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So why on earth do we so often signal the opposite? Literally and figuratively, we send the message that they’re bothering us, that they’re a distraction, a burden, annoying. As Evelyn McDonnell writes in her fascinating book The World According to Joan Didion , Didion’s daughter Quintana Roo once wrote down a list of her mother’s sayings. They were: “Brush your teeth,” “Brush your hair,” and “Shu...

Being a kid is tough. It’s tough because they’re learning— often by painful trial and error —an endless number of lessons about life. What they’re allowed to do and not. What happens when you touch something hot. How other people act . What feels good and what doesn’t. Plus they’re also in school learning academic knowledge too—math and science and reading and history. Well, here’s a piece of advi...

We have so many things we need to do as parents. There’s the logistics of it. The survival aspect of it (food and shelter). There’s the education we have to give them . There’s the experiences we want them to have. There’s the values and character we know need to be instilled . We’re not trying to raise well-behaved kids. **As we’ve said before, we’re not trying to raise kids at all. The whole poi...