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		<title>Teaching Kindness to Children</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It can be challenging to guide children into understanding how to define and integrate the character-building value of KINDNESS.  Kindness is one  of those broad general words like &#8220;nice.&#8221;  Through the creative arts, family and teacher role modeling as well as choices in specific school curriculum,  we can teach the true meaning of kindness.  We can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cherylmelody.com/2010/07/22/teaching-kindness-to-children/</link>
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		<title>Teaching Respectful Communication Montessori Style</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Respect&#8221; in my generation often meant being unseen, unheard, and stifling hurt or angry feelings.   Montessori schools have a unique and positive approach towards respectful communication and conflict-resolution that begins in early childhood.  The Peace Rose is integrated into every day classroom life of conflict and resolution.  Children who are experiencing conflict are encouraged to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cherylmelody.com/2010/07/22/teaching-respectful-communication-montessori-style/</link>
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		<title>Teaching Tolerance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tolerance seems like such an impatient word.  Why wouldn&#8217;t we be &#8220;tolerant?&#8221;  Even the most broadminded person often is aware of internal prejudices, stereotypical judgments and bias.  We may have been raised a certain way or absorbed the bias as we were growing.  I believe that step one is to be aware and truthful with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cherylmelody.com/2010/07/22/teaching-tolerance/</link>
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		<title>Silent No More-A True Story about Bullying</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time there was a child who was bullied, teased and talked about whenever she was going to school, was in school or was coming home from school.  No one knows the exact reason.  Maybe it was because she belonged to a minority religion, maybe it was because her family didn’t have a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cherylmelody.com/2010/05/10/silent-no-more-a-true-story-about-bullying/</link>
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		<title>Respect, Character and Anti-Bullying Education Begins in Nursery School</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mean behavior starts early.  We need to be proactive and start early to stay on top of insensitive actions and reactions exhibited by children. Role modeling is the most effective teaching of all.  Scary how we have to stay on top of our own behavior, but it is the greatest teacher of all.   Children have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cherylmelody.com/2010/04/01/respect-character-and-anti-bullying-education-begins-in-nursery-school/</link>
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		<title>The Music of Silence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This may seem strange for a musician to say, but sometimes I don’t want to hear any of my favorite pieces of music.   I don’t want to sing, or compose or go to a concert, or have a conversation, or DO anything.  I just want to BE!  Do I sound anti-social and reclusive?  Yes, sometimes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cherylmelody.com/2010/03/04/the-music-of-silence/</link>
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		<title>LOVE AND MUSIC-The Connection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we put a Valentine&#8217;s Day magnifying glass on the vibratory word of &#8220;Love,&#8221; I share with you a song that I often sing or say: &#8220;Love is the only power, love is the only way, love love love love, watch our circle grow.&#8221;   As this chant is repeated, sung gently within and then offered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cherylmelody.com/2010/02/12/love/</link>
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		<title>Peace through Music-My Non-Political Definition of &#8220;Peace&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Peace is a deeply emotional word, and I’m often asked what I personally mean by Peace Concerts.  My non-political definition is that peace begins with you and me.  I believe that every word, thought, action and feeling creates a vibrational effect on our entire planet. I had this awareness even as a little girl. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cherylmelody.com/2010/01/05/peacethroughmusicblog/</link>
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		<title>Tone Deaf, and Singing Anyways! Adventures in Sound and Healing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did anyone ever tell you that you should just mouth the words, or “don’t quit your day job?” Has it paralyzed you from singing for yourself, or for your child? Well, take the rebel out, and hum and sing anyways-in tune or out of tune, it doesn’t matter. It is your birthright to sing, and scientific [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cherylmelody.com/2009/12/17/soundhealing-sing-tonedeaf/</link>
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		<title>Raising a Child&#8217;s Emotional IQ through Music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I was delighted to receive the 2010 KIDLUTIONS PREFERRED PRODUCT AWARD for my 6 children’s music CDs.  The reviewers were looking for products that develop emotional intelligence, as well as being entertaining.   As a composer and educator, I believe that the WORDS in each song need to be purposeful and consciously written.  Words go [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cherylmelody.com/2009/12/10/emotionalintelligence/</link>
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