Stop Making Everything Perfect for Your Kid
Children need to fail sometimes
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4 min readJun 3, 2016
There was a kid running at the neighborhood pool the other day. The pool attendant asked him to walk, as pool attendants have done since pools existed. The boy’s dad — a big-chested, serious kind of guy — came over to the attendant and told him that, as the child’s father, he’s the only one who gets to tell his kid what to do. If the…
