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	<title>Helen Lee: Author, Speaker, Missional Mom</title>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Wrong With Gifted Education For Our Kids?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 04:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While having dinner with a family who lives in Manhattan, the parents told me about their daughter’s saga of testing for kindergarten admission into New York’s notoriously selective Hunter Elementary School. The parents are two of the brightest people I know, and their four-year-old daughter is fluent in at least three languages so far (Mandarin, French, and English). Her test results placed her in the impressive 98th percentile. And yet, she hadn’t made it past the first round; only kids who scored in the 99th percentile and above advanced. My friends took it in good stride, shrugging off the results. “I look on the bright side,” said Jennifer. “At least she scored in the 98th percentile! I just wasn’t willing...]]></description>
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		<title>Success for Our Kids&#8230;At What Cost?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:50:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We recently hosted friends from New York City for dinner, who came with their two young daughters in tow. The elder, a precocious four-year-old who can easily speak three different languages (Mandarin, French, and in last place, English), had taken an entrance exam to attend kindergarten at one of the city&#8217;s notoriously sought-after schools. She&#8217;d done well, scoring higher than 98 percent of all applicants. But apparently, being in the top 2 percent wasn&#8217;t good enough; she had to score well above 99 percent of all applicants in order to have a chance of admission. &#8220;Well, at least we know she scored pretty well on the test,&#8221; my friend Jennifer said with a shrug. These are the times in which...]]></description>
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		<title>Think Before You Comment?</title>
		<link>http://www.helenleeauthor.com/2012/10/urbanaoutcry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 13:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Missions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gender equality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I was browsing through Facebook last week, I noticed that my friend DJ Chuang had posted a photo on Facebook about the upcoming Urbana Student Missions Conference, as he was running a contest to encourage pastors to win a free pass to the conference. (DJ is on the &#8220;Social Media Squad&#8221; for Urbana to help cover and promote the event.) Interestingly, though, it wasn&#8217;t the contest that seemed to generate any attention, but the photo that DJ posted (which you can see on his website); he had created a montage of the current lineup of speakers for the &#8220;Pastors and Church Leaders&#8221; track, and although the 12 people portrayed reflected ethnic and racial diversity, the glaring reality that only...]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Gangnam Style&#8221;: The Downside to the Hype</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps you’ve been wondering what all the fuss is about “Gangnam Style,” the latest YouTube video-gone-viral with more than 220 million views to date. If you are one of the few remaining inhabitants of the planet who haven’t seen the video, then let me bring you up to speed: • The rap/song features South Korean pop star Park Jae-Sang, who goes by the name “Psy” (short for “Psycho”), accompanied by a cast of South Korean celebrities who most of us will not recognize, all dancing to a driving, ear-catching techno beat. • Unless you are fluent in Korean, you can expect to understand none of the words in the video except “sexy lady” (and of course, “Gangnam style”. By the way, “Gangnam”...]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Wrong With Settling?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2012 16:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christian Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Missional Living]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I was talking with one of my sons about friends who are planning to enter into the mission field soon. I was sharing my excitement for their decision when my son interrupted me. &#8220;Will we be moving to another country, too?&#8221; His voice reflected anxiety, not excitement, worry clouding his face. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know,&#8221; I told him. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know if that will be God&#8217;s call for us. But whether he is calling us to the mission field or not, he is still calling for us to be missionaries wherever we are.&#8221; &#8220;So, we don&#8217;t have to move anytime soon?&#8221; he pressed. &#8220;That would be really hard.&#8221; I could completely relate to his feelings. I am a homebody, someone...]]></description>
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		<title>Giving Up Clutter for Lent, Part Four: Clutter Wins. Or Does It?</title>
		<link>http://www.helenleeauthor.com/2012/03/giving-up-clutter-for-lent-part-four-clutter-wins-or-does-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christian Living]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[de-clutter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, I had about 90 minutes, maybe 2 solid hours if I was lucky, to do as I pleased. My youngest son, who requires the most hands-on care, was blissfully asleep. My 6-year-old was out of the house and my eldest was reading, which he can do for an entire afternoon when given the opportunity. So what would I do with this unusual bounty of time? My mind was spinning with how I could use it, what task I should attack, whether I could get most of it done in two hours. Before this point, I had been cleaning the kitchen from the morning aftermath, then doing non-stop loads of laundry, then feeding my kids lunch, then...]]></description>
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		<title>Quick Lessons: Giving Up Clutter for Lent, Part Three</title>
		<link>http://www.helenleeauthor.com/2012/03/quick-lessons-giving-up-clutter-for-lent-part-three/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 20:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christian Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian spirituality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A quick post tonight, because I am busy de-cluttering the re-cluttered areas of my house in preparation for guests tomorrow! A few more things I have learned from this process: The process of de-junking one&#8217;s life is a discipline just like any other. It requires a sacrifice of time, leisure, and in my case, a personal preference to do anything else other than neatening our living areas. In this regard, it has been a good experience during Lent, a time in which experiencing some sort of sacrifice feels appropriate leading up to Holy Week. But we&#8217;ve hit a plateau. We&#8217;re barely managing to maintain that small area of space we have de-cluttered; progressing any further will require a significant investment of...]]></description>
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		<title>Giving Up Clutter for Lent, Part Two</title>
		<link>http://www.helenleeauthor.com/2012/03/giving-up-clutter-for-lent-part-two/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 20:03:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are a little over a week into Lent, and in this post I wanted to address some of the lessons I have begun to learn as we have been pursuing this particular choice of discipline. And, let me also answer some questions, such as, &#8220;How exactly is this working for you? Did you go through an entire decluttering of the house first?&#8221; Uh, no. That would have proven nearly fatal for us to try to execute, such is the extent of clutter in our house. In fact, the enormity of the task has proven in the past to be the cause of my not addressing it; it just seemed too hopeless to make much of a dent in all...]]></description>
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		<title>Why We&#8217;ve Given Up Clutter for Lent</title>
		<link>http://www.helenleeauthor.com/2012/02/why-weve-given-up-clutter-for-lent/</link>
		<comments>http://www.helenleeauthor.com/2012/02/why-weve-given-up-clutter-for-lent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 20:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now I know it doesn&#8217;t sound all that spiritual to give up clutter for Lent. But stick with me as I explain our rationale, and I will be blogging about this off and on in the days to come. For starters, what you are seeing here are a true-to-life photos of my office. I share this with much fear and trembling (&#8220;What will people think of me? Maybe I will never get another job again after people see what a mess my life really is!&#8221;) And while this is probably the worst of our clutter spots, I&#8217;m embarrassed to admit that almost every single room and hallway in our house had been untidy, at best. So, instead of giving up sweets, chocolate,...]]></description>
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		<title>Prone to Overparenting?</title>
		<link>http://www.helenleeauthor.com/2011/12/prone-to-overparenting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our family had reached a breaking point: my eldest son was in first grade and was tired all the time from a combination of school, music, sports, church, and lessons in Mandarin on Sundays. The reason he was taking Mandarin wasn’t to honor our family heritage (we are not Chinese-American), but because of a random phrase that his piano teacher had uttered in passing when he was five: “The children in my studio who go to Chinese school are the best ones at memorizing music as well,” she said. “Something about learning all those characters must strengthen their brains.” That was enough to send me into a flurry of Mandarin-mania, and within six months, my son was learning all about...]]></description>
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