In a lovely NY Times article, Jancee Dunn described a conversation with her sister, a teacher, ‘“What do you do when a kid is emotionally overwhelmed?’ I asked. Many teachers at her school, she told ...

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We, in the United States and many other Western nations, more often think of children as sources of extra work than as sources of help. We often think that trying to get our children to help us at ...