is a culinary collector's edition.&nbsp;</p><p>When couples sit down to eat, they want more than a delicious meal, they want to have an intimate conversation with their dinner companion. Couples who wine and dine want to establish a romantic relationship of love and tenderness.</p><p>Too often, couples sit down together and turn their romantic dinner into a therapy session which puts a damper on their love life.&nbsp; This cookbook shows you how to make a delicious meal and how to have a conversation that focuses on building intimacy that leads to a sexual encounter instead of a theraputic encounter.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>    ]]></content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Educators in 50 U. S. States Read  &quot;Book of the Month&quot;</title>
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    <published>2009-11-05T18:22:54-06:00</published>
    <updated>2009-11-05T18:24:34-06:00</updated>
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      <name>EarnanAGradeToday</name>
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    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>“Education reform is in the pipeline,” says Harold Arkin, a fifth grade elementary school teacher. <br /><br />Referred to by educators as “The Book of the Century”--<a href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Silent-Crisis-Destroying-Americas-Brightest-Minds/Sharon-RoseSugar/e/9781885872548/?itm=1&amp;usri=the+silent+crisis+destroying"> “The Silent Crisis Destroying America’s Brightest Minds”</a> by Sharon Rose Sugar was chosen as, “Book of the Month” by the</p>    ]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>“Education reform is in the pipeline,” says Harold Arkin, a fifth grade elementary school teacher. <br /><br />Referred to by educators as “The Book of the Century”--<a href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Silent-Crisis-Destroying-Americas-Brightest-Minds/Sharon-RoseSugar/e/9781885872548/?itm=1&amp;usri=the+silent+crisis+destroying"> “The Silent Crisis Destroying America’s Brightest Minds”</a> by Sharon Rose Sugar was chosen as, “Book of the Month” by the<br />Alma Public Library in Wisconsin. An education book has never before achieved this rarefied distinction surpassing the great novelists of our time. And the book has only<br />been out and about for a month. The author, one of New York City’s finest learning specialists pioneered the new learning technology, that transforms borderline students into Grade A students, <a href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Every-day-an-easy-A/Sharon-Rose-Sugar/e/9781885872562/?itm=6&amp;USRI=every+day+an+easy+a">“EVERY DAY, AN EASY A.”&nbsp; </a>Celebrity kids flock to Ms. Sugar’s office for homework pointers and test preparation tips. <br /><br />Lucy Lui, a parent with a child in nursery school remarked, “I hope that the critical reforms in the book take hold before my child enters the first grade.”<br /><br />President Obama promised to tackle education soon after the economy and health care and ‘The Book of the Century” which it is aptly named is the wake-up call and call to action. An American classic is born. <br /><br /></p>    ]]></content>
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  <entry>
    <title>The Silent Crisis Destroying America&#039;s Brightest Minds</title>
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    <published>2009-07-09T18:02:50-05:00</published>
    <updated>2009-07-09T18:05:00-05:00</updated>
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    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p> When Will America's Children Become America's First Priority? </p>
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<p>Book: </p>
<p>The Silent Crisis Destroying America’s Brightest Minds</p>
<p>By Sharon Rose Sugar</p>
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<p>Book: </p>
<p>The Silent Crisis Destroying America’s Brightest Minds</p>
<p>By Sharon Rose Sugar</p>
<p>ISBN:  978-1-885872-54-8</p>
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<p>Why are the brightest among us,  America’s Brightest Minds, committing suicide in every great school in the nation, by jumping off jagged cliffs, library balconies, dorm-room rooftops, and famous bridges?</p>
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<p> This revolutionary book on American education courageously tackles tough and treacherous terrain. It treads dangerously on minefields deeply buried in American pedagogy. Armed with a penetrating arrow of perspicacious hindsight, insight, and foresight, this book will pierce your heart and mind and leave indelible footprints; it will awaken within you your own deeply buried and forsaken memories of academic heartache and triumph. Ms. Sharon Rose Sugar is a smart woman and this is a groundbreaking and brilliant book that will never gather dust on a library shelf or be passed over in a bookstore. </p>
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<p>Most American students, even the brightest among us, will earn a diploma, but not an education, because most student are enrolled in a malfunctioning, private or public, &quot;Quantity Over Quality Curriculum-Driven American education system&quot; that is riddled with “Academic Insanity.” </p>
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<p>As early as the third grade, most American students will suffer from the “Pain of Inadequacy” and graduate bearing the “Scars of Incompetence.&quot; The malfunctioning American education system is a runaway train manned by a blindsided conductor who is decapitating students without warning because he is clueless as to, ”How Does Learning Take Place?”  Most students are anxious, stressed, and suffer &quot;bouts of depression from the daily academic grind of “Read Cram, Regurgitate, and Test.”  The abusive (tricky) “Hotdog” exams do not measure education.  Too many American students are disconnected, depressed, distracted, disillusioned, disgruntled, disobedient—and drugged.</p>
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<p>There are eight distinct groups of students who have become victims: America's Brightest Minds; misdiagnosed </p>
<p>A.D.H.D. students, children living in poverty, high school dropouts, America’s prison inmates, and military recruits; </p>
<p>lateral right-brain creative students; and depressed and suicidal college students drowning in student debt.</p>
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<p>This book addresses the hot-button issues in American education:  The A.D.H.D. epidemic; school-bomb scares; school </p>
