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You don’t mean to be. You try really hard. You love them so much. You want everything to…
It would be wonderful if someone could tell you exactly what to do in every situation and how…
hen our kids mess up we say: Aren’t you a little old for that? And we have all…
The double standards are revealing and also a little sad. No one would ever refer to a mother…
We all feel a little self-conscious about it. Our kids don’t behave as well as we’d like. They…
Of course, you want to do everything you can for them. You want to help them. You want…
The tantrum. The whining about going to school. The punch that’s thrown. The slipping grades. The sneaking out….
These are challenging, uncertain times, no question. What’s at the root of it? How did we get here?…
You didn’t like rules when you were a kid. Your parents had too many. Your school was a prison of pointless, arbitrary ones—how you could…
There are lots of ways to read, ways that have improved the experience and opened up the world of literature to people who otherwise would…
You know your kids are good. You’ve seen their sweetness, their cuteness since the beginning. You’ve seen them try. You’ve seen them feel shame when…
You know now how brief it is. What a fleeting, wonderful thing it is. Youth. How flexible you were then. How much energy you had….
They’re loud. They’re messy. They’re expensive. They don’t listen. They’re also kids. It’s sort of the point. The late Paul Woodruff told a wonderful story…
Bruce Springsteen has three children: Evan, Jessica, and Sam. One of them is an Olympic-level equestrian (which can not have been a cheap or easy…
It can be hard in the moment to think of anything else. You have lunches to make. Practices to get to. Birthday parties to plan….
There are lots of different trappings of wealth. A big house. A nice car. Exotic vacations. First-class flights? Private flights? Not everyone can afford these…
Most schools and most parents teach reading all wrong. They bully kids into doing it. They pressure them. They tell them, “Reading is what smart…
We spend so much time at the office, trying to get better at our jobs, trying to make a little more money, trying to climb…
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