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the gift of time

What if you could give your child the ultimate gift?
What would it be?
A Game Boy? 
No.
An iPod?
No.
How about an Xbox 360 (a.k.a. “The Death Of Literacy”)?
Good Heavens, no!
The ultimate gift is Time. I’m not referring to the pop culture myth of “quality time” that happens when parents occasionally decide to pay an extra 15 minutes of [...]

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masterly inactivity

Parents should trust themselves more. Everything is not done by restless endeavour. The mere blessed fact of the parental relationship and of that authority which belongs to it, by right and by nature, acts upon the children as do sunshine and shower on a seed in good soil. But the fussy parent, the anxious parent, [...]

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