<p>shootings and massacres; stop-lossed soldiers; America's prison population; high school dropouts; and college binge-drinking.</p>
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<p>According to Ms. Sugar, &quot;Most students do not learn how to succeed in the American education system; they spend most </p>
<p>of their time learning how to survive the American education system.&quot; </p>
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<p>This book asks and answers more than fifty questions as to why the malfunctioning American education system is failing </p>
<p>to educate the strong linear left-brain students, as well as the most vulnerable: The lateral right-brain creative students.</p>
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<p>Q:   Why do the best schools have the highest suicide rates?</p>
<p>Q:   Why do,  America’s Brightest Minds, have to cut corners and cheat?</p>
<p>Q:   Why do,  America’s Brightest Minds, need metal detectors?</p>
<p>Q:   Why are,  America’s Brightest Minds, drinking themselves into a stupor, under a table, onto a floor, and into an early grave?</p>
<p>Q:   Why are,  America’s Brightest Minds,  dropping out of the best schools in the nation?</p>
<p>Q:   Why are the most sensitive and creative students misdiagnosed with,  A.D.H.D., “an incurable brain disorder”? </p>
<p> </p>
<p>According to the author, Ms. Sugar, an education-warrior stationed on the frontline of the battlefield for literacy, who </p>
<p>pioneered a new learning technology, ACANDY Processing Tools, and Intrapersonal-Integration Therapy, that heals dispirited </p>
<p>students. “I single-handedly rescued many children and I wrote the book to save the lives of millions of American children.” </p>
<p>This book is a wake-up call and a call to action. There is a bright and illuminating light at the end of the dark and dingy </p>
<p>education tunnel of doom and gloom: </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Q:   What are the fifteen stumbling-blocks of academic failure?</p>
<p>Q:   What are the fifteen stepping-stones for academic success?</p>
<p>Q:   How do you nurture and cultivate the awesome power of the human brain? </p>
<p>Q:   How does learning take place?</p>
<p>Q:   How does the new learning technology, ACANDY Processing Tools, transform victims into victors? </p>
<p>Q:   What is the Universal Gold Standard of Education?</p>
<p> </p>
<p>There is something for everyone: Teachers, parents, students, psychiatrists, and politicians.  This book will never grow old </p>
<p>and gather dust on a library shelf because this book empowers, emancipates, and entertains, but most importantly, it educates, a rare and elusive commodity. This book has legs that walk the talk: Every Student Is a Success Story. </p>
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  <entry>
    <title>The Ten Facts of Academic Success (Book: Your Study Room Is Under New Management)</title>
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    <published>2008-08-14T17:40:56-05:00</published>
    <updated>2009-07-09T17:41:47-05:00</updated>
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      <name>EarnanAGradeToday</name>
    </author>
    <category term="Mommy &amp; Family" />
    <category term="BlogHer Business 2008" />
    <category term="education" />
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    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>From New York City's  Premier Learning Specialist, Sharon Rose Sugar</p>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>From New York City's  Premier Learning Specialist, Sharon Rose Sugar</p>
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<p><span class="Apple-style-span">1. The First Week of School</span></p>
<p>It only takes the first week of school for a student to <br />fall behind and start playing catch-up.</p>
<p><strong>2. The Critical Hours of the School Day</strong><br />The critical hours of your child's school day are <br />from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m: study room, study schedule, <br />study strategy, study snacks, homework, essays, <br />research papers and test preparation.</p>
<p><strong>3. The Report Card</strong><br />The report card tells you about the schoolwork your <br />child does at home (3-11 p.m.): homework assignments, <br />research reports, and test preparation (class participation 5%).</p>
<p><strong>4. The Warning Sign: C Grade</strong><br />The first C Grade is a sign that your child needs help ASAP.  Bad grades are like dirty diapers. It is a parent's responsibility to clean up a child's dirty diapers and bad report card. Children cannot raise themselves. It is never the child’s fault. Doing well in school is all about the facts, namely, the retrieval of the facts and the return of the facts to the teacher.</p>
<p><strong>5. Bad Grades, Pain, Disconnection and Permanent Records</strong><br />A bad grade feels like a punch in the face. A bad grade hurts. Your child is in pain.  Your child’s self-esteem suffers. Your child disconnects from the class. Your child becomes blocked.  Your child becomes depressed. Your child becomes enraged. Your child acts out. Your child finds escapes: TV, internet, mp3 player and video games (sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll). Your child is labeled ADHD. Don’t wait for a bad grade to become a permanent record on a report card.  Your child needs ACANDY Processing skills. </p>
<p><strong>6. ACANDY Processing Skills: Earn an A Grade Today</strong><br />There is a new learning technology called ACANDY Processing SKills, that transforms borderline students into Straight-A-Grade students.  Students earn A Grades on the next test, EVERY DAY, AN EASY A.  </p>
<p><strong>7. Good Grades Deserve Great Rewards</strong><br />When your child is doing poorly in school, your child is in pain. Punishment and fear humiliate a child.  Rewards and incentives reinforce good behavior.</p>
<p><strong>8. Academic Athletes Require Energy to Learn</strong><br />A regular bedtime and a nutritious breakfast of oatmeal give your child the ENERGY to learn: focus, organize, listen, think, write, edit, proofread, rewrite, research, memorize, and test.</p>
<p><strong>9.  There is No Such Thing As Too Much Love</strong><br />A triple daily dose of, “I LOVE YOU AND I AM VERY PROUD OF YOU&quot; is food for the soul.</p>
<p><strong><br />10.  In 24 Hours, You Can Get Back on the Grade A Track</strong><br />GRADES: The 80/20 Rule: Grades are the percentage of facts that your child sends back to the teacher on a test. If your child can send back 80% of the facts on a test for a B grade, then your child can send back the remaining  20% of the facts for an A grade.</p>
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