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#4: Go High. For Real.
#4: Go High. For Real. Michelle Obama said to “Go High”. What does that mean?
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#21: It’s More than Words
#21: It’s More than Words. Someone recently claimed: “It’s just words.” Is that true?
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Aside: Drills
I normally love hearing all about your day. You chatter animatedly about everything you’ve done in your classroom with very little prodding. I know that this font of information will dry up very soon and I’ll have to reach in and pull it out, so I try to appreciate it while I can. The other…
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#87: We’re all figuring it out
It is one of the most annoying questions EVER devised. You probably dread gatherings with adults you haven’t seen recently. Or worse, with folks you’ve never met. But as soon as they start with “So…”, you internally brace yourself for it. “What do you want to be when you grow up?” they ask. It’s a…
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Aside : Football
Over the last couple of years you’ve noticed that on certain Sundays when the days start to get shorter Daddy will spend a couple of hours occasionally on the couch watching a game. Not every Sunday and not all the time, but often enough for you to get curious. “Football” it’s called. You don’t really…
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#14 Watch the Labels
Right now it seems the question you like to ask whenever we watch a TV show or movie is: “Is he a good guy or a bad guy?” There is a strong inclination for you to separate the world between Black and White. “Bad” and “Good”. “Right” and “Wrong”. “Smart” vs “Dumb”. For us parents, we cater to that…
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#5 How to Change a Tire
First, get to the safest area possible. Try not to drive on the rim if you can, because replacing that can get expensive. But if you have to, do what you need to do. Call AAA. Call someone to let them know where you are. If AAA is going to take a long time, or…
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#89 Feel what it’s like to live inside your body
It’s tiring to keep up with you, sometimes. Your energy can be wound so tight, brimming with tension and hype that I can see your molecules vibrating in place like a hummingbird. But what your body is doing and what your brain is doing aren’t always in sync. At this age so much of your energy is…
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#67: Get lost
Chances are you will not know a time when you can’t look at the nearest device/car/computer/phone and know exactly – to the nearest foot – where you are on this earth. You will never not be prompted with turn by turn directions to wherever you want to go – whether it is around the block…
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#49: Be Thankful
“What do you say?” We would ask you chidingly, whenever anyone gave you something. “Thank you,” you’d say dutifully, eyes downward, waiting anxiously to play with whatever toy/book/food object that you were given. You’d say it (often after already grabbing whatever it was that was offered to you), and you’d scamper off. As you got…