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If You Lean On Someone Too Much, Someday You’ll Fall Over

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If You Lean On Someone Too Much, Someday You’ll Fall Over

How to teach kids the critical faculty of resilience and the ability to stand unassisted on their own two feet

Larry G. Maguire
Oct 12, 2019
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If You Lean On Someone Too Much, Someday You’ll Fall Over

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How to teach kids the critical faculty of resilience and the ability to stand unassisted on their own two feet

My eldest son was stuck. He had a maths problem that he couldn’t solve. Or rather, he had a maths problem he believed he couldn’t solve. It was something related to the order of operations of integers (snore-fest).

I…

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