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The more we want our children to be (1) lifelong learners, genuinely excited about words and numbers and ideas, (2) avoid sticking with what’s easy an...more

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Like any other tool for facilitating the completion of a questionable task, rewards offer a "how" answer to what is really a "why" question.

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Good tennis players are those who beat other tennis players, and a good shot during play is one the opponent can't return. But that's not a truth abou...more

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How well you do things should be incidental, not integral, to the way you regard yourself.

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Historians have shown that "parents in the Middle Ages worried about their kids no less than we worry about ours today," and by the nineteenth century...more

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Many of our elected officials have virtually handed the keys to our schools over to corporate interests. Presidential commissions on education are com...more

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In short, with each of the thousand-and-one problems that present themselves in family life, our choice is between controlling and teaching, between c...more

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My advice is to make a point of apologizing to your child about something at least twice a month. Why twice a month? I don't know. It sounds about rig...more