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Parents Please: Provide the Facts not the Horoscope

“Look out,” she screamed, “you’re going to fall and bang your head, and then it will crack open,and blood will go everywhere, and it’ll really hurt and I can’t cope when you’re hurt, and it’ll be a huge mess to clean up, and … Continue reading

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Self-Assured Children and Managed Risk

Real life is about managing risk. Not avoiding it. Yet every day we all encounter people overcome with anxiety at the mere thought of making a mistake; being hurt; embarrassing themselves; or getting IT wrong.  (Whatever IT is.) Maybe, we’re one of them. … Continue reading

